History of Native Americans in the United States (to about 1890)
Ethnic Studies 112A /
History (US) 108A Ross
Frank
Winter 2012 Office: SSB 227
Tu-Th 2 –3:15 PM Office Hours:
PCYNH 121 Tues.
3:30-5:00 PM,
e-mail: Th.
11-1 & by appt.
rfrank@ucsd.edu Phone: (858) 534-6646
Course evaluation will be based on a midterm, participation in class discussions, 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%.
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 during lectures.
Note: Do not purchase any books before reading this section very carefully!
A collection of readings and other resources is available from the course website at TED/WebCT.
The following required books have been ordered for this course by UCSD bookstore:
Colin G. Calloway, First Peoples: a documentary survey of American Indian History, 4th edition.
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 |
Leslie Marmon Silko, Garden in the Dunes |
James Welch, Fool's Crow |
These books above have been placed on 2 hour library reserve at Geisel.
SYLLABUS (Click here to download pdf file)
The reading(s) that follows each week's heading are to be read before that class meeting. Longer reading assignments have been repeated over the period given to complete them. Be prepared to refer to the reading material in class.
WEEK 0 SEPTEMBER 27 Introduction to History of Native Americans
Colin G. Calloway. First Peoples, a documentary survey of Native American history, Introduction, 1-13 (pages corresponding to 4tht edition).
Angela Cavender Wilson. "American Indian History or Non-Indian Perceptions of American Indian History?" 23-26. TED/WebCT.
Maps 1, 3, 8 General maps. TED/WebCT
WEEK 1 OCTOBER 2 Myth as History and History as Myth
Calloway. First Peoples, 78-91.
Angela Cavender Wilson. "Grandmother to Granddaughter: Generations of Oral History in a Dakota Family." 27-36. TED/WebCT.
Hurtado & Iverson. Documents 2-5, 20-28 and Document 2, 58-59. TED/WebCT.
OCTOBER 4 The Pre-contact World in the Southwest
Calloway. First Peoples, 14-39 and 65-71.
WEEK 2 OCTOBER 9 Contact and Colonization in the Southwest
Calloway. First Peoples, 91-95.
Hurtado & Iverson. Document 3 , 59-60 and Documents 1-2, 94-98. TED/WebCT.
Stirling, Matthew W. Excerpt from Origin Myth of Acoma and Other Records. 1-21, 118-119, plates 1-5, figure 1. TED/WebCT.
Maps: 2 Present Pueblo Indian Towns and 40 Indian Reservation in CO. NM, & TX. TED/WebCT
OCTOBER 11 Indians, Missions, and the late Colonial Spanish Empire
Calloway. First Peoples, 198-201.
Hurtado & Iverson. Documents 3-4, 98-104 and Documents 1-2, 229-230. TED/WebCT.
Ross Frank. "'They conceal a malice most refined': Controlling Social and Ethnic Mobility in Late Colonial New Mexico." 77-94 TED/WebCT.
Steven W. Hackel. "Sources of Rebellion: Indian Testimony and the Mission San Gabriel Uprising of 1785." 643-669 TED/WebCT.
Calloway. First Peoples, 95-102.
Hurtado & Iverson. Document 4, 60-61 and Document 3-5, 138-142.
Carol Devens. "Separate Confrontations: Gender as a Factor in Indian Adaptation to European Colonization in New France." TED/WebCT.
OCTOBER 18 Destruction of Huronia and new French Trade Empire
Calloway. First Peoples, 122-133.
Bruce Trigger. "Early Native North American Responses to European Contact: Romantic Versus Rationalist Interpretations." 1195-1215. TED/WebCT.
Harold Hickerson. "The Feast of the Dead Among the Seventeenth Century Algonkians of the Upper Great Lakes." 81-107. TED/WebCT.
WEEK 4 OCTOBER 23 Contact and Colonization in the Eastern Woodlands
Calloway. First Peoples, 54-64, 102-111, and 132-142.
Hurtado & Iverson. Documents 5-6, 61-63.
Karen O. Kupperman. 'English Perceptions of Treachery, 1583-1640: The Case of the American 'Savage'." The Historical Journal 20:2 (1977): 263-287. TED/WebCT.
Jill Lepore. "Dead-Men-Tell-No-Tales – John Sassamon and the Fatal Consequences of Literacy." 479-512. TED/WebCT.
OCTOBER 25 King Phillip's War and Dynamics of Eighteenth Century Culture Change
Calloway. First Peoples, 152-198.
Hurtado & Iverson. Documents 1-2, 135-138 and Documents 4-5, 140-142.
Gregory Evans Dowd. "Thinking and Believing: Nativism and Unity in the Ages of Pontiac and Tecumsah." 309-335. TED/WebCT.
