Topics, Assignments and Session Dates: 

• August 20 - September 12 - Historical and Cultural Overview

  • Review the Approach to the Seminar; Syllabus Review and Seminar Organization; Review of what each of us knows: a base from which we can start the seminar and a general background on American Indian History and Culture 

  • Readings and Web Video: 

    • Spiritual Values of the Indian (from ANTH 329 and 422/522)

    • Pre-Contact Schitsu'umsh Culture from Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane

    • Schitsu'umsh Territory and Map (HTML) from Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane

    • Crow Family and Kinship

    • Schitsu'umsh Culture (sixteen web pages on oral traditions, story, song, and "heart knowledge")

    • Nimíipuu Culture (twelve web pages on oral traditions, song, family and community life, and seasonal round)

    • Emerging American Values (from ANTH 329 and 422/522) 

    • Schitsu'umsh Contact History (part 1) and Schitsu'umsh Contact History (part 2) from Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane

    • Interview with Cliff SiJohn, as he considers what it means to be Coeur d'Alene, to be "wounded," and to have "heart knowledge." (in 12 parts; approximately sixty minutes in length)

    • Coeur d'Alene Executive Orders

    • Nimíipuu History (five web pages)

    • Nez Perce Treaty of 1855

    • Dawes Act 1887

    • Cobell Settlement 2009

    • True Salmon Fishing!

    • Bush on Tribal Sovereignty

    • Summary 

    • Link to ANTH 329 Schedule

    • To access .pdf printable files,  

    • To access .rm streaming videos.   Remember, videos can be enlarged by dragging your mouse on the bottom right corner.    For a free version, .  

  • Recommended Web Modules: 

    • Schitsu'umsh (Coeur d'Alene) and Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) Lifelong Learning Online (URL sites); also consider the Coeur d'Alene Native Names Project

  • Activity:

    • September 7 - Tipi Raising, the lawn just east of the Commons. at 9:00 am and again at 12 noon

    • September 12 - Cliff SiJohn, Cultural Affairs Committee, Coeur d'Alene Tribe, AgSci 106  6:00 pm

• September 17 and 19 - Identity and Sovereignty

  • Readings:

    • from Champagne, "Native Identity" pp.11-12, Mihesuah and Churchill pp. 13-58 (Group 1)

    • from Johnson, "Nationalism and Internationalism" pp. 15-16, Churchill pp. 15-43, and pp. 99-101, Quesenberry 103-114 (Group 2) 

  • Reading:

    •   Sovereignty and Assimilation (from ANTH 329 and 422/522)

  • Video:

    • 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)

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

     

• September 24 and 26 - Sovereignty

  • Sovereignty and Local Challenges (guest speaker: Arthur Taylor, Tribal Liaison, U of I - September 24) 

  • continue discussion on sovereignty issues and Johnson, "Nationalism and Internationalism" (Group 2) 

  • Recommended Web Site: 

    • Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (See GA resolution for text of full declaration)

    • United Nations Declaration on Rights on Indigenous Peoples

    • Key Indian - State Jurisdictional Cases (See Idaho vs. United State to review the Supreme Court Decision on ownership of the southern third of Lake Coeur d'Alene)

• October 1 and 3 -  Cultural Property Rights 

  • Cultural Property Rights, Religious Freedoms, and Local Challenges (guest speaker: Josiah BlackEagle Pinkham, Tribal Ethnographer, Nez Perce Tribe - October 1 - re-scheduled for later in October) 

  • Readings:

    • from Johnson, "Repatriation" pp. 227-228, Peregoy pp. 229-254, and Goldberg pp.275-280  (Group 3)

  • Suggested Readings:  

    • Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology and the Battle for Native American Identity.  David Hurst Thomas  Basic Books: 2000.

    • NAGPRA - Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

    • ARPA - Archaeological Resources Protection Act

  • Recommended Web Site:

    • Nimíipuu Lifelong Learning Online Cultural Property Rights Agreement 

  • Recommended Forms: 

    • Nez Perce Tribal Research Permit

  • Video:

    • Ishi: The Last Yahi  (57 min., a 1992 Pamela Roberts film.  In the early 1900s, Ishi, the last of the Yahi Indian tribe, is discovered nearly 20 years after the Yahi tribe was thought to be wiped out. The Alfred Kroeber agrees to look after him, hoping to learn more about his him, his tribe, and their beliefs, and to teach him to survive in the modern world.  It is a story of friendship, and of cultural destruction.  username: anth329  password: indians)

  • Activity:

    • October 3 - American Indian Basketweaver's Demonstration - AIST Program Distinguished American Indian Speaker's Series - SUB Ballroom 7:00

 

• October 8 and 10 - Economic Development and Law

  • Law and Local Challenges (guest speaker: Julie Kane, Managing Attorney Nez Perce Tribe - October 10 ) 

  • Readings:

    • from Johnson, "Gaming and Economic Development" pp 135-137, Trosper pp. 139-158, and Anders pp. 163-170  (Group 4)

