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Fall Semester 2003
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The Indians New
Worlds: Southeastern Indian Histories from
1200 to 1800. Michael Green, 2 TR 204 Murphey
By AD 1200, most Southeastern Indians were farmers who lived in
societies ruled
by hereditary chiefs. After 1500, encounters between Indians and
Europeans changed the lives of all concerned, but the changes took
place in and were shaped by existing cultures. This seminar uses
reading, discussion, and lecture to examine the cultures and histories
of Southern Indians and to understand how European exploration and
colonization changed the world of Native Southerners. Students will
learn how ethnohistorians study and interpret Native American history.
Grades will be awarded for class participation, two short papers
and a final essay exam.
: 10 Native North
America.
Kathleen DuVal 11 MWF 104 Howell
This interdisciplinary course addresses the cultures, histories,
arts, and literature
of North American Indians. Lectures focus on general themes, and
small discussion sections explore how these themes apply to a particular
tribe.
Native American
Literature
Margaret O’Shaughnessey 10 MWF 318 Greenlaw
This course is largely a study of perceptions and perspectives.
It will examine first the well-documented European Views of Native
Americans presented in historical accounts and on artists’
canvases, views which tell us as much about Europeans as they do
about Natives. Then it will sample the explosion of perspectives
presented by Native American novelists, poets, short story writers,
and filmmakers whose voices, having been ignored for centuries,
eloquently provide alternative views of themselves and of America.
Eastern
Native Americans
Michael Green 11 TR 431 Greenlaw
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.
American
Indian Societies
Staff 10 MWF 306 Hanes
A broad survey of the traditional lifeways and customs of Native
North Americans, with some emphasis on the impact made by historical
contacts with Euro-Americans. Current issues affecting Native American
groups are also addressed.
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The Indian's
New Worlds: Southeastern Indian Histories
from 1200 -1800. Section 1: Michael Green and Margaret
Scarry 1:00-2:15 MW Murphey 111
By AD 1200, most Southeastern Indians were farmers who lived in
societies ruled by hereditary chiefs. After 1500, encounters between
Indians and Europeans changed the lives of all concerned, but the
changes took place in and were shaped by existing cultures. This
seminar uses reading, discussion, and lecture to examine the cultures
of
Southern Indians and to understand how European exploration and
colonization changed those cultures. Students will learn how
archaeologists and historians work, both separately and together,
to
study the past of Native societies. Grades will be awarded for class
participation, two short papers and a final essay exam.
Contemporary Native
North American Art Practice
Section 2 Kimowan McLain 2:00-04:50 MW Hanes Art Center 226
This seminar will provide a survey of Native North American art
beginning in
the late 1800s to the present. In addition to readings, lectures,
slides and
discussions, students will be asked to produce art studio projects.
Each
studio assignment will relate to trends found in the Indian art
world. For
example, students may be asked to make a creative document outlining
personal histories. GC Aesthetic/Fine Arts, Cultural Diversity.
Native America
in the 20th Century
Section 1: Michael Green 10:00-10:50 MWF Greenlaw 431
Not only is the 20th century one hundred years of complex and interesting
Native American history, it forms a discreet unit in the larger
history that
begins when Europeans arrived in North America. Beginning with the
allotment
policy of the 1890s, the 20th century history experience of Native
Americas
is characterized by the destruction and recreation of tribal societies.
Central to this story is the emergence of national Indian spokesmen
and
women who, as individuals and in organized groups, articulated visions
of
cultural distinctiveness, tribal sovereignty, economic development,
social
identity, and survival. At bottom, this history is rooted in the
problem of
making tribalism viable in the modern world. Its importance lies,
in part,
in the fact that this history is imbedded in Native America.
Literature and
Cultural Diversity, Native Americans in Literature
Section 1: Margaret O’Shaughnessey 10:00-10:50 MWF Greenlaw
319
Native American Literature. This course will examine first the
cultural perspectives Europeans brought to their encounters with
Native Americans and how these perspectives revealed themselves
in Literature and art. The second half will examine Native American
perspectives on the European and American strangers who filled their
land. Writers in the first half of the course will include early
American and European explorers, Indian captivity narratives and
fiction by J.F. Cooper. Native American selectives will include
speeches by famous chiefs and warriors, and contemporary writers
such as Sherman Alexie, James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris.
