2007 Fall Semester
American Indian Studies Courses
AMST 110 NATIVE NORTH AMERICA
THEDA PERDUE MW 12:00PM--12:50PM 201 Chapman Hall
Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America. An interdisciplinary introduction to Native American history and studies. The course uses history, literature, art, and cultural studies to study the Native American experience.
Recitation required.
AMST 231 EASTERN NATIVE AMERICANS
MICHAEL GREEN TR 9:30AM--10:45AM 103 Bingham
By using culture as a category of analysis, students will be able to gain a fuller understanding of why and how Indian societies changed, how Native people adapted to the European presence, and how the policies of interaction between Indians and non-Indians developed. The course focuses on the region east of the Mississippi River (the Woodlands) and covers the period from pre-Columbus to the end of removal in the 1840s. Content is a mixture of tribal histories, US policy history, and the interactions between them.
AMST 234 TRIBAL STUDIES CREEK ETHNOHISTORY
MICHAEL GREEN TR 2:00PM--3:15PM 204 Murphey
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to current scholarship on the Creeks and to the primary sources that scholars use in writing about them. It also seeks to familiarize students with ethnohistory, an interdisciplinary methodology developed specifically to study the Native American past. The course will help students achieve the following goals:
1. Understand a culture different from their own
2. Identify ways in which that culture changes
3. Appreciate the complexity of culture change
4. Recognize shifts in United States Indian policy
5. Become aware of current issues of importance to the Creek tribe
6. Analyze documents ethnohistorically
AMST 290: INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
TOL FOSTER MWF 1:00PM—1:50PM 431 Greenlaw
This survey course will set out the context of Native American cultural and historical life through the exploration of literature in a variety of genres. Native critical terms and concepts, as well as major historical moments in Native history, will be elucidated through oral literature, non-fiction, poetry, short stories, film, and novels, primarily drawn from the twentieth century, and from tribal groups of the continental United States. Although minor texts and authors will be included, major writers and texts will include Charles Eastman (Indian Boyhood), Leslie Marmon Silko (Storyteller), Pretty Shield (Pretty Shield), James Welch (Fools Crow), Thomas King (Green Grass, Running Water), and Sherman Alexie’s film The Business of Fancy Dancing.
ANTH 054 First Year Seminar - INDIANS' NEW WORLDS
MARGARET SCARRY TR 2:00PM--3:15PM 218 Hanes Art Center
The Indians' New Worlds: Southeastern Histories from 1200 to 1800. This course uses archaeological and historical scholarship to consider the histories of the Southern Indians from the Mississippian period to the end of the 18th century.
This course requires a recitation section.
ANTH 230 NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES
VALERIE LAMBERT TR 9:30AM--10:45AM 220 Peabody
This course is a broad survey of contemporary American Indian societies and cultures in the territory that is now known as the United States. Film, autobiography, literature, current issues, guest speakers, archaeological evidence and history help expose the multiple perspectives that characterize American Indian life today.
This course is designed to provide you with a working knowledge of American Indians and American Indian life in the United States. You will gain a background in American Indian history and policy; explore the tremendous diversity of American Indians, both within and across tribes; and have the opportunity to read selections written by American Indians of different tribes. This course is built around case studies and the analysis of current issues. Foundations are provided by an introductory section that addresses American Indian prehistory, the European colonial period and the American period of American Indian history and experience.
ANTH 350 ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
JOHN SCARRY TR 12:30PM--01:45PM 104 Murphey
The history of American Indian cultures from 10,000 BC to the time of the European colonization as reconstructed by archaeological research. Special emphasis on the eastern and southwestern United States.
HIST 070 First Year Seminar "Race at the Cotton States' Exposition"
THEDA PERDUE MW 3:00PM--4:15PM 306 Bingham
This seminar examines the ways in which the organizers of the Cotton States' Exposition, a worlds fair held in Atlanta in 1895, displayed race. By reading the Atlanta newspaper, we will follow African Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, in particular, at the fair and examine the struggle that often erupted over their representation in exhibits, on the midway, and in broader southern society. their representation in exhibits, on the midway, and in broader southern society.