    • from Johnson, " Law and Justice" pp 175-177, Green pp. 179-191, and Goldberg pp. 197-221  (Group 5)

  • Activity:

    • October 8 - Tipi raising on the lawn just east of the Commons at 9:00 am  Tipi Background

    • October 8 - Iris Pretty Paint - "Indigenous Visions of Success: Integration of Culture, Family and Academics"  Commons Aurora room at 1:00 pm

 

• October 15 and 17 - Gender, Education and Culture

  • Cultural Issues (guest speaker: Steve Martin, Director, Native American Center, U of I - October 17)

  • Readings and Web Clips:

    • from Champagne, "Gender" pp. 69-70, Brant pp. 91-100, and Miller pp. 103-123 (Group 6)

    • from Champagne, "Powwow" pp. 127-128, Mattern pp. 129-141, and Lassiter, pp. 145-162 (Group 1)

    • "Rape in Indian Country" - Laura Sullivan's reporting on National Public Radio, Part 1 - July 25, 2007 and Part 2 - July 26, 2007

  • Suggested Reading: 

    • Lillian Ackerman.  A Necessary Balance: Gender and Power among Indians of the Columbia Plateau.  2003.

  • Video:

    • Indigenizing the Curriculum (part 1 - 41 min. introduced by Karen Guilfoyle, part 2 - 28 min. on stereotypes and images, and part 3 - 18 min.; a 2003 U of I Distinguished American Indian Speaker's Series talk by Devon Mihesuah, Department of Applied Indigenous Studies, Arizona State University)

  • Recommended Web Sites: 

    • On Songs, Dance and Powwow of the Schitsu'umsh (begin here); On Songs, Dance and Powwow of the Nimíipuu (begin here) 

  • Activity:

    • October 15 - "Our Land, Our Life" -  Silver-Gold Rooms of SUB, 6:30 pm

     

• October 22 and 24 - Culture and Language

  • Culture and Language Preservation, and the Cultural Resources Office  (guest speaker: Josiah BlackEagle Pinkham, Tribal Ethnographer, Nez Perce Tribe  )

  • Readings:

    • continuation of discussion from Champagne, "Powwow" pp. 127-128, Mattern pp. 129-141, and Lassiter, pp. 145-162 (Group 1)

  • Recommended Web Sites: 

    • Schitsu'umsh Language Program - Official Web Site of Coeur d'Alene Tribe

    • On Songs, Dance and Powwow of the Schitsu'umsh (begin here); On Songs, Dance and Powwow of the Nimíipuu (begin here)

  • Activity:

    • October 24 - Josiah BlackEagle Pinkham, Ethnographer, Nez Perce Tribe.  AgSci 106 7:00 pm

    • October 25 - "Pow Wow Comedy Jam: Trail of Laughs"  Administration Building Auditorium  8:00 pm  General Admission: $5 and Student w/ID $1

• October 29, 31 and November 5  - Environment and Natural Resources

  • Wolf Recovery and Natural Resources (guest speaker: Aaron Miles, Manager, Natural Resources Department, Nez Perce Tribe - October 29  postponed) 

  • The Return of the Himiin (video and guest speaker: Nicolas Barbier - November 5)

  • Readings:

    • from Champagne, "Environmental Issues" pp. 275-276, Waller pp. 277-290, and Wolfley pp. 293-304  (Group 2)

  • Video:

    • 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)

  • Recommended Reading: 

    • Salmon and the Columbia River: Continuities and Challenges - historical overview

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

  • October 31 - Prospectus on Project Due 

• November  7 - Health

  • Guest speaker: Aaron Miles, Manager, Natural Resources Department, Nez Perce Tribe - November 7) 

  • Readings:

    • from Champagne, "Health" pp. 225-226, May pp. 227-240 and Pego and others pp. 245-262 (Group 3)

  • Recommended Reading: 

    • American Indian Diets and Nutritional Research

 

• November 12 and 14 - Film and Media

  • Required Readings:

    • from Champagne, "Film" pp. 167-168, Whitt pp. 169-185, Leuthold pp. 193-213, and Brumbaugh pp. 217-224 (Group 4)

• November 26 and 28 

  • ad hoc topic(s) (to be determined) (Group 5 and 6)

• December 3 and 5 

  • Student Presentations of Research Projects (students will offer a synopsis of their research, bringing forth highlights and insights, and lasting around 10 minutes, followed by 5 to 10 minutes of Q and A and discussion). 

  • Reflective Journals and Research Projects are due on December 6

Possible Speakers include:

• D'Lisa Pinkham, Nez Perce Tribe

• Aaron Miles, Nez Perce Natural Resource Manager -  Aaron Miles Interview

• Arthur Taylor, Liaison for Tribal Affairs, University of Idaho 

• Barbara Aston, Liaison for Tribal Affairs, Office of the Provost, Washington State University

• Steve Martin, Director, Native American Student Center, University of Idaho

• Josiah Pinkham, Nez Perce Tribal Ethnographer, Office of Cultural Resources

• Julie Kane, Legal Council for the Nez Perce Tribe

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