1. Methodology: The Approach and Perspective

• Three Questions: 1. What do we seek to understand?   2.  How should we approach that which we seek to know?   3.  What should we do with that which we come to know?

• Confluence of the Two Rivers: the Rivers of the Animal Peoples and Euro-Americans, of sought sovereignty and curtained sovereignty

• "Inside Looking Out from the Sweat House" and "Running with the Coyote"– an appreciation of an Indian participatory epistemology and pedagogy

• The Paradox: an orality and participatory-based world in a literacy and objectified-based world.  The Bridge and Translated Map

• Cultural Property Rights, Review Process and Ethics

• A First Start: geographic, linguistic, and cultural overview, and the map.   Example of Rabbit and Jack Rabbit's "map"   What's in a name?   Tts'achalqs vs Tekoa

• Readings:  

  • Tin Shed and Sweat House Approach

  • Confluence of Rivers and overview of history and culture of Idaho's Tribes 

  • Ackerman Introduction, ch. 1 and 2 

  • Frey pp. ix - 22, 269 - 292, and "Rabbit and Jack Rabbit" p.112

  • Hunn ch. 1 and 3 

• Support Materials:

  • Some key print sources

  • Some key web sources

  • James Teit and Verne Ray

• Videos:

  • Overview of the Schitsu'umsh, Nimiipu and Warm Springs L3 Modules (TEMPORARILY DOWN)

  • Mish Spino interview (approx. 60 min., Warm Springs 10-year old tells of life on the reservation today, go to lower left video and follow the links)

• Along with the user ID and password provided in class, you will need a reliable high-speed Internet connection (suggested 10 Mbps, as clips are streamed at 450 Kbps) and a RealPlayer to access class videos.  Remember, videos can be enlarged by dragging your mouse on the bottom right corner.  For a free version, .  

•  To access printable PDF files,
  

2. Winds of Change: Contact with Euro-American Peoples - (Contact History Riverbed)

   • Emerging American Cultural Values

   • Culture Contact Scenarios: Pluralism (incorporation and compartmentalization) and Assimilation (adoption, syncretism, revitalization and disintegration) 

   • The Horse and Smallpox

   • Lewis and Clark and the Fur Trader

   • Missionaries – 1831, Saint Louis and Catholics; Spalding and Whitman and Presbyterians; 1842 and the "Black Robes"

   • Steptoe War of 1858, Nez Perce Conflict of 1877, and other Indian Wars

   • Coeur d'Alene Executive Orders, Nez Perce Treaty of 1855, and the Dawes Act

   • Mining and Environmental Degradation

   • Smohalla, Washat, and the Seven Drums Religion

   • Indian Reorganization Act and Religious Freedom Act

   • Reservation Life: economy, education, government, religion

   • Growth of Tribal sovereignty: Fishing rights and gaming Constitution of 1948 – Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee; Self-Determination include current population and other key issues.

   • The Continuation and Healing of Historical Trauma

   • Readings: 

     • Ackerman ch. 5 and 6

     • Frey pp. 50 - 108

     • Hunn ch. 2, 8 and Appendix 5 "Yakima Treaty"

     • Sovereignty and Assimilation 

     • Emerging Values of 'Americanism'  (for a discussion of "cultural values")

     • Culture Contact Scenarios and Revitalization

     • "History" as a construct 

   • Support Materials:

     • Tocqueville's America of 1831 

     • John Gast's "American Progress"

     • Coeur d'Alene Map

     • Coeur d'Alene Executive Orders

     • Nez Perce Treaty

     • Nez Perce Treaty Council of 1855 (still images)

     • Meaning of Thanksgiving

     • Jerome Greene's account of the Nez Perce War of 1877, Nez Perce Summer 1877

     • Dawes Act

     • Joe Garry and the fight against Termination Policy (a review of Fahey' Saving the Reservation: Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian)

       • National Congress of American Indians (1944)
       • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (take a look at the agenda of the resent meeting; 1954)
       • Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (1975)
       • Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (take a look at all the programs; 1977)
       • Salmon and David SoHappy (outline of still images and key historical events leading up to the 1982 "Salmon Scam")
       • Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (1988)

     • US/Tribes v. State of Washington, the 2007 ruling on Salmon and Culverts (great background history, in legal terminology)

     • Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protection Association

     • Nez Perce - North Central Idaho Jurisdictional Alliance MOU

     • Coeur d'Alene Home Page (take a look at all the many programs and departments of the Tribe)

   • Videos:

     • Cliff SiJohn interview (Web, approx. 60 min., Coeur d'Alene elder provides overview of history and culture and "heart knowledge," follow the links) (TEMPORARILY DOWN)

     • History sections from the Schitsu'umsh, Nimiipu and Warm Springs Web L3 Modules (TEMPORARILY DOWN)

     • Surviving Lewis and Clark: the Nimíipuu Story (35 min., a great introduction to the history of the Nez Perce Tribe, a 2006 film)

     • Sacred Journey of the Nez Perce (60 min., a wonderful overview of some of the Tribes most important history, with reference to Lewis and Clark, Rev. Spalding and the Christian mission, and the Treaties of 1855 and 1863.  With a great chronicle summary of the War of 1877 and its continuing significance for Tribal members today.  All presented by Tribal elders and leaders.  An Idaho Public Television 1996 production.)

