History of Native Americans in the United States, Part I (to about 1890)


Ethnic Studies 112A / History (US) 108A
Spring 2004
Peterson 102: MWF Noon - 1:50 PM

Ross Frank, Department of Ethnic Studies

Office: SSB 227
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-4:00 PM, Friday 10:00 AM - Noon, or by appointment (e-mail or phone).
Phone: (858) 534-6646
e-mail: RFRANK@Weber.ucsd.edu


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COURSE ORGANIZATION

Course evaluation will be based on a midterm, participation in discussion section, one written essay, and a final exam.  Assignment grades will be distributed: midterm 20%; written essay 35%;  final 35%;  and participation in class activities 10%.

 

COURSE OBLIGATIONS

All students must attend lectures, read the assigned materials, and finish all assignments in order to complete this course.  There will be general discussion in class in which you are encouraged to participate.  We will relate current American Indian news items and events to the past; items will be available daily from links on the course web site.  You have a responsibility to create an environment conducive to learning in section and during lectures.


ASSIGNED READING

Note: Do not purchase any books before reading this section very carefully!

The ES112 Reader is required and available in class during Week 1 and from Postal Plus, 4130 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, (858) 452-9933.

The following required books have been ordered for this course by Groundwork bookstore:

Hurtado, Albert L. & P. Iverson. Major Problems in American Indian History.
Colin G. Calloway, First Peoples: a documentary survey of American Indian History, 2nd edition.
Utley, Robert M. The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890.

In addition, you will choose one of the following for your written assignment. I will discuss the books in class to aid you in your choice:

Ella Cara Deloria, Waterlily.
Louis Owens. Bone Game

James Welch, Fool’s Crow

Leslie Marmon Silko,  Garden in the Dunes .

The reader and books above have been placed on 2 hour library reserve.


SYLLABUS

The reading(s) that follow each week heading are to be read before that class meeting. Longer reading assignments have been repeated over the period given to complete them.  This symbol • appears where the reading is first assigned.  Be prepared to refer to the reading material in class. 


Week:     [1]     [2]     [3]     [4]     [5]     [6]     [7]     [8]      [9]     [10]


 

WEEK 1

MARCH 29            Introduction to History of Native Americans

MARCH 31            FILM:  Itam Hakim Hopii

APRIL 2            Myth as History and History as Myth


WEEK 2

APRIL 5            The Pre-contact World in the Southwest

        APRIL 7            Contact and Colonization in the Southwest

APRIL 9            The Pueblo Revolt and the Spanish Reconquest


WEEK 3

APRIL 12           Indians, Missions, and the late Colonial Spanish Empire

APRIL 14           Contact and Colonization in the Great Lakes

APRIL 16            Destruction of Huronia and new French Trade Empire


WEEK 4

APRIL 19            Contact and Colonization in the Eastern Woodlands

       APRIL 21             King Phillip’s War and English Colonial Expansion

        APRIL 23             Dynamics of Eighteenth Century Culture Change


WEEK 5

APRIL 26            Indian Resistance, Transformation, and Survival

APRIL 28            MIDTERM EXAMINATION

APRIL 30            Indian Policy for a New Republic


WEEK 6

MAY 3               United States, Exploration, and the “Release of Energy”

        MAY 5            “Civilization” and Removal:  Horns of a Dilemma

       MAY 7            Dynamics of Early 19th Century Culture Change


WEEK 7

MAY 10            The First Wave:  Going West Before the Civil War

       MAY 12            Fragments of a National Indian Policy

       MAY 14            The 2nd Wave:  Taking Possession of the Indian West


WEEK 8

MAY 17            The Plains in 1860-1890s in History and Art

       MAY 19            The Push for Assimilation I:  Religion and Culture

       MAY 21            The Push for Assimilation II:  Education


WEEK 9

MAY 24            The Push for Assimilation III:  Privatizing the Reservation

MAY 26            Southern California Indian Reservations

        MAY 28            The Ghost Dance:  Revival, Adaptation, and Symbol


WEEK 10

MAY 31            NO CLASS — MEMORIAL DAY

        JUNE 2            Narrating the Nation, Erasing the Indian

         WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT DUE (beginning of class)

       JUNE 4            Surviving the Nineteenth Century

Final Exam Review Session, Friday, 6/4, 4:30-6:30PM - Peterson  103

Monday     JUNE 7     FINAL EXAM    11:30 AM – 2:30 PM
(BRING BLUE BOOKS. Please confirm place & time in Final Exam Schedule)

Study guide is available.


© 2004, Ross Frank, updated: 5/31/04.