Cultural World Views of Native Americans
Take Home Final Examination         Ethnic Studies 110

This take home exam is due on Tuesday, June 10 by 2:30PM.  You may e-mail the exam in Word format to rfrank@ucsd.edu, or deliver the printed response to the Ethnic Studies Depart office on the 2nd floor of the Social Sciences building.

Exam questions:
Instructions Choose one essay from each of the three parts below.  Think about the structure of your essay and the major theme(s) that you want to emphasize in answering your chosen question before you begin writing.  It is important to make your arguments using specific examples drawn from the course materials.  Please cite your references as follows (reading/lecture/media, page # or date).


Part I.  Short Answer  (2 pages/350 words maximum, double-spaced - 20 points)
Instructions for Part I:  For one of the texts below, please analyze how it can be read for information that informs an understanding of the cultural world view of the particular people, place, and time.
a. Walker, James R. Walker, Lakota Myth.
b. Two of the stories assigned in Bernd C. Peyer, The Singing Sprit..
c. Two of the stories assigned in Theodora Kroeber,.  The Inland Whale.
d. Paul G. Zolbrod, excerpt from Diné bahanè: The Navajo Creation Story.

Part II.  Short Essay  (4 pages/1000 words maximum, double-spaced - 40 points)
a. Describe and evaluate at least three of the different kinds of sources used to approach Native American culture in this course.  What are their advantages and limitations?
b. Discuss continuity and change in the components of the world view of one of the Native American groups studied in this course.  Please use specific examples of aspects of native culture, and when, how and why they changed.
c. Compare and contrast at least three examples where Anglo-European interpretations of Native American culture have influenced or distorted aspects of native cultural world views.


Part III.  Essay  (5 pages/1300 words maximum, double-spaced - 40 points)
Instructions for Part III:  For each of these questions your answers must cover at least three of the four regions represented by the four Parts of this course:  Southwest, Great Lakes, Plains, and California.  Be sure to illustrate your points and themes with specific examples.
1. Describe the important similarities and differences in the cultural response of different Native American groups to the early period of white contact and colonization. 
2. Compare and contrast how the origin and other accounts of Native American peoples describe the basis for different world views?
3. Discuss the role and function of religious organization and ritual in expressing Native American cultural world views. 

IV.  Discussion, self-evaluation (optional)(please complete this last)
Instructions Please evaluate your general level of participation during clas.  Discussion accounts for 15% of your grade and general participation is a portion of that category.  Be honest in your evaluation.  If you would like to add comments of any kind about your discussion participation please do so in the space provided.  I will tend towards your self-evaluated grade as long as it reasonably reflects your work.

General participation (20 points maximum) ________

 

 

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