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Week 1 - January 8 - 14 - Introduction

 * Tuesday, January 10
 * Review of syllabus and introduction to the course
 * Thursday, January 12
 * [[file:os215/Presentation_1-11-12.ppt|Presentation_1-11-12.ppt]]
 * Required Reading (14 pages):
 * 1) “Introduction: Change, Destruction, and Renewal of Native American Cultures at the End of the Twentieth Century” by Duane Champagne in Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues, pages 7-10
 * 2) Native American Voices Handout
 * “Native Peoples of Mexico” by R. David Edmunds
 * [[file:os215/Edmunds_Native Peoples of Mexico_AND_US Statistics.pdf|Edmunds_Native Peoples of Mexico_AND_US Statistics.pdf]]
 * “First Nations: Indigenous Peoples of Canada” by Steve Talbot
 * [[file:os215/Talbot_First Nations.pdf|Talbot_First Nations.pdf]]
 * “Native American Demographics--United States, 2008

Week 2 - January 15 - 21 - Identity

 * Tuesday, January 17 - Who is Native American?
 * Introduction to Library Resources - Meet at OCC Library
 * Required Reading (29 pages):
 * 1) Part 1: Identity in Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
 * “American Indian Identities: Issues of Individual Choice and Development” by Devon A. Mihesuah, pp. 11-31
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout
 * “Indigenous Identity: What is it, and who really has it?” by Hilary N. Weaver
 * [[file:os215/Weaver_Indigenous Identity.pdf|Weaver_Indigenous Identity.pdf]]
 * Thursday, January 19 - Stereotypes
 * [[file:os215/Presentation_1-19-12.ppt|Presentation_1-19-12.ppt]]
 * Watch clips of May 5, 2011 U.S. Senate Oversight Hearing on “Stolen Identities: The Impact of Racist Stereotypes on Indigenous People”
 * Required Reading (27 pages):
 * 1) American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities Handout
 * [[file:os215/Stereotypes and Realities.pdf|Stereotypes and Realities.pdf]]

Week 3 - January 22 - 28 - Gender

 * Tuesday, January 24 - Native Women’s Issues
 * Required Reading (31 pages):
 * 1) Handout: “Colonialism and Disempowerment” in Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism by Devon Abbott
 * [[file:os215/Decolonization and Empowerment_Women.pdf|Decolonization and Empowerment_Women.pdf]]
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout
 * “Native American Women and Coerced Sterilization” by Sally J. Torpy
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Sterilization.pdf|Native Voices_Sterilization.pdf]]
 * Thursday, January 26 - Gender Issues in Government and Policy
 * Required Reading (select one) (18-24 pages)
 * 1) Part II: Gender in Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
 * “Aboriginal Women and Self-Government: Challenging Leviathan” by Katherine Beaty Chiste, pp. 69-87
 * “Contemporary Tribal Codes and Gender Issues” by Bruce G. Miller, pp. 103-123
 * *Draft Research Project Idea Summary Due February 2nd

Week 4 - January 29 - February 4 - Federal Indian Policy

 * Tuesday, January 31 - Early Federal Indian Law
 * [[file:os215/Presentation_1-31-12_Indian Policy.ppt|Presentation_1-31-12_Indian Policy.ppt]]
 * Required Reading (18 pages)
 * 1) Key Indian Laws and Cases Handout
 * 2) Native American Voices Handout
 * “A History of Federal Indian Policy” by David E. Wilkins
 * [[file:os215/Wilkins_History of Federal Indian Policy.pdf|Wilkins_History of Federal Indian Policy.pdf]]
 * Thursday, February 2 - Self-Determination
 * [[file:os215/Presentation_2-2-12_Indian Policy.ppt|Presentation_2-2-12_Indian Policy.ppt]]
 * Required Reading (30 pages)
 * 1) The State of Native America Handout
 * “International Law and Politics: Toward a Right to Self-Determination for Indigenous Peoples” by Glenn T. Morris
 * [[file:os215/Self-Determination 2.pdf|Self-Determination 2.pdf]]

