HIST 308 North American Indians

Below are the handouts and guides related to this class (left column). All online readings (right column) are available either through the WSUV Library Electronic Reserves system (linked below) or the database indicated.

ANNOUNCEMENT: 15th Annual Chief Redheart Nez Perce Reconciliation Ceremony, 10:00am, April 21, 2012, Ft. Vancouver Click here for more information

Weekly tribal perspectives questions: #1 (Origins) due 1.20.12 / #2 (Contact) due 2.3.12 / #3 (Colonization) due 2.10.12 / #4 (Removal) due 2.17.12 / #5 (Treaties) due 2.24.12 / #6 (Reservations) (due 3.9.12)

#7 (Resistance) due 3.30.12 / #8 (Assimilation) due 4.6.12 / #9 (Termination) due 4.13.12 / #10 (Sovereignty) due 4.20.12

Syllabus  HIST308SylS12b.pdf (revised 1.19.12 & 2.8.12)

Writing Guide  Fountain Writing Guide vJ2.pdf

Citation Guide  Fountain Citation Guide vj2.pdf

Cebula Reading Guide  CebulaRG.pdf

Midterm Study Guide  308 midterm guide.pdf

Sample exam answer  Sample exam answer.pdf

Text-Heavy Slides  textyslides1.pdf

Fisher Reading Guide  FisherRG.pdf

Native American FIlm Series Assignment  xtracred.pdf (not accepted after 5:00pm Fri., Apr. 13)

Final Exam Study Guide  308 Final guide.pdf

OTHER:

Indian Country Today

Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History

University of California Anthropological Records

University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology

Newberry Library Indians of the Midwest

Robert Woolsey, "New Tlingit encyclopedia baffling to scholars, speakers," KCAW (Sitka, AK), Jan. 30, 2012.

NATIVE AMERICAN FILM SERIES

April 4: Georgina Lightning, Director, Older Than America

April 5: Jacqueline Peterson, WSUV Professor Emerita of History, Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School

April 6: Grace L. Dillon, PSU Professor of Indigenous Nations Studies, The Only Good Indian

Native American Film Series poster

• Keith H. Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996), 9-13, 23-30. (access via WSUV eReserves)

• Daniel Vickers, “The First Whalemen of Nantucket,” William and Mary Quarterly 40, no. 3 (1983): 560-569. (access via America: History & Life database)

• Margot Liberty, “Hell Came with Horses: Plains Women in the Equestrian Era,” Montana 32, no. 3 (1982): 10-19. (access via America: History & Life database)

• Albert L. Hurtado, Indian Survival on the California Frontier (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988), 1-9. (access via WSUV eReserves)

• James Ronda. “Exploring the Explorers: Great Plains Peoples and the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” Great Plains Quarterly 13, no. 2 (1993): 81-90. (access via WSUV eReserves

• Andrew Lawler, "Grave Disputes," Science 330, no. 6001 (Oct. 8, 2010): 166-170. (access via JSTOR database)

• Andrew Lawler, "A Tale of Two Skeletons," Science 330, no. 6001 (Oct. 8, 2010): 171-172. (access via JSTOR database)

• Phil Deloria, Playing Indian (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998), 95-102. (access via WSUV eReserves)

• Russel Lawrence Barsh, "Ethnogenesis and Ethnonationalism from Competing Treaty Claims," in The Power of Promises: Rethinking Indian Treaties in the Pacific Northwest, ed. Alexandra Harmon (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008), 215-243. (access via WSUV eReserves)

• Gail Courey Toensing, "Don't Know Much about History: Stossel Says American Indians Receive the Most Help," Indian Country Today Media Network, Mar. 29, 2011.

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