History of Native
Americans in the Southeast
Section 1: Theda Perdue 11:00-12:15 TR Greenlaw 431
This course focuses on the Native Southeast, a distinct culture
area characterized traditionally by horticulture, chiefdoms, matrilineal
kinship, and temple mounds and historically by contact with Euro-Americans
who equated slavery with race and land with wealth. While the course
pays some attention to the Native impact on black and white southerners,
the main objective is to learn more about the histories of the Native
peoples of the Southeast, the internal dynamics of their societies,
and the ways in which culture change affected them. Ethnohistory,
a methodology that fuses history and anthropology, provides the
best tool by which to accomplish this objective. By reading ethnohistorical
works, discussing the issues they raise, and writing three short
ethnohistorical papers, students will begin to learn how to use
this methodology.
Southwest
as Contact Zone: Reading "Chicana/o" and "Native
American" in Relation.
Section 2: Maria DeGuzman 11:00-12:15 TR Greenlaw 319
The Southwest: Southern California, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico,Texas,
perhaps Louisiana to the extent that half of it lies west of the
proverbial "frontier" dividing line of the Mississippi
River, and the interior provinces of New Spain and later the northern
provinces of Mexico which prior to the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo extended into present-day Utah. The US Southwest/Northern
Mexico borderzone was "home" to and "contact zone"
of the following Native American nations, among others: the Natchez,
the Comanche, the Apache, the Pueblo, the Navajo, the Hopi, the
Mohave, the Papago, the Tarahumara, the Chumash, the Cochimi, etc.
Additionally, the Southwest (as both the US and northern Mexico)
is populated by millions of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans many
of whom, particularly as politicized Chicanas/os, claim Aztec "heritage"
both as a genealogical and a cultural concept. The Aztecs were concentrated
in the central Valley of Mexico (quite far south of the US/Mexico
borderlands). However, their imperial dominion extended up into
the northern deserts of Mexico now the southwestern United States.
Although it is the Aztec civilization that has been emphasized in
much Chicana/o literature claiming indigenous "heritage,"
other native cultures are claimed as well, among them, many of those
cited above. Hence, for example, a recent academic conference "All
Women of Red Nations: Weaving Connections" includes writers
who identify as "Chicana" as well as artists and scholars
whose primary identifications are as "Native American"
and yet have Spanish names. Reading a diverse set of works by writers
of the Southwest we will explore connections between what have often
been treated as distinct literatures--Chicana/o and Native American.
These connections may be made by the writers themselves in their
invocation of shared space, motifs, and kinship.Commonality may
also take the form of shared struggle for socio-economic justice
and representation (both specifically legal and more broadly cultural)
against the ways in which "red" and "brown"
people are managed by the US government, stereotyped, and compelled
to cohabit in regions of increasingly scarce resources as a result
of legacies of occupation. Sometimes connections appear as their
seeming opposite, deliberate rejection and boundary-drawing and
we will inquire into the causes and effects of these kinds of territorialities.
Writers include, but are not limited to Paula Gunn Allen, Leslie
Marmon Silko, Joy Harjo, Ines Talamantez, Kathleen Alcala, Rudolfo
Acuña, Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo,
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Alfredo Vea, and Graciela Limón.
Course format is mini-lectures/much discussion. Assignments involve
4 1-2-page written responses to the readings, an oral presentation
& active class participation, and two essays (one 8 pages and
the second 10-12 pages). Assignments and grade distribution: 1.
4 1-2-page responses on different works that we read), 25% 2. Class
participation and one 20-minute presentation (on the course readings),
15% 3. One short essay, 8 pages , 25% 4. A second longer seminar
essay, approx. 10-12 pages, 35%. Crosslisted with INTS 82.1 (10
seats) and ENGL 90C.1 (15 seats).
Native North
American Cultures: American Indian Societies
Section 1: Valerie Lambert 2:00-3:15 MW Alumni 203
A broad survey of the traditional lifeways and customs of Native
North Americans, with some emphasis on the impact made by historical
contacts with Euro-Americans. Current issues affecting Native American
groups are also addressed.
Arts and Sciences non-Western/comparative perspective.
Archaeology
of North American Indians
Section 1: Vin Steponaitis 3:30-4:45 TR Manning 209
The history of American Indian cultures from 10,000 B.C. to the
time of the European invasion as reconstructed by archaeological
research. Special emphasis on the eastern woodlands and the Southwest.
Arts and Sciences non-Western/comparative perspective.
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