Week 5 - February 5 - 11 - Tribal Governance

 * Tuesday, February 7 - Tribal Government
 * Required Reading (20 pages)
 * 1) The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Handout
 * “Tribal Government”
 * [[file:os215/Harvard Project_Governance.pdf|Harvard Project_Governance.pdf]]
 * Thursday. February 9 - Nation Building
 * Writing Across the Curriculum Prompt Distributed
 * Required Reading (10 pages)
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout
 * “Remaking the Tools of Governance: Colonial Legacies, Indigenous Solutions” by Stephen Cornell
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Remaking the Tools of Governance.pdf|Native Voices_Remaking the Tools of Governance.pdf]]

Week 6 - February 12 - 18 - Education

 * Tuesday, February 14 - Boarding School Era
 * Watch film “Older Than America” (1 hr 42 min)
 * Required Reading (19 pages)
 * 1) The State of Native America Handout
 * “American Indian Education in the United States: Indoctrination for Subordination to Colonialism” by Jorge Noriega
 * [[file:os215/State of Native America_Education.pdf|State of Native America_Education.pdf]]
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout
 * “If We Get the Girls, We Get the Race: Missionary Education of Native American Girls” by Carol Devens
 * [[file:os215/Devens_Missionary Education of Girls.pdf|Devens_Missionary Education of Girls.pdf]]
 * Thursday, February 16 - Modern Era and Higher Education
 * Writing Across the Curriculum In-Class Assignment
 * Required Reading (16 pages)
 * 1) The State of Native America Handout
 * “American Indian Education in the United States” (cont...)
 * [[file:os215/State of Native America_Education.pdf|State of Native America_Education.pdf]]
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout
 * “Protagonism Emergent: Indians and Higher Education” by Jeffrey Wollock
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Indians and Higher Education.pdf|Native Voices_Indians and Higher Education.pdf]]
 * *Final Research Project Summary and List of References due February 23rd

Week 7 - February 19 - 25 - Language & Culture

 * Tuesday, February 21 - Language Revitalization
 * Watch documentary “First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language” (56 min)
 * Required Reading (28 pages)
 * 1) Handout: “Endangered Native American Languages: What is to be done, and why?” by James Crawford
 * 2) Native American Voices Handout
 * “Hawaiian Language Schools” by Leanne Hinton
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Hawaiian Language Schools.pdf|Native Voices_Hawaiian Language Schools.pdf]]
 * Thursday, February 23 - Contemporary Powwow
 * Required Reading (15 pages)
 * 1) Part III: Contemporary Powwow in Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
 * “The Powwow as a Public Arena for Negotiating Unity and Diversity in American Indian Life” by Mark Mattern, pp. 127-141
 * Optional: “Southwestern Oklahoma, the Gourd Dance, and “Charlie Brown” by Luke E. Lassiter, pp. 145-162

Week 9 - March 4 - 10 - Art, Media & Film

 * Tuesday, March 6 - Issues of Ownership and Marketing
 * Watch film “Black Robe” (1 hr 42 min)
 * Required Reading (26 pages)
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout
 * “But is it American Indian Art?” by Traci L. Morris
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_But is it Native Art.pdf|Native Voices_But is it Native Art.pdf]]
 * 1) Part IV: Film and Other Media in Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
 * “Cultural Imperialism and the Marketing of Native America” by Laurie Anne Whitt, pp. 167-185
 * Thursday, March 8 - Media & Film
 * Watch film “Smoke Signals” (1 hr 29 min)
 * Required Reading (25 pages)
 * 1) Part IV: Film and Other Media in Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
 * Native Media’s Communities” by Steven Leuthold, pp. 193-214
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout
 * “Gone with the Wind: A Decade After Smoke Signals, Success Remains Elusive for Native American Filmmakers” by Mathew Fleischer
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Decade after Smoke Signals.pdf|Native Voices_Decade after Smoke Signals.pdf]]