     • Hatiya (26 min., life on the Umatilla Reservation ca 1890s)

     • Sacred Mission - 1878-1985 (24 min., interviews of Coeur d'Alenes who experienced the many sides of the Boarding School; produced by the Coeur d'Alene Tribe and directed by Georgia Johnson in 2006)

     • David SoHappy (50 min., the 1982 "salmon scam" on the Columbia)

     • Rebecca Tsosie (51 min., from her 2000 U of I Distinguished American Indian Speaker's Series talk, "Rethinking the Tribal Sovereignty Doctrine: Cultural Sovereignty and the Collective Future of Indian Nations."  Tsosie is Navajo and Professor of Law and the Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University)

     • Our Land, Our Life (26 min., this 2007 film tells of the struggles of two Western Shoshone sisters, Carrie and Mary Dann, as they seek to retain their treaty rights to their lands in north central Nevada. They graze their animals on the open range outside their ranch - a range that was recognized as Western Shoshone land by the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley. In 1974 the U.S. sued the sisters for trespassing on U.S. Public Land. That set off a dispute between the Danns and the United States that raged to the Supreme Court and beyond. The United States has also confiscated over a thousand of their livestock in five terrifying round-ups. After trying to plead their case to various U.S. courts and governmental agencies, they ultimately take their case to the United Nations.  Map of Shoshone Lands)

     • Bush on Tribal Sovereignty (on the difficulty in defining Tribal Sovereignty)

     • Idaho's Forgotten Way  Documentary on the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho and Amy Trice, the Chairwoman who declared war on the US Government to reclaim their land and human rights in Bonners Ferry, Idaho in 1974. Film will reflect the experiences of the Kootenai people's feelings and those who experienced the war first hand.   A YouTube preview

     • Red Man's Greed (South Park 2006) 

     • L3 Selected Video

    

3. The World of the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) and Schitsu’umsh (Coeur d’Alene) - (Indigenous - Animal Peoples Riverbed)

   1. Oral Traditions: Preparing the World for the Coming of the Human Peoples

      • Amo’tqen and the Creator

      • First Peoples/Animal Peoples: Coyote, Crane, Rabbit and Jack Rabbit, Chief Child of the Yellow Root, and "Preparing the world of the coming of Human Peoples."

      • "Landscape" – Monsters, Mountains and Lakes, Camas and Deer, Mi'yep, and Suumesh and Weyekin

      • Mi'yep or "Teachings" – Unity, Equality, Transcendence, Meaning, Life-force, Qualitative, Mystery, Participation, and the Ethic of Sharing; the Indigenous Values of Plateau Peoples

      • Human People's Goal in Life and the Means to Realize that Goal (issues of responsibility, paths and a way of life)

      • Readings:  

        • Frey pp. 109 - 151, 182 - 186 and 182 - 204

        • Indigenous Spiritual Values of the Plateau Peoples (for a discussion of "cultural values")

        • Nimiipu Landscape

        • Salmon Always Goes Up River

      • Videos:

        • Presentations of oral traditions from the Schitsu'umsh, Nimiipu and Warm Springs Web L3 Modules (TEMPORARILY DOWN)

        • L3 Selected Video

       

   2. Gifts Received and Shared: Perpetuating the World

      1. Storytelling, the Oral Traditions, and Ways of Knowing

         • Issues of Translation and Interpretation: Orality and Literacy

         • Techniques of Storytelling

         • Power in Words

         • Purposes of the Traditions: Integrative, Educate, Entertain, Creative, but not Explanatory

         • Toward understanding an Indigenous Epistemology

         • Readings: 

           • Frey pp. 187 - 204

           • On Storytelling

           • Heart Knowledge - An Indigenous Epistemology

           • On Loss of Language

           • Salmon Always Goes Up River (reiterate)

           • Issues in Interpretation: one example and some baggage to sort through: on Descartes (especially Mediation 3; optional)

         •  Videos:

           • Discussion of "Preparations" to the oral traditions along with many "great stories" in the Schitsu'umsh Web L3 Module (TEMPORARILY DOWN)

           • L3 Selected Video

           • a KXLY News clip on the Coeur d'Alene Language, aired 16 Oct 09
             

      2. Seasonal Round and Home Territories: Digging the Camas, Fishing the Salmon, Gathering the Huckleberries, Hunting the Deer, Collecting the Cedar and Tule Reeds, and the Associated Ceremonials.  Spring: subsistence (gathering and roots), intertribal relations (language, trade and warfare) — Summer: subsistence (fishing and salmon, and buffalo); home territory and travel with horse; clothing, housing and tules, and canoes; religion (vision quest, shamans and healing) — Fall and Winter: subsistence (animals and hunting); social organization (villages, marriage, band leaders, peace and war leaders, and councils; arts, stick game and entertainment; storytelling Creation Stories and the Oral Traditions, e.g., the Coyote Cycle from Celilo Falls to the Heart of the Monster.

