AMERICAN INDIAN EXPERIENCE IN THE 20THCENTURY
INDIGENOUS AND AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES
| Instructor: Lucia Orth, J.D. | Course: AIS-312 |
| Credits: 3 | |
| Office: | Semester: Spring 2019 |
| Phone: 785 979 2014 | Location: Parker |
| Office Hours: contact me | Meeting time: Tues/Thurs 2:30 |
| Email: lucia979orth@gmail.com |
CourseDescription and Objectives:
This course surveys the history ofAmerican Indians during the twentieth century. Through rigorous analysis this course will examine the development ofnew cultural, social, economic, and political forms that create an AmericanIndian identity.
Course Expectations:
Students are expected to make a commitment to attend and participate each class period (see attendance policy below). It is imperative that students be familiar with assigned readings before each class begins. In-class discussions will be used to critically engage the major themes and topics of the course; students may be asked to break into groups and discuss the material assigned and how it relates to primary source material. Additionally, students are expected to devote time outside of the classroom to conduct research for their writing assignments. Students are expected to devote 3 hours of study time outside of class for every 1 hour in class.
Course Requirements: There will be 3 exams during the semester, which will be based on the readings and course lectures, with no final exam. The exams may consist of multiple choice questions, terms to be identified, and essay questions. Each exam will count 100 points. There also will be two response essays, which will be based upon the readings and lectures. Students are required write a long essay/ paper during this course, which may be based on edits of your earlier response essays — this due in April. Details tbd
TOTAL POINTS FOR THE CLASS WILL BE 550: 300 for the 3 exams, 100 for attendance and participation, and 30 points for January 31 quiz, and 120 total for reflection/response essays leading to final essay.
Prerequisite:AIS-110 History of North American Indian Tribes
Required Texts — AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2015); and INDIANS IN UNEXPECTED PLACES, by Phil J. Deloria (2004)
COURSEOBJECTIVES
1. To highlight the diversity of experiences of Indigenouspeoples, societies, and traditions in the United States during the twentiethcentury.
2. To appreciate the cultural retention effortsof various Native Nations while facing the onslaught of assimilationism.
3. To understand the implications andconsequences of U.S. Indian polices.
4. To develop and apply research skills,especially through the use of historical evidence and resources.
5. To strengthen critical thinking acumenthrough a variety of written work and oral work.
COURSELEARNING OUTCOMES
Uponsuccessful completion of the course, students will be able to:
1.1.Recognize broad cultural areas encompassing both similar and divergent peoplesand trends.
1.2.Identify the role of Native peoples in the development of modern America andthe United States.
(These outcomes pair with ObjectiveOne, above.)
2.1.Understand the basic aspects of cultural sovereignty interwoven in tribalcommunities.
2.2.Point out core beliefs and/or practices common in their own tribe(s) andothers.
(These outcomes pair with ObjectiveTwo, above.)
3.1.Analyze the importance of key treaties and policies affecting both indigenouspeoples and outsiders.
3.2.Analyze the successes and failures of federal legislation aimed at tribes.
(These outcomes pair with ObjectiveThree, above.)
4.1.Distinguish between primary and secondary historical sources and understandtheir appropriate use.
4.2.Recognize the value of both oral and written sources for research andhistorical insight.
4.3.Write an original research document and/or essay.
(These outcomes pair with ObjectiveFour, above.)
5.1.Identify Indigenous values inherent in origin stories, rhetoric, or otherNative oral sources.
5.2. Parse both Native and non-Native perspectives through treatment in key documents, etc.
ClassSchedule / Syllabus
SCHEDULE/SYLLABUS, THROUGH FEB 14
PART1 OF COURSE – FEDERAL INDIAN POLICY
Week 1: Class Introduction& American Indians and Boarding Schools
January 15: Introductions
January 17: Read: Supplemental Report On Indian Education, handout from Documents ofUnited States Indian Policy, Prucha.
View via links on WordPress site haskell312americanindianexperiencepage entitled “Media – Boarding Schools, view all 5 for class”
Begin reading WordPress page“Intellectual Leaders”
Week 2: We Will Be IndiansAll Our Lives
January 22: Read: Winona LaDuke, from Recovering The Sacred –handout of pages 67 to 86, Imperial Anthropology
Read: H. Craig Miner, from The Corporation And The Indian, handout of pages 208 – 211
Read: PeterIverson, from We Are Still Here, handout Chapter 1
January 24: Read: REQUIRED BOOK 1 FOR COURSE: Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, pp 45 – 77
Week 3: Federal Indian Policy; U.S. ImperialismAt Home and Abroad
January 29: Read: Chapters 6 and 7, pp 95 to 132, fromAn Indigenous Peoples’ History
Begin reading: Link page at this WordPress site to Vine Deloria, Custer Died For Your Sins — Preface and Chapter 1
January 31: Read: handout “A History of Federal Indian Policy,” from Pevar, The Rights Of Indians And Tribes, Fourth Edition.
THERE WILL BE A 20 Minute QUIZ ON THIS HANDOUT ON JAN 31, REVIEW DATES AND ERAS
Also Read for January 31: Chapter 9, “U.S. Triumphalism and Peacetime Colonialism, pp 162 to 17, from An Indigenous Peoples’ History
Week 4: A Nation Is Coming
February 5: Read:Chapter 10, pp. 178 to 197, from AnIndigenous Peoples’ History
Read: online or at WordPress site: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights Human Rights (1948)
February 7: Read: Chapter 11, pp. 197 to 218, from An Indigenous Peoples’ History; and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_on_the_Rights_of_Indigenous_Peoples
find online or at this WordPress site
Week 5: Markets, (Christian) Missions, theMarshall Doctrine of Discovery – spiraling DNA
and THERE WILL BE AN in-class review and questions for EXAM 1
February 12: Read: Intro pp 1to 14 and Conclusion, pp. 218 to 236, from An IndigenousPeoples’ History;
February14: IN-CLASSEXAM NUMBER 1 OF 3, OVER MATERIALS COVERED
https://blog.oup.com/2012/08/doctrine-discovery-indigenous-peoples/
PART 2 OF COURSE – TOPICS
To be covered: environment, food as medicine/health, native representation, state and federal prisons and public law 280, music and identity, climate change and indigenous peoples, with a topic per class or week. Final schedule and readings coming soon.
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