Instructor: Gerry Waite
Office: BB311 Phone: 765-285-3279
E-mail Gwaite@bsu.edu
Instructor: Gerry
Waite
Office:
BB311 Phone: 765-285-3279
E-mail Gwaite@bsu.edu
Rationale: Indians of North America will focus on the primary culture areas of the north American landscape starting with the Arctic regions and working to the American Southwest. Although the primary focus will be the state of those cultures at a pre-contact time, that of course is really an impossibility. Therefore, we will try to contextualize cultural traits using culture area theory and then bring the discussion into the present through the use of a contemporary ethnography.
Texts:
An Introduction
to Native North America
Mark Q. Sutton
Crazy Horse Larry
McMurtry
Grading:
Three in class exams worth 50 points each 150 points
Attendance is worth 5 points per meeting 75 points total
Participation is worth 75 points total
A Final Exam cumulative: 100 points
400 points total
360& up = a
320 = b
280 = c
240 = d
anything below 240 -- forget it
There are bonus points for attending the Native
American film series,
10 points for each night, and 25 points for attending
Sherman
Alexie's reading at Purdue on April 19th.
Graduate students a term paper:
+ 100
points
Class meetings and
subject:
January 11: Introduction to the scope of Native America and peopling of the America's chapter 1 Sutton. Please also read Migrations
January 18: European contact Sutton
ch 2 
January 25: The Arctic Sutton
ch 3 film, Nanook
of the North. Check out this slideshow
and this site Arctic
Circle
February 1: The Subarctic Ch 4 in Sutton
March
29: Test 3 --then we
jump to the Eastern woodlands
chapter 11.
April 5: Read
Thomas
Jefferson's letter to Handsome 
Lake and Red
Jacket
April 26: Contemporary issues ch
13.
May 3: Final
Films: More than
Bows
and Arrows
Nanook of the North
The Cree Hunters of Mistassini
Indians of the Northwest
I Will Fight no More Forever
Geronomo and the Apache
Resistance
Seasons of the Navajo
Winds of Change a Matter of
Promises
In the Image of the White Man
Plight of the American Indian
Haida
The Cry of the Yurok
Songs of the Fourth World
Plight of the American Indian
Plight of the Shoshone Indians
*If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of disability, or you have emergency medical information to share with me, please see me as soon as possible.*