Plateau Indians
ANTH 422/522 - Fall 2008
Schedule
of Course Topics,
Exam and Other Important Dates,
and Reading Assignments
Tentative, Subject to Change
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Blackfoot Lodge on the U of I campus, October of 2000 |
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:
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
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,
.
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 War 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"
"History" as a construct
Support Materials:
Nez Perce Treaty Council of 1855 (still images)
Salmon (outline of still images and key historical events)
Nez Perce - North Central Idaho Jurisdictional Alliance MOU
US/Tribes v. State of Washington, the 2007 ruling on Salmon and Culverts (great background history, in legal terminology)
Tocqueville's America of 1831
John Gast's "American Progress"
Meaning of Thanksgiving
Jerome Greene's account of the Nez Perce War of 1877, Nez Perce Summer 1877 (supplemental)
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)
Red Man's Greed (South Park 2006)
The World of the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) and Schitsuumsh (Coeur dAlene) - (Indigenous - Animal Peoples Riverbed)
Oral Traditions: Preparing the World for the Coming of the Human Peoples
Amotqen 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
Videos:
Presentations of oral traditions from the Schitsu'umsh, Nimiipu and Warm Springs Web L3 Modules (TEMPORARILY DOWN)
Gifts Received and Shared: Perpetuating the World
Storytelling, and the Oral Traditions
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
Readings:
Frey pp. 187 - 204
Salmon Always Goes Up River (reiterate)
Videos:
Discussion of "Preparations" to the oral traditions
along with many "great stories" in
the Schitsu'umsh
Web L3 Module (TEMPORARILY DOWN)
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
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.)
The Kalispel (16 min., an overview of the tribe as told by elders. Done in 2004)
Seasonal round pages from the Schitsu'umsh, Nimiipu and Warm Springs Web L3 Modules (TEMPORARILY DOWN)
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
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)
Spiritual Relations
Pow Wow: Song, Dance, and Regalia
Suumesh and Weyekin: Nature of, Acquired, and Applied
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
Ackerman ch. 3 and 4 (review)
Videos:
Pow Wow pages in the Coeur d'Alene and Nez Perce Web L3 modules (TEMPORARILY DOWN)
Supplemental:
Returning to the Mountains: Death, Memorial Give Away, and Preparing the Camp.
Readings:
Frey pp. 240 - 250
Its Home. The goals in life and means to those goals. "To run with the Coyote."
Readings:
Frey pp. 257 - 268
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:
On-campus Events:
September TBA - Tipi Raising: on the lawn just east of the Commons 9:00 am and again at 12 noon Tipi Background
September 17 - Presentation by Cliff SiJohn, a Coeur d'Alene Elder. TLC 40 6:00 pm
September 26 - "From the Tribal Court Bench" for more information
November TBA - AIST Distinguished American Indian Speaker's Series - TBA
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
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
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 13, 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 18 at 6:00 pm
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