Methodology: An Approach and Perspective
Topics:
Huckleberrying.
Start Questions. What do we seek to understand? How should we approach that which we seek to know? What should we do with that which we come to know? What is the relationship between "what" we seek to understand, and "how" we go about that understanding, between the content of something and the means to understand it?
"Inside Looking Out" and the "Tin Shed/Sweat House" -- issues of ethics, epistemology and pedagogy (Frey 2017)
Example of Burnt Face: an interpretation
The Three Mega-Stories - the Intersection
The Confluence of the Two Rivers: The First Peoples (the Clearwater River; St. Joe River) and the Euro-American Peoples (the Snake River; South Fork Coeur d'Alene River) -- issues of ontology and world view (Confluence PDF)
Concepts of "myth," "history," and "Indian."
Geographic, linguistic, demographic, historical and cultural overview
Literature Review
Organize into family groups, basis for learning activities (Plains Family PDF)
Readings (read the following texts prior to completion of assigned dates, unless noted as review):
Frey 2017: "Prayer," and "Telling my story," and "Sweat House" and "Listening," a protocol and an ethnographer. pp. ix-26, 83-135. Come prepared to discuss on August 24th.
Oswalt 2006:1-29 or 2009:1-29
Burnt Face (EJ)
Lecture Handouts:
What's In a Name?
Terms of North American Map, Satellite Map, and US Reservation
Dine/Navajo Maps: Dine Creation Map, Navajo Nation Map and Dine/Navajo Landscape Map
Plains Family (review) See membership of family groupings for your affiliation.
Supplemental:
Confluence of Rivers and overview of history and culture of Idaho's Tribes