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with the second half of our semester one of the big questions we're picking up on is what does it mean to be an american? all right who can claim to be an american? that's one of the big questions that's going to kind of? take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. so in upcoming weeks we're going to talk about, you know, immigrants. we're going to talk about kind of the progressive error and things like that. i think this is a good start point. to think about who is claiming american status. and what does that mean? so we're going to build from som...

be in a couple weeks and we're gonna use that as as a way to link. kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to it including the spanish-american war so our focus is we're kind of around that. we're thinking more kind of legal policy and issues and and such so the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way so our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with the second half of our semester one of the big questions we're picking up on is what does it mean to be an american? all right who can claim to be an american? that's one of the big questions ...

brown nelson is the author of saving yellowstone three cornered war ruin nation and trembling earth and we're so excited to have her with us today. so before i turn it over to her just a quick note we have sent out an email to everyone this morning that had just a great list of resources like a bibliography that megan had put together so you all should have received that by now. if not that link is posted in the chat. so that please join me in welcoming megan kate nelson. hi everyone. thank you so much. thank you nicole for that lovely introduction and to the smithsonian associates f...

our topic today is we're going to start with our discussion of native americans. this is one of two different discussions. we're having i want to make clear that we're not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture that's going to be in a couple weeks and we're gonna use that as as a way to link. kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to it including the spanish-american war so our focus is we're kind of around that. we're thinking more kind of legal policy and issues and and such so the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way so our start point is...

clear that we're not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture that's going to be in a couple weeks and we're gonna use that as as a way to link. kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to it including the spanish-american war so our focus is we're kind of around that. we're thinking more kind of legal policy and issues and and such so the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way so our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with the second half of our semester one of the big questions we're picking up on is what does it mean to ...