Ethnic Studies 112B / History (US) 108B, Spring 2004
Peterson 103: Tu-Th 9:30 - 10:50 AM
Ross Frank, Department of Ethnic Studies
Office: SSB 227
Office Hours:Tuesday Noon-2:00 PM,Phone: (858) 534-6646
Wednesday 1:00 - 3:00 PM,
or by appointment (e-mail or phone).
e-mail: RFRANK@Weber.ucsd.edu
Class links:
Graded Midterm Examples
- Lecture outlines and terms
Midterm Exam Study Questions
Research Project instructions
Checklist for Better WritingExtra Credit Opportunities
Final Exam Study QuestionsLinks to daily American Indian news, events, history and culture. Please check frequently!
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%; research project 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 in section and during lectures.
The ES112B 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:
The reader and books above have been placed on 2 hour library reserve. Other readings are also available on e-reserves and many are linked from the syllabus below. If you are accessing these electronic resources off campus you need to configure your browser accordingly. Click here for instructions.
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.
SEPTEMBER 23 Introduction to History of Native American History
SEPTEMBER 28 FILM: Ishi, the Last Yahi
John Joseph Mathews, Wah’ Kon-Tah: the Osage and the White Man’s Road. xi-120 •
Review Maps in ES 112B Reader
SEPTEMBER 30 Reservation Incarceration and Assimilation
Matthews, Wah’ Kon-Tah. 121-206.
Iverson, “We Are Still Here”, Introduction, Chapter 1. •
Francis Paul Prucha. Documents, ES 112B Reader, numbers 84, 95, 97 & 104
OCTOBER 5 Building the Attack on Assimilation
Matthews, Wah’ Kon-Tah. 207-280.
Iverson, “We Are Still Here”, Chapter 2.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112B Reader, numbers 136, 137, & 139.
OCTOBER 7 Reversing Directions in the New Deal
Matthews, Wah’ Kon-Tah. 281-336.
Iverson, “We Are Still Here”, Chapter 3.
Frederick E. Hoxie, Talking Back to Civilization : Indian Voices from the Progressive Era, in ES 112B Reader.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112B Reader, numbers 142-144.
OCTOBER 12 The Indian New Deal in Action
Donald Lee Parman, Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century, Chapter 6, in ES 112B Reader.
Kenneth R. Philp, Indian Self-Rule : First-Hand Accounts of Indian-White Relations from Roosevelt to Reagan, in ES 112B Reader.
OCTOBER 14 World War II and the Remaking of the New Deal
Iverson, “We Are Still Here”, Chapter 4: 103-119.
Donald Lee Fixico, The Urban Indian Experience in America. Chapter 1, in ES 112B Reader.
OCTOBER 19 Termination and Urbanization
Iverson, “We Are Still Here”, Chapter 4: 119-138.
Philp, Indian Self-Rule, in ES 112B Reader.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112B Reader, numbers 147-149.
OCTOBER 21 Reversing Direction Again: Indian Activism and Self-Determination
Iverson, “We Are Still Here”, Chapter 5.
Philp, Indian Self-Rule, in ES 112B Reader.
Joane Nagel, "American Ethnic Renewal: Politics and the Resurgence of Identity," in ES 112B Reader.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112B Reader, numbers 159-160, 162-164.
OCTOBER 26 Prelude to Sovereignty
Iverson, “We Are Still Here”, Chapter 6 and Epilogue.
Fixico, The Urban Indian Experience in America. Chapter 3, in ES 112B Reader.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112B Reader, numbers 183-185.
OCTOBER 28 MIDTERM EXAMINATION
NOVEMBER 2 Tribal Governmental Relations
Meet this week about idea for research project (individuals or groups).
Vine Deloria, and David E. Wilkins. Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations. Chapters 4 and 8, in ES 112B Reader.
Rex Sylvester Wirth, and Stefanie Wickstrom. "Competing Views: Indian Nations and Sovereignty in the Intergovernmental System of the United States," in ES 112B Reader.
Eva Marie Garroutte, "The Racial Formation of American Indians: Negotiating Legitimate Identities within Tribal and Federal Law," in ES 112B Reader.