Week 10 - March 11 - 17 - Health

 * Tuesday, March 13 - Health Disparities
 * Watch Diane Sawyer 20/20 Segment “A Hidden America: Children of the Plains” (41 min)
 * Required Reading (28 pages)
 * 1) The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Handout
 * “Health”
 * [[file:os215/Havard Project_Health.pdf|Havard Project_Health.pdf]]
 * 1) Part V: Health in Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
 * “The Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse among American Indians: The Mythical and Real Properties” by Philip A. May, pp. 225-240
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Alcohol Abuse.pdf|Native Voices_Alcohol Abuse.pdf]]
 * Thursday, March 15 - Perspectives on Native Health
 * Required Reading (21 pages)
 * 1) Part V: Health in Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
 * “Tobacco, Culture, and Health Among American Indians: A Historical Review” by Christina M. Pego et al., pp. 245-259
 * Optional: “Cancer Control Research among American Indians and Alaska Natives: A Paradigm for Research in the Next Millennium” by Martin C. Mahoney et al., pp. 263-271
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout
 * “Perspectives on Traditional Health Practices” by Larry Murillo
 * *First Draft of Research Paper due March 23rd

Week 11 - March 18 - 24 - Repatriation & Religious Freedom

 * Tuesday, March 20 - Repatriation and Historic Preservation
 * Required Reading (21 pages)
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout
 * “Who Owns Our Past? The Repatriation of Native American Human Remains and Cultural Objects” by Russel Thornton
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Who Owns Our Past_Repatriation.pdf|Native Voices_Who Owns Our Past_Repatriation.pdf]]
 * “Protecting Native American Human Remains, Burial Grounds, and Sacred Places” by James Riding In, Cal Seciwa, Suzan Harjo, and Walter Echo-Hawk
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Protecting Human Remains.pdf|Native Voices_Protecting Human Remains.pdf]]
 * Thursday, March 22 - Rights to Religious Freedom and Sacred Sites
 * Watch documentary film “In the Light of Reverence” (73 min)
 * Required Reading (8 pages)
 * 1) Handout: “Sacred Places at Risk” by Suzan Shown Harjo
 * [[file:os215/Sacred Places at Risk_Harjo.pdf|Sacred Places at Risk_Harjo.pdf]]
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout
 * “American Indian Religious Freedom Act After Twenty-Five Years” by Suzan Shown Harjo
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_American Indian Religious Freedom Act.pdf|Native Voices_American Indian Religious Freedom Act.pdf]]

Week 12 - March 25 - 31 - Environment

 * Tuesday, March 27 - Environmental Issues
 * Required Reading (16 pages):
 * 1) Part VI: Environmental Issues in Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
 * “Friendly Fire: When Environmentalists Dehumanize American Indians” by David Waller, pp. 275-290
 * Optional: “Ecological Risk Assessment and Management: Their Failure to Value Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Protect Tribal Homelands” by Jeanette Wolfley, pp. 293-304
 * [[file:os215/Indigenous Traditions Ecology_Contemporary Native Responses.pdf|Indigenous Traditions Ecology_Contemporary Native Responses.pdf]]
 * Optional: “Uranium Is in My Body” by Rachel L. Spieldoch, pp. 307-315
 * Thursday, March 29 - Protecting Tribal Homelands
 * Watch documentary film “Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action” (88 min)
 * Required Reading (~35 pages):
 * 1) Handout: “Contemporary Native American Responses to Environmental Threats in Indian Country” by Tirso A. Gonzales and Melissa K. Nelson in Indigenous Traditions and Ecology

