NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES

ANT 3312
 

• The goals for this course are to increase understanding of contemporary Native American cultures and critical issues involving acculturation of native peoples. The objectives of the course involve classroom lectures and discussions which describe specific cultural attributes, exams which compare the range and variation of these differences, individual research on issues in the media, and a final synthesis of this information. The material will be presented through lectures, outside reading, videos, and guest speakers.

  The class will examine five ethnographies based on the Cherokee, Lakota, and Yupiaq, Kwakuitl, and Navajo cultures. Students will be introduced to the culture of the Seminole and the Miccosukee tribes of Florida in class. Main topics include history and culture change, the environment, subsistence, the status of men and women, religion, and contemporary issues. Students will be expected to participate in class and small group discussions, collect articles for classroom critique (reports), and write essays and exams.

Syllabus  

CLASS NOTES

• Class Notes: Cultural Identity, History, and Culture Change
• Class Notes: Religion 1 
• Class Notes: Religion 2
• Class Notes: Lakota Sioux History
• Class Notes: Subsistence
• Class Notes:  Education
  • Yupiaq Education
• Class Notes: Kinship
• Class Notes:  Kuskowagamiut:  Riverine Eskimos
• Class Notes:  Economic Systems
•  Class Notes: Social Structure
• Class Notes: Language
• Class Notes: Great Basin and Southwest Tribes
• Class Notes: Culture Ecology and Comparison of Lakota and Cherokee

CLASS PAPERS

• US and Indian Relations by Robert Hamilton (Fall 1999)
• What are Indian Mounds? by Christina Parrish (Fall 1999)
• Television's Impact on Indigenous People by Cindy Meskauskas (Fall 1999)
• The Reburial Issue by Robin Toncray (Fall 1999)
• Elements of Native American Literature by Renee Rallo (Fall 1999)
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