Extra Credit Opportunities for ETHN 112a / HIUS 108A
Dear students:
This is an extra credit opportunity for students who attend the exhibit described below.
To claim 4 points extra credit on the essay or final exam (whichever is lowest), hand in your museum ticket and a short paper
decribing aspects of the exhibition's main themes and argument, and how you relate it to Indian history. The paper is due by the beginning of the final exam.
George Catlin and His Indian Gallery opens May 9, 2004 in the George Montgomery Gallery, Museum of the American West (formerly the Autry Museoum of Western History, in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. Step back in time this summer and explore a spectacular installation of George Catlin’s original Indian Gallery. Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, George Catlin and His Indian Gallery highlights one of the crown jewels of their collections.
Directions: http://www.museumoftheamericanwest.org/visit/
Dear students:
This is an extra credit opporrtunity for students who attend (preferably on May 6th).
To claim 4 points extra credit on the essay or final exam (whichever is lowest), hand in a copy of the progam
with a short paper describing you experienced how you relate it to Indian history.
RED RHYTHMS: CONTEMPORARY METHODOLOGIES IN AMERICAN INDIAN
DANCE CONFERENCE
MAY 5th - 7th, 2004
UC Riverside Campus
Sherman Indian High School
UC RIVERSIDE will host a 3 day event exploring American
Indian dance as a vibrant, active, socio-cultural historical
practice. The event, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the
University of California Humanities Research Institute, and
the UCR Center for Ideas and Society, will take place on the
UCR campus and at the Sherman Indian High School in Riverside
from Wednesday afternoon through Friday morning, May 5 to 7th.
The event will explore American Indian dance as a vibrant,
active, socio-cultural historical practice. Our dual goal is to:
* SHOWCASE some of the exciting new work that contemporary
Native American and Aboriginal dancers and choreographers are
doing now, and facilitate a way for these artists to meet and
network with one another. The event will include dance
performances by local California Indian dance groups, and an
evening of Aboriginal and American Indian stage dance
featuring a half-dozen works by both established and emerging
Native dancers and choreographers.
* EXPOSE Dance scholars, and Native American Studies
scholars, to the richness of this dance, and provide a forum
for discussion of it and the complex historical and
theoretical issues it engages. The event will bring prominent
scholars of Dance Studies and Native American Studies to the
event to see the performances and talk about issues they raise.
Participants include: Muriel Miguel, Rosalie Jones/DAYSTAR,
Santee Smith, Rulan Tangen, Andrew Brother Elk, Quetzal
Guerrero, Kateri Walker, Marla Bingham, Kalani Queypo, Vince
Whipple, Karen Pheasant, Terry Goedel, Alejandro Ronceria,
Geraldine Manossa, and many more.
For more information and full schedule, please visit:
http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/redrhythms/
Dear students:
This is an extra credit opportunity for students who attend the talk described below.
To claim 4 points extra credit on the essay or final exam (whichever is lowest), hand in a short paper
decribing the main themes and argument of the talk how you relate it to Indian history.
THE CENTER FOR U.S.-MEXICAN STUDIES
at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
INVITES YOU TO A SEMINAR ON:
From Invented to Invisible Communities:
The Case of the Yuman People of Baja California
Wednesday, May 5, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Deutz Room, Copley Conference Center, IOA Complex, UCSD
Reception to follow
EVERARDO GARDUÑO
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Arizona State University
This presentation focuses on the construction of social networks and ethnicity among the Yuman indigenous
people who live in the northern desert of Baja California. By questioning the traditional view of the Yuman
as decimated and culturally assimilated, Garduño suggests a new theoretical framework to approach the alleged
dissolution of distinctive Yuman populations. Central concepts in his framework are the notions of
transnational community and hyperspace. According to the author, the application of these concepts in field
research may reveal how the Yuman remain engaged in the elaboration of new forms of social organization and
ethnic self-references through the construction of wide social networks that include (but are not limited to)
linguistically related groups in the United States. Thus Garduño contends that these indigenous people are
engaged in the deconstruction of the officially promoted (or even imposed) form of (invented) community by
constructing both imagined and invisible communities.
The Research Seminars are open to all members of the UCSD community, as well as to faculty and students from
other universities and the general public. Parking permits can be purchased at UCSD's information booths or
at the reception desk on the ground floor of the Institute of the Americas Building. Metered parking is
available in the Pangea parking structure. For driving and parking directions, see
http://www.usmex.ucsd.edu/Directions.html
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, 0510
La Jolla, CA 92093-0510
TEL: (858) 534-4503
FAX: (858) 534-6447
email: usmex@ucsd.edu
Web site: www.usmex.ucsd.edu