Prucha. Documents, ES 112B Reader, numbers 204-206, 209, 214-215, 229-231, 235, 238.
NOVEMBER 4 Tribal Economies and Sovereignty
Stephen E. Cornell, and Joseph P. Kalt. "Reloading the Dice: Improving the Chances for Economic Development on American Indian Reservations." ," in ES 112B Reader.
Eve Darian-Smith, New Capitalists : Law, Politics, and Identity Surrounding Casino Gaming on Native American Land. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2004, 1-51. •
NOVEMBER 9 The Gaming Issues
DUE: 1-page description of research project.
Darian-Smith, New Capitalists, 52-117.
John J. Bodinger de Uriarte, "Imagining the Nation with House Odds: Representing American Indian Identity at Mashantucket," in ES 112B Reader.
Carole Goldberg, and Duane Champagne. "Ramona Redeemed," in ES 112B Reader.
NOVEMBER 11 NO CLASS — VETERANS DAY
Vine Deloria, Red Earth, White Lies : Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact," Chapter 8, in ES 112B Reader.
NOVEMBER 16 Education and Tribal Control
Duane Champagne, "American Indian Studies Is for Everyone," in ES 112B Reader.
Karen Gayton Swisher. "Why Indian People Should Be the Ones Who Write About Indian Education," in ES 112B Reader.
Steve Talbot, "Academic Indianismo: Social Scientific Research in American Indian Studies," in ES 112B Reader.
NOVEMBER 18 Indigenous Knowledge
Les W. Field, "Unacknowledged Tribes, Dangerous Knowledge: The Muwekma Ohlone and How Indian Identities Are "Known," in ES 112B Reader.
Donald Lee Fixico, The American Indian Mind in a Linear World : American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge, Chapter 1, in ES 112B Reader.
Lawrence William Gross, "Cultural Sovereignty and Native American Hermeneutics in the Interpretation of the Sacred Stories of the Anishinaabe," in ES 112B Reader.
Andrew Gulliford, Sacred objects and sacred places : preserving tribal traditions," Chapter 5, in ES 112B Reader.
NOVEMBER 23 NAGPRA and Culture I
Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, Grave Injustice : The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. Fourth World Rising. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002, 1-114 & appendix (text of NAGPRA). •
Patricia M. Landau, and D. Gentry Steele. "Why Anthropologists Study Human Remains," in ES 112B Reader.
NOVEMBER 25 NO CLASS — THANKSGIVING
William E. Farr, "Troubled Bundles, Troubled Blackfeet - the Travail of Cultural and Religious Renewal," in ES 112B Reader.
T. J., Roger Anyon Ferguson, and Edmund J. Ladd. "Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse Solutions to Complex Problems," in ES 112B Reader.
Lisa Aldred, "Plastic Shamans and Astroturf Sun Dances: New Age Commercialization of Native American Spirituality," in ES 112B Reader.
Jason Edward Black, "The "Mascotting" of Native America: Construction, Commodity, and Assimilation," in ES 112B Reader.
NOVEMBER 30 NAGPRA and Culture II
Fine-Dare, Grave Injustice : The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. Fourth World Rising. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002, 117-196.
Bruce G. Miller, "Culture as Cultural Defense: An American Indian Sacred Site in Court," in ES 112B Reader.
Marie Mauze, "Two Kwakwaka'wakw Museums: Heritage and Politics," in ES 112B Reader.
DECEMBER 2 FILM: Harold of Orange by Gerald Vizenor
(Anishinabeg [Ojibwa])RESEARCH PROJECTS DUE
Gerald Vizenor, “The Origins of American Indian Instant Coffee," in ES 112B Reader.
Nancy Rockafellar and Orin Starn. "Ishi's Brain," in ES 112B Reader.
Final Exam Review Session - Monday 12/6, 5-7PM, PETERSON 103
Wednesday DECEMBER 8 FINAL EXAM 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM, PETERSON 103
(BRING BLUE BOOKS. Please confirm place & time in Final Exam Schedule)
© 2004, Ross Frank, updated: 12/1/2004.