Ethnic Studies 112 / History (US) 108
Winter 2002
Peterson 104: MWF 2:30 PM - 3:20 PM
Ross Frank, Department of Ethnic Studies
Office: SSB 227
Office Hours: Monday 4:00-5:00 PM, Wednesday 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
Phone: (858) 534-6646
e-mail: RFRANK@Weber.ucsd.edu
Teaching Assistant: May Fu
e-mail: mfu@weber.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-3276
Online class discussion is at: http://discus.ucsd.edu/ (ETHN112)
Class links:
Lecture outlines and terms- Discussion Sections (class list)
Discussion Section questions
Written assignment reading options
Midterm Exam Study QuestionsWritten assignment instructions
Checklist for Better WritingLecture Notes (password protected)
Final Exam Study Questions
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 15%; written essay 35%; final 25%; and discussion section 25%.
All students must attend all lectures, discussion sections, and read the assigned materials in order to complete this course. The discussion sections are designed to encourage and facilitate your active engagement with the course material. Discussion grades will depend on your attendance and constructive participation. You have a responsibility to create an environment conducive to learning in section and during lectures.
Discussion Sections are held on cerain Fridays specified on the syllabus. You will be assigned a section:
Section A will meet in Peterson 104
Section B will meet in Warren 2205
Note: Do not purchase any books before reading this section very carefully!
The following required books have been ordered for this course by Groundwork bookstore:
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:
The reader and books above have been placed on 2 hour library reserve.
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 were the reading is first assigned. Be prepared to discuss the reading material in class and in discussion section.
JANUARY 7 Introduction to History of Native Americans
JANUARY 9 Myth as History and History as Myth
Angela Cavender Wilson. "American Indian History or Non-Indian Perceptions of American Indian History?" ES 112 Reader
Angela Cavender Wilson. Grandmother to Granddaughter: Generations of Oral History in a Dakota Family." ES 112 Reader.
James A. Brown "America Before Columbus." ES 112 Reader
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems in American Indian History, 20-28, 58-60.JANUARY 11 The Pre-contact World in the Southwest
Neal Salisbury, in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 29-44.
Blake Edgar. "Dead Men Do Tell Tales." ES 112 Reader.
ES 112 Reader Maps - look through section and use throughout the quarter.
JANUARY 14 Contact and Colonization in the Southwest
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 93-104.
Steven W. Hackel, in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 115-132JANUARY 16 Contact and Colonization in the Great Lakes
Carol Devens. "Separate Confrontations: Gender as a Factor in Indian Adaptation to European Colonization in New France" ES 112 Reader.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 60-61, 138-140.JANUARY 18 MEET IN DISCUSSION SECTION
Karen O. Kupperman. "English Perceptions of Treachery, 1583-1640: The Case of the American 'Savages'." ES 112 Reader.
JANUARY 21 NO CLASS - MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY
Jill Lepore. "Dead-Men-Tell-No-Tales "John Sassamon and the Fatal Consequences of Literacy." ES 112 Reader.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 61-63, 135-138.JANUARY 23 Contact and Colonization in the Eastern Woodlands
Richard R. Johnson. "The Search for a Usable Indian: An Aspect of the Defense of Colonial New England." ES 112 Reader.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 140-142.JANUARY 25 Dynamics of Eighteenth Century Culture Change
Gregory Evans Dowd. "Thinking and Believing: Nativism and Unity in the Ages of Pontiac and Tecumsah." ES 112 Reader.
Francis Paul Prucha. Documents of United States Indian Policy, #1-4, ES 112 Reader.
JANUARY 28 United States, Exploration, and the "Release of Energy"
Michelle Daniel. "From Blood Feud to Jury System; the Metamorphosis of Cherokee Law from 1750-1840." ES 112 Reader.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 164-170.JANUARY 30 "Civilization" and Removal: Horns of a Dilemma
Elias Boudinot. "Selection of Writings." ES 112 Reader.
Kenneth Penn Davis. "Chaos in Indian Country: The Cherokee Nation, 1828-1835." ES 112 Reader.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 200-204.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112 Reader, numbers 46, 48-49.FEBRUARY 1 MEET IN DISCUSSION SECTION (Peterson 104 / Warren 2205)
Donna L. Akers. "Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective." ES 112 Reader.
FEBRUARY 4 MIDTERM EXAMINATION
FEBRUARY 6 Dynamics of Early 19th Century Culture Change
Daniel Usner, in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 207-217.
