Cultural World Views of
Indigenous America
Ethnic Studies 110 Ross
Frank
Winter 2014 Office:
SSB 227
TU, TH 9:30-10:50 Office
Hours:
Sols 111 Wed.
1:00-3:00,
Thu.
noon-2:00
E-mail: rfrank@ucsd.edu Phone: 534-6646
Course evaluation will be based on blog entries on course
topics, an in-class midterm presentation, a final exam project, and in-class
discussions throughout the quarter.
Assignment grades will be distributed: attendance and participation during
in-class activities 20%;
blog entries 25%,
midterm 25%; and final 30%.
All
students must attend all lectures and read the assigned materials in order to
complete this course. There will be
frequent discussions in class and with guest presenters during which you are
encouraged to participate. We will
also relate current American Indian/Indigenous news items and events to the
past. You have a responsibility to
create an environment conducive to learning during lectures and discussion, and
to abide by the UCSD Principles
of Community. Attendance, participation in discussions
held throughout the quarter, and blog entries will count for a major portion of
your class grade. The assignments
tied to the dynamic progression of the course cannot be made up.
A short
essay will be due on Tuesday, January 21.
Details will be provided in class.
For the assignment
relating to the midterm and final, you will have a choice of reading:
The Death of Bernadette Left Hand by Ron Querry
Power by Linda Hogan,
Watermelon Nights, by Greg Sarris
Garden in the Dunes, by Leslie Marmon Silko
Drowning in Fire, by Craig S. Womack
Erased Faces, by Graciela Limn
A description of
the books will be given in class to help you decide.
Please
feel free to consult with me as you make your book choice.
Note: In fairness to the other students in the class, I
generally do not accept late assignments except in extreme and properly
documented circumstances. I am,
however, willing to help to resolve difficulties that you might have with the
essay or the deadline as long as you speak to me about the matter before the assignment due date.
Weekly Assignments
Each
student is responsible for two postings on a class-wide blog each week: http://ethn110blog.wordpress.com. Each posting will be related to
a class session. Posts are 200-300 words in length. In addition, participation credit
will be given to those who respond to other classmates blog posts.
A short essay related to the content of Week 2
will be due in class at the beginning of Week 3. Instructions provided in class.
Midterm Assignment:
You
will have group assignments pertaining to your book of choice for both the
midterm and the final. You will
also write an individual second essay on your book of choice.
For the
midterm, you will be responsible for reading one-third/one-half of the book.
With the members of your group, you will create a Prezi
that provides 1) a short summary of the storyline that you have read so far,
including the relationships of the characters to each other and 2) possible
ways of understanding connections between the book and the course content.
All
groups will post their Prezi to the class blog and
respond to a different groups presentation. All groups will comment on which themes
and connections are similar and different to their Prezi
and will pose questions and offer critical and
constructive suggestions to the Prezi authors.
Final Assignment:
For the
final, you will be responsible for completing the entire book and:
A) An
individual essay assignment that critically evaluates at least two readings and
one media assignment. The essay
will explain how the theory, methodology, and content of these course materials
can be used to make connections to the book you are reading for the final group
project.
B) With
your assigned group you will add to your Midterm Prezi
by: 1) providing a short summary of the entire storyline and character
relationships to each other; 2) add and revise connections between the book and
the content of the entire course. You will post the group Prezi
on the class-wide blog and the group will present it during regularly scheduled
final exam time.
The following required
materials have been ordered for the course and are available at the UCSD Bookstore. They have also been placed on reserve in
Geisel Library:
James Wilson. The Earth Shall Weep : A History of Native
America. New York: GrovePress, 1999.
Delfina Cuero, and Florence Connolly Shipek. Delfina Cuero : Her
Autobiography, an Account of Her Last Years, and Her Ethnobotanic
Contributions. CA: Ballena Press, 1991.
Gilbert L. Wilson. Buffalo Bird Womans Garden. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society; 1987.
Wait for instructions in class before purchasing one of the
following:
Ron Querry. The Death of Bernadette Left Hand. New York: Bantam; 1995.
Graciela Limn. Erased Faces. Houston: Arte Publico
Press; 2001.
Leslie Marmon Silko. Garden
in the Dunes. New York: Simon & Schuster; 1999.
Linda Hogan. Power. New York: Norton; 1998.
Greg Sarris. Watermelon
Nights. New York: Penguin; 1998.
Craig S. Womack. Drowning in Fire. Tucson: U. Arizona Press; 2001
Other Ethnic Studies 110 readings – articles, documents, maps,
video and other media, and relevant web sites – are available from the
course website at TED/WebCT.
PART I INTRODUCTION & CONCEPTS
WEEK 1 JANUARY 7 Introduction
to Cultural World Views of Native Americans
Wilson, Angela Cavender. American Indian
History or Non-Indian Perceptions of American Indian History?,
in AIQ.
