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__________________________________________________ American Indian Studies AMST/HIST
072D Tribal Studies: Cherokee Ethnohistory The purpose of this course is to introduce students to current scholarship on the Cherokees 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 through the perspectives of anthropology, history, and autobiography. Cultural diversity requirement. AMST
072C WESTERN NATIVE AMERICANS This is a lecture course on the history of Native American west of the Mississippi River . The course covers the period from before contact with Europeans to the end of the 19 th Century. Main themes include the Spanish invasion of the southwest, the impact of horse and trade on Plains Indians, the American invasion and reservation policy. The goal of the course is to use a wide variety of sources to put Indians in the center of their histories. Cultural diversity requirement. ANTH/FOLK
130 AMERICAN INDIAN SOCIETIES A broad survey of contemporary American Indian societies and cultures. Film, autobiography, literature, current issues, archaeological evidence and history help expose the multiple perspectives that characterize American Indian life today. A&S Non-Western/Comparative perspective, Social Sciences perspective, Cultural Diversity requirement.
AMST 70: Native Americans in Film Hollywood has made thousands of movies about Indians, most of which feature non-Indian actors and repeat the popular stereotypes of the “Noble” or “Ferocious” Savage. But in recent years, Indian actors, script writers, producers and directors have attempted to change the message. Refusing to pander to the stereotypical images of the American public, the new wave of Indian movies speak to Indian audiences about issues of concern to contemporary Indian people. This course explores this transformation in two ways. During the first half we will watch, read about, and discuss a series of films that can best categorized as “White Indian” movies. In these films, ranging Broken Arrow (1950) to Dances with Wolves (1990), non-Indian filmmakers argue that Native societies have attributes that non-Indians should find attractive and wish to embrace. In the second half, we will watch, read about, and discuss films such as Powwow Highway (1980) and Smoke Signals 1998). These movies were made by Indians and reflect the interest and anxieties of Native people. Both types of films were made as teaching tools and together they instruct us about what both non-Indian and Native film makers want us, the viewing audience, to believe about Indian history and culture. AMST 72E: Native America in the 20th Century 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 . ANTH 150. Archaeology of North America 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. GC Cultural Diversity requirement.A&S Non-Western Comparative Perspective. History 100: Race in Early America This discussion-based course will examine race as a social construct. How did the concept of race evolve in North America over the colonial and early national periods? Did Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans believe in "race" before the sixteenth century? How did their beliefs adapt to fit their experiences with one another? How did their experiences create race as we know it today?
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