Week 13- April 1 - 7 - Environment

 * Tuesday, April 3 - Land & Treaty Rights
 * Watch films “Ojibwa Treaty Rights: Connections to Land & Water” (18 min) and “Lighting the 7th Fire” (48)
 * Required Reading (24 pages):
 * 1) Handout: “After the Storm: Ojibwe Treaty Rights Twenty Five-Years after the Voigt Decision” by Patty Loew and James Thannum
 * [[file:os215/After the Storm_Ojibwe Treaty Rights.pdf|After the Storm_Ojibwe Treaty Rights.pdf]]
 * 1) Optional: Native American Voices Handout • “The Black Hills: The Sacred Land of the Lakota and Tsistsistas” by Mario Gonzalez
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Black Hills_Land Rights.pdf|Native Voices_Black Hills_Land Rights.pdf]]
 * Thursday, April 5 - Leading Ways Toward Sustainability
 * Guest Lecture by Aimee Cree Dunn (Northern Michigan University) on The Seventh Fire Project
 * Required Reading (16 pages):
 * 1) Handout: “Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Towards Coexistence” by Deborah McGregor in In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization
 * [[file:os215/McGregor_Sustainable Development.pdf|McGregor_Sustainable Development.pdf]]
 * 1) Handout: “The Seventh Generation: Rethinking the Constitution” by Winona LaDuke
 * [[file:os215/Seventh Generation_Winona LaDuke.pdf|Seventh Generation_Winona LaDuke.pdf]]
 * 1) Optional: Native American Voices Handout “Call to Consciousness on the Fate of Mother Earth: Global Warming and Climate Change” by Jose Barreiro
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Call to Consiousness_Climate Change.pdf|Native Voices_Call to Consiousness_Climate Change.pdf]]

Week 14 - April 8 - 14 - Indigenous Activism

 * Tuesday, April 10 - American Indian Movement
 * Watch film “Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story” (89 min)
 * Required Reading (23 pages):
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout “Reflections of Alcatraz” by Lanada Boyer
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Reflections on Alcatraz.pdf|Native Voices_Reflections on Alcatraz.pdf]]
 * 1) The State of Native America Handout “A Warrior Caged: The Continuing Struggle of Leonard Peltier” by Jim Vander Wall
 * [[file:os215/State of Native America_A Warrior Caged.pdf|State of Native America_A Warrior Caged.pdf]]
 * Thursday, April 12 - Global Perspectives and New Directions
 * Required Reading (24 pages):
 * 1) Handout: “Indigenous Peoples: Global Perspectives and Movements” Chapter 6 in Indigenous Peoples and Globalization: Resistance and Revitalization
 * [[file:os215/IP_Global Perspectives and Movements.pdf|IP_Global Perspectives and Movements.pdf]]
 * 1) Native American Voices Handout “Directions in Peoples’s Movements” by John Mohawk
 * [[file:os215/Native Voices_Directions in Peoples Movements.pdf|Native Voices_Directions in Peoples Movements.pdf]]
 * *Final Research Paper Due April 19th

Week 15 - April 15 - 21 - International Indigenous Rights

 * Tuesday, April 17 - UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
 * Required Reading (18 pages):
 * 1) Handouts:
 * “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”
 * [[file:os215/Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.pdf|Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.pdf]]
 * James Anaya, Testimony before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs “Setting the Standard: Domestic Policy Implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”
 * [[file:os215/James Anaya_Testimony.pdf|James Anaya_Testimony.pdf]]
 * Thursday, April 19 - Indigenous Rights and the Environment
 * Required Reading (14 pages):
 * 1) Handouts:
 * “Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, and the Environment” essay by Lorie Graham & Nicole Friederichs (Suffolk Law School)
 * [[file:os215/Indigenous_Peoples_Human_Rights_and_the_Environment.pdf|Indigenous_Peoples_Human_Rights_and_the_Environment.pdf]]
 * Optional: “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya: Extractive industries operating within or near indigenous territories” (July 11, 2011)
 * [[file:os215/UN Report_Optional.pdf|UN Report_Optional.pdf]]

Week 16 - April 22 - 28 - Student Presentations
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 * Tuesday, April 24
 * Student Presentations
 * Thursday, April 26
 * Student Presentations Continued and Course Reflections