         • Readings: 

           • Ackerman ch. 3 and 4

           • Frey pp. 22 - 49, 152 - 176, and 204 -211 

           • Hunn ch. 4 and 5

           • Nez Perce Seasonal Round

         • Videos: 

           • Faithful To Continuance (58 min., a wonderful introduction to the arts of the Plateau peoples, including various types of weaving practices and styles, as well as other contemporary arts, all linked to the landscape.  Featuring some of the key artist today.  Mimbres Fever 2002.)

           • Seasons of the Salish  (27 min., great introduction to the seasonal round.)

           • Return to the River (8 min., a rare view of the salmon fishing techniques used at Celilo Falls prior to the destruction of the falls in 1956.  A 1951 documentary by Harry Paget.)

           • Seasonal round pages from the Schitsu'umsh, Nimiipu and Warm Springs Web L3 Modules (TEMPORARILY DOWN)

           • L3 Selected Video
             

      3. Social Relations Among the "Peoples"

      • Intertribal Relations

      • Chiefs and Kinsmen: headmen, bands, family, gender, elders, and giveaways

      • Handgame: a family tradition

      • Readings: 

        • Ackerman ch. 3 and 4

        • Frey pp. 42 - 45, 168 - 172, and 250 - 256

        • Hunn ch. 6

        • Kinship and Family and Terminology Chart

      • Videos:

        • Growing Up Nimíipuu (on family and leadership) Web L3 module (TEMPORARILY DOWN)

        • Handgame  (65 min., a 2000 Larry Johnson film, Handgame/Stick Game instructions)

        • L3 Selected Video

      4. Spiritual Relations (re-visiting the Oral Traditions)

      • Pow Wow: Song, Dance, and Regalia

      • Suumesh and Weyekin: nature of, how acquired, and how applied

      • What's in a Name?

      • Vision Questing and Rites of Passage

      • Jump Dance and the Spirit Dance

      • Health and Healing: Shaman, Sweat House, and Efficacy

      • Readings:  

        • Frey 45 - 49, 176 - 186, and 211 - 240 

        • Hunn ch. 7

        • Sections: B.1 (Suumesh and Weyekin), D.4-6 (Medicine Acquired, Applied, Efficacy), and E. (Conclusion) from Indigenous Spiritual Values of the Plateau Peoples

        • Rites of Passage and Diagram

        • Ackerman ch. 3 and 4 (review)

      • Videos:

        • Pow Wow pages in the Coeur d'Alene and Nez Perce Web L3 modules (TEMPORARILY DOWN)

        • L3 Selected Video

      • Supplemental:

        • Revitalization Movements

      5. Returning to the Mountains: Death, Memorial Give Away, and Preparing the Camp.  

         • Readings: 

           • Frey pp. 240 - 250

      6. Its Home. The goals in life and means to those goals.  "To run with the Coyote."  

         • Readings:  

           • Frey pp.  257 - 268 

4. Graduate student presentations on other peoples and topical area of the Plateau (each presentation should run a minimum of 30 minutes in length, but no more than 45 minutes: 

Events and Activities include:

• Graduate Student Presentations: 

  • October 21: Renea, Tam, and Tiffany

  • ??  Amber and Nicole

• On-campus Events:

  • September 17 - Presentation by Cliff SiJohn, a Coeur d'Alene Elder. TLC 40 at 6:00 pm 

  • September 26 - "From the Tribal Court Bench" for more information

  • October 13 - Tipi Raising: on the lawn just east of the Commons   11:00 am

  • October 13  "Meaning of Columbus Day."  Charmaine White Face 7:00 pm Aurora Room of the Commons

  • November 18 -  Angelique EagleWoman AIST Distinguished American Indian Speaker's Series - College of Law Court Room at 6:00 pm

  • other events TBA

• Field Trips: four dates will be scheduled: 

  • September 12  - Coeur d'Alene Reservation, including stop at the Schitsu'umsh Language Program (Official Web Site of Coeur d'Alene Tribe)

  • September 20 - "Idaho's Forgotten War" world premier at the Rex Theater in Bonners Ferry, at 1:00 pm  for more information

  • October 24 - Water Potato Gathering on Lake Coeur d'Alene  visit past years: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

  • November 7  - Nez Perce Reservation, and Nez Perce National Historic Park, Tribal Administration, along with the Cherry Lane Fish Hatchery, and maybe a few salmon along Lapwai Creek.  visit past years: 2008

  • Field Trip Wavers  and Driver's Forms

Important Dates:

• First Exam Date:  September 30 (or at completion of the Methodology and Winds of Change sections) -  Study Guide

• Second Exam Date:  November 6 (tentative date)

• Project Proposal Due Date: November 11,    if not before

• Projects Due Date: Friday December 12 by 4:00 pm

• Course Evaluation is due by December TBA

• Final Exam Date:  Tuesday December 16 at 6:00 pm

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