JANUARY
9 Building
a Framework for Learning
Wilson,
Angela Cavender. Grandmother to Granddaughter:
Generations of Oral History in a Dakota Family, Native and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians.
Wilson, James. The Earth Shall Weep. xv-xxix.
LaDuke, Winona. What is Sacred?, in Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and
Claiming.
Coulthard, Glen. Place against Empire: Understanding Indigenous
Anti-Colonialism, in Affinities.
Multimedia: Tuhiwai Smith, Linda and Eve
Tuck - Decolonizing Methodologies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZXQC27tvg
PART II SOUTHWEST: Ro Grande Valley Pueblos, Hopi and
Navajo
WEEK 2 JANUARY 14
Wilson,
James. The Earth Shall Weep, 3-40.
Stirling, Matthew W.
Excerpt from Origin Myth of Acoma
and Other Records.
Wolfe,
Patrick. Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the
Native, in JGR.
Multimedia: Chevez,
Leonel Antonio- Maya Lenca
Storytelling: Into the Next Millennium (Creation Story) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCQHUrhyzvc
JANUARY 16 The
Mythic Pueblo Center
BEGIN READING YOUR BOOK CHOICE
FOR GROUP PREZI MIDTERM EXAM AND SECOND ESSAY FINAL EXAM
Wilson, James. The Earth Shall Weep.
171-213.
Cushing, Frank Hamilton. Selections: Zui Folk Tales.
Multimedia:
Itam Hakim Hopiit, by Victor Masayesva (Hopi)
WEEK 3 JANUARY
21 Navajo
Creation and World View
SHORT ESSAY DUE AT BEGINNING OF
CLASS
Goeman, Mishuana. (Re)Mapping
Indigenous Presence on the Land in Native
Womens
Literature, in AQ.
Zolbrod, Paul G. Excerpt from Din bahan: The Navajo Creation Story.
Deloria, Vine, Jr. Low Bridge, Everybody Cross. Red Earth, White Lies.
JANUARY
23 Indigenous Cultural
Survival & Repatriation
Hopi Sale Files
Ferguson, T. J., Roger Anyon,
and Edmund J. Ladd. Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to
Complex Problems in Mihesuah, Devon A. Repatriation reader: who owns American
Indian remains.
Bodine, John. Taos Blue Lake
Controversy. JES.
Multimedia: Broken Rainbow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5z8OgMfXXc
Multimedia: Star Wars translated into Navajo:
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/20/193496493/translated-into-navajo-star-wars-will-be
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/03/188676416/Star-Wars-In-Navajo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BuULnMgRjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzWp81b3ENA
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/05/02/navajo-star-wars-casting-starts-tomorrow-149160
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/07/03/see-11-minutes-star-wars-dubbed-navajo-150279
WEEK 4 JANUARY
28 Survival and Change
Ortiz, Alfonso, Dynamics of Pueblo Cultural
Survival, in DeMallie, Raymond J., and Alfonso
Ortiz. North American Indian Anthropology
Bodine, John. The Taos Blue Lake
Ceremony. AIQ.
PART III GREAT LAKES: Algonkian
Peoples and Neighbors
JANUARY
30 French-Algonkian Contact, Algonkian
Cultural Change
and World View
Wilson, James. The Earth Shall Weep.
43-71.
LaDuke, Winona. White
Earth: A Lifeway in the Forest, in All
Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life.
Multimedia: LaDuke, Winona - Restoring
Indigenous Communities and the Ecological Balance:
WEEK 5 FEBRUARY 4 French-Algonkian Contact, Algonkian
Cultural Change and World View
MIDTERM GROUP PREZI DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS
Wilson,
James. The Earth Shall Weep.
72-131.
Hickerson, Harold. The Feast of the Dead Among the Seventeenth
Century Algonkians of the Upper Great Lakes.
Multimedia:
LaDuke, Winona -- TEDxTC -
Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNlel72eQc
FEBRUARY 6 The Midwiwin
of the Ojibwa as an Adaptive System
RESPONSE TO GROUP
PREZI DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS
Deloria, Vine. Thinking in Time and Space, in God is Red.
Hoffman, W. J. The Midewiwin or Grand Medicine Society of the Ojibway.
Multimedia: Independent Lens: We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean
PART IV GREAT
PLAINS: Plains Indian Cultures
WEEK 6 FEBRUARY
11 Forming a New
Cultural Configuration - Lakota Myth and Meaning: Looking for the Lakota World
View
Wilson, James. The Earth Shall Weep.
247-285.
Jahner, Elaine A., Transitional
Narratives and cultural continuity.
Walker, James R. Lakota Myth.
