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Academic Year 2002/2003
Jr. Col., Indigenous Ecotheories of Identity and Place in the Era of Nation-Building, 15th-20th Cen.
AMST 199
SP
This seminar course will challenge students to consider how intersecting ideas about place transformed indigenous peoples' ecocultural systems in the era of nation building. The center of the course will be a review of
various texts regarding Native North American philosophies of space, time and the uses of place. Native Americans' cultural beliefs about the environment did not end with the onset of European colonization, rather, they
were transformed to incorporate different ways of seeing and being in the world. Therefore the course will expand from distinctly Native perspectives to European views about the "management" of lands, resources and
Native
peoples. A significant key to European hegemony in the Americas has included displacing Native peoples from their lands and replacing them in Eurocentric settings and institutions. Thus we will examine Puritan Praying
Towns
and tribal villages, reservations and residential schools, urban centers and prisons, and the borders in between to better understand the continuing role of place in contemporary indigenous struggles for land, resources
and
cultural survival.
MAJOR READINGS
Basso, Keith, WISDOM SITS IN PLACES: LANDSCAPE AND LANGUAGE AMONG THE WESTERN APACHE, 1996, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press
Brody, Hugh, MAPS AND DREAMS, 1983, New York: Pantheon Books
Collins, James,
UNDERSTANDING TOLOWA HISTORIES:
WESTERN HEGE MONIES AND NATIVE AMERICAN RESPONSES, 1997, New York: Routledge
Cronon, William, CHANGES IN THE LAND: INDIANS, COLONISTS AND THE ECOLOGY OF NEW ENGLAND, 1983, New York: Hill and Wang
Allen, Paula Gunn,
OFF THE RESERVATION: REFLECTIONS O
N BOUNDARY-BUSTING, BORDER-CROSSING LOOSE CANONS, 1999, Boston: Beacon Press
Hale, Janet Campbell, THE JAILING OF CECELIA CAPTURE, 1985, University of New Mexico Press
Ross, Luana, INVENTING THE SAVAGE: THE SOCIAL
CONSTRUCTION FO NATIVE AMERICAN
CRIMINALITY, 2000, Austin: University of Texas Press
Welch, James, FOOLS CROW, 1987, New York: Penguin Books
Wyss, Hilary E., WRITING INDIANS: LITERACY, CHRISTIANITY AND NATIVE COMMUNITY IN EARLY AMERICA, 2001,
Amherst: University of Massachusetts P
res
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Students will turni n weekly seminar response papers, give a seminar presentation utilizing Powerpoint and complete a term research project.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Boyd,Colleen E.
- Times: ..T.R.. 12:30PM-02:30PM; Location: FISK101
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 15)
- SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 10
- SR. non-major: Jr. non-major: SO: FR:
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Speaking, Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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