2025-2026 Undergraduate General Catalog

NAST 2101 Native American Social Systems

This course presents an "institutional" approach to Native American (specifically Lakota) society from pre-European contact to the present. It explores Lakota social institutions (political, economic, family, religious, and educational systems) prior to European contact, and examines the impact of non-Indian structures on the historical development of Lakota social institutions. This course fulfills the State of South Dakota's teacher certification requirement.

Credits

3

Core Requirements

 

Offered

Every Fall and Spring in person, online every Summer

Notes

Previously: NAST 320, SOCI 320