WEEK 5 OCTOBER 30 MIDTERM EXAMINATION
NOVEMBER 1 Indian Policy for a New Republic
Calloway. First Peoples, 218-262.
Hurtado & Iverson. Documents 1-5, 164-170 and Documents 1-3, 200-203.
Francis Paul Prucha. Documents of United States Indian Policy, #1-3, 13-17 TED/WebCT.
Begin reading your choice from the
books listed for your written assignment.
WEEK 6 NOVEMBER 6 United States, Exploration, and the "Release of Energy"
Read book for written assignment.
Calloway. First Peoples, 274-285, 299-304, and 320-324.
Michelle Daniel. "From Blood Feud to Jury System; the Metamorphosis of Cherokee Law from 1750-1840." 97-125. TED/WebCT.
Kenneth Penn Davis. "Chaos in Indian Country: The Cherokee Nation, 1828-1835." 129-147. TED/WebCT.
Maps 40 & 41 Territorial Expansion I & II. TED/WebCT
NOVEMBER 8 "Civilization" and Removal: Horns of a Dilemma
Calloway. First Peoples, 286-298 and 304-319.
Hurtado & Iverson. Documents 4-5, 203-205.
Prucha. Documents, TED/WebCT, numbers 6, 39-44.
Donna L. Akers. "Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective." 63-76. TED/WebCT.
WEEK 7 NOVEMBER 13 The First Wave: Going West Before the Civil War
Read book for written assignment.
Calloway. First Peoples, 332-341 and 366-369.
Hurtado & Iverson. Documents 4-6, 231-238.
Map 43 European Settlement. TED/WebCT
Robert F. Heizer. Selections from The Destruction of California Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press; 1993; v-xi, 219-229, 268-269. TED/WebCT.
NOVEMBER 15 The 2nd Wave: Taking Possession of the Indian West
Calloway. First Peoples, 369-384.
Hurtado & Iverson. Documents 1-6, 276-284.
James Riding In (Pawnee). "The United States v. Yellow Sun et. al. (The Pawnee People): A Case Study of Institutional and Societal Racism and U.S. Justice in Nebraska from 1850s to 1870s." Wicazo Sa Review 17:1 (2002): 13-41. TED/WebCT.
Prucha. Documents, TED/WebCT, numbers 79, 81-83.
WEEK 8 NOVEMBER 20 The Plains in 1860-1890s in History and Art
Read book for written assignment.
Calloway. First Peoples, 341-402 and 470-475.
Pekka Hämäläinen. "The Rise and Fall of Plains Indian Horse Cultures." 833-862. TED/WebCT.
Raymond J. DeMallie. "'These Have No Ears:' Narrative and the Ethnohistorical Method." 516-538. TED/WebCT
Map 41 Indian Reservations in ND, SD, NE, and Kansas. TED/WebCT
NOVEMBER 22 THANKSGIVING
WEEK 9 NOVEMBER 27 The Push for Assimilation: Religion and Culture , Privatizing the Reservation
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT DRAFTS DUE (rewrite option only)
Read book for written assignment.
Calloway. First Peoples, 412-469.
Hurtado & Iverson. Documents 2-3, 317-319 and Document 1, 348-351.
Prucha. Documents, TED/WebCT, numbers 95-99 and 101-102
Leanne Hinton. Flutes of fire : essays on California Indian languages. Chapters 5 and 6: 60-93. TED/WebCT.
Jo Ann Ruckman. "Indian Schooling in New Mexico in the 1890s: Letters of a Teacher in the Indian Service." 36-69. TED/WebCT.
Map 37 Indian Reservations in California and Nevada. TED/WebCT
NOVEMBER 29 Understanding the Ghost Dance Movement and the "End of the Frontier"
James Mooney. Excerpt from: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. 19-45. TED/WebCT.
Map 49 Ghost Dance Religion, and Map 50 Wounded Knee. TED/WebCT
WEEK 10 DECEMBER 4 Narrating the Nation, Erasing the Indian
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT DUE (beginning of class)
Calloway. First Peoples, 202-207 and 263-266.
Prucha. Documents, TED/WebCT, numbers 104-107
Maps: 4, 6, 8, 10 (Indian population charts). TED/WebCT
DECEMBER 6 Surviving the Nineteenth Century
Rennard Strickland, and William M. Strickland. "Beyond the Trail of Tears: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Cherokee Survival." In Cherokee Removal : Before and After. 112-138. TED/WebCT.
LeDON A. Emenhiser. "A Peculiar Covenant: American Indian Peoples and the U.S. Constitution." 3-11. TED/WebCT.
(Please confirm place & time in Final Exam Schedule)
© 2012, Ross Frank