DeMallie, Raymond J. These Have No Ears: Narrative
and the Ethnohistorical Method.
Wilson, Waziyatawin
Angela. Decolonizing the 1862 Death Marches.
Multimedia: We Shall Remain:
Episode 5 Wounded Knee
FEBRUARY
13 The Ghost Dance, Revivalism, and Cultural
Change
Walker, James R. Lakota Belief and Ritual.
Wilson, Gilbert L., ed. Buffalo Bird Womens Garden.
(selection)
Peyer, Bernd C. The Singing Spirit: Early
Short Stories by NAI.
Terrance, Laura L. Resisting Colonial Education: Zitkala-Sa and Native Feminist Archival Refusal, in QSE
WEEK 7 FEBRUARY
18 Identity, Adaptation,
and Survivance
Wilson,
James. The Earth Shall Weep.
289-329.
Cruz, Louis Esme et. al. Puowinuel
Prayers: Readings from North Americas First Transtextual
Script, in GLQ
Tallbear, Kimberly. Genomic Articulations of Indigeneity, in SSS.
Lyons, Scott Richard. Identity Crisis, in X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent
The Baby Veronica Case
Multimedia: Black Indians:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EhobHu_Xq0
PART V CALIFORNIA
and Beyond
FEBRUARY
20 Religion in Native
American California, the Mission Era,
Wilson,
James. The Earth Shall Weep.
214-246.
Haas, Lisbeth/Tac, Pablo. Indian
Life and Customs at Mission San Luis Rey.
Cuero,
Delfina and Florence Connolly Shipek. Delfina Cuero : Her Autobiography.
Miranda, Deborah. Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California, in GLQ
Multimedia: SCIENCED! - Haavakam: The
Importance of Shell in Gabrielino Tongva
Culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX3YiCeCewI
WEEK 8 FEBRUARY
25 Cultural
Configuration of Native California
Bean, Lowell John. Power
and its Applications in Native California.
Kroeber, Theodora. The Inland Whale.
10-38, 153-167
Hinton, Leanne. Flutes of fire :
essays on California Indian languages.
21-47, 61-93
FEBRUARY 27 Native Californian Destruction and
Revival
Landau, Patricia M. & D.
Gentry Steele.
Why Anthropologist Study Human Remains, in AIQ.
Rockafellar, Nancy &
Orin Starn. Ishis Brain, in Current Anthropology.
Multimedia:
Ishi,
The Last Yahi
Multimedia: Kennewick Man: http://anth.alexanderstreet.com/view/1779491
WEEK 9 MARCH
4 Indigenous
Pacific
Najita, Susan. "Introduction," in Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific.
Hall,
Lisa Kahaleole. "Strategies of Erasure: U.S.
Colonialism and Native Hawaiian Feminism," in AQ.
Kauanui, J. Kehaulani. "Racialized Beneficiaries", Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity
Teaiwa, Teresia. "Real Natives Dont French Kiss (When Theyre Making Love): Towards a Nuclear
(and French Kissing) Free Pacific," in Dreadlocks
Multimedia: FILM RECOMMENDED
BY MAILE
PART VI REFLECTIONS:
Bio-(neo)colonialism, Native thought, sovereignty, and
settler colonialism
MARCH
6
Tsosie, Rebecca. "Indigenous Peoples
and Epistemic Injustice: Science, Ethics, and Human Rights," in WLR
Reardon, Jenny and Kimberly TallBear. " 'Your DNA is Our History': Genomics, Anthropology, and the Construction of
Whiteness," in Current Anthropology.
Tallbear, Kim. Native American DNA. Chapter 1, "Racial
Science, Blood, and DNA".
Gulliford, Andrew. Chapter 5 "Living
Tribal Cultures", in Sacred objects and
sacred places : preserving tribal traditions.
Multimedia: The Leech and the Earthworm
WEEK 10 MARCH 11
Cook-Lynn,
Elizabeth. "Americas Oldest Racism."
Wilson,
Angela Cavender.
"Reclaiming Our Humanity: Decolonization and the Recovery of Indigenous
Knowledge," in Indigenizing the Academy.
Grande, Sandy. "Red Land, White Power and "American Indian Geographies of Identity and Power", in Red Pedagogy.
MARCH
13
Smith,
Andrea. "American Studies without America: Native Feminisms and the
Nation-state," in AQ.
Smith,
Andrea. "Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity
of Settler Colonialism," in GLQ.
Tuck,
Eve and K. Wayne Yang. "Decolonization is not a Metaphor," in Education and Society.
Multimedia:
Harold of Orange
Multimedia:
Andrea Smith at Women's Worlds 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCZY78dbiD0
FINAL EXAM: TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 8-11AM IN CLASS PRESENTATIONS
© 2014, Ross Frank