Tanis Thorne, in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 217-226.FEBRUARY 8 The First Wave: Going West Before the Civil War
Begin reading your choice from the books listed for your written assignment. *
Utley, Robert. The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890. 1-30. *
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 229-231.
Pekka Hämäläinen, in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 238-257.
FEBRUARY 11 Fragments of a National Indian Policy
Read book for written assignment.
Utley, Robert. The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890. 31-64.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 231-238.
Albert Hurtado, in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 257-274.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112 Reader, number 58FEBRUARY 13 The 2nd Wave: Taking Possession of the Indian West
Utley. The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890. 65-98.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 276-278, 282-284.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112 Reader, numbers 79, 81-84.FEBRUARY 15 The Plains in History and Art, 1860-1890s
Utley. The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890. 99-155.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 312-322.
Matthews, John Joseph. Wah' Kon-Tah: the Osage and the White Man’s Road. *
FEBRUARY 18 NO CLASS - PRESIDENT’S DAY
Read book for written assignment.
Utley. The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890. 157-201.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 349-351.
Matthews. Wah' Kon-Tah.FEBRUARY 20 Education and Allotment: The Push for Assimilation I
Utley. The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890. 202-226.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112 Reader, numbers 95-98
Matthews. Wah' Kon-Tah.FEBRUARY 22 Education and Allotment: The Push for Assimilation II
Utley. The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890. 227-272.
Ruckman, Jo Ann. "Indian Schooling in New Mexico in the 1890s: Letters of a Teacher in the Indian Service," ES 112 Reader.
Matthews. Wah' Kon-Tah
Read book for written assignment.
FEBRUARY 25 The Ghost Dance: Revival, Adaptation, and Symbol
Read book for written assignment.
Mooney, James. Excerpt from: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890. ES 112 Reader.
Todd Kerstetter. "Spin Doctors at Santee: Missionaries and the Dakota-Language Reporting of the Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee," ES 112 Reader.
Matthews. Wah' Kon-Tah.FEBRUARY 27 Surviving the Nineteenth Century
Rennard Strickland, and William M. Strickland. “Beyond the Trail of Tears: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Cherokee Survival." ES 112 Reader.
Alexandra Harmon. "Tribal enrollment councils: Lessons on law and Indian identity," ES 112 Reader.
Matthews. Wah' Kon-Tah. Finish by today.MARCH 1 MEET IN DISCUSSION SECTION
Frederick Hoxie, in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 371-381.
MARCH 4 Assimilation in the Context of Imperialism & Racism
Read book for written assignment.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 383-397.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112 Reader, numbers 136-138.MARCH 6 Reversing Directions in the New Deal
D'Arcy McNickle, in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 410-417.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 452-460.
Troy R. Johnson, in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 472-484.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112 Reader, numbers 143-144.MARCH 8 The Indian New Deal in Action
Nagel, Joane. Chapter 7 from American Indian Ethnic Renewal : Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture, ES 112 Reader.
Graybill, Andrew. "Strong on the Merits and Powerfully Symbolic": The Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo," ES 112 Reader.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 418-433.
Peter Iverson. in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 444-450.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112 Reader, numbers 147-149.
MARCH 11 Native Americans & the Post WWII Government Revolutions
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT DUE (beginning of class)
Margaret L Knox. "The New Indian Wars," ES 112 Reader.
Baird-Olson, Karen, and Carol Ward. "Recovery and Resistance: The Renewal of Traditional Spirituality among American Indian Women," ES 112 Reader.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112 Reader, numbers 159-164.MARCH 13 Reconfiguring the Nations Within the Nation
William E. Farr. "Troubled Bundles, Troubled Blackfeet," ES 112 Reader.
Ferguson, T. J., Roger Anyon, and Edmund J. Ladd. "Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems," ES 112 Reader.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 492-497.
Steve Laresse, in Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 499-503.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112 Reader, numbers 183-185, 187, 201-209, 214-215.MARCH 15 Bearing the Past for the Native American Future
Rockafellar, Nancy, and Orin Starn. "Ishi's Brain," ES 112 Reader.
Hurtado & Iverson. Major Problems, 497-498.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112 Reader, 229-231, 235, 238.
Monday MARCH 18
FINAL EXAM
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
(Please confirm place & time in Final Exam Schedule)
Study guide will be available.
© 2002, Ross Frank, updated: 3/10/02.