Results for NATIVEAM

With the 2012 endorsement of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, organizations are forming to help bring economic growth to rural communities around the world. The Indigenous Peoples in Africa and the Americas live on lands needed for increased agricultural production in the coming generation. Lecture series on ethics of development, restraints and opportunities in indigenous communities. Students will select a region, review the history and rights and develop an approach for the communities to restore their cultures and participate fairly in future economic growth.

What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading to in-class moot court trials: colonial encounters and colonizing discourses; frontiers and boundaries; and sovereignty of self and nation. Topics include gender in native communities, American Indian law, readings by native authors, and Indians in film and popular culture.

The history of competing tribal and Western economic models, and the legal, political, social, and cultural implications for tribal economic development. Case studies include mineral resource extraction, gaming, and cultural tourism. 21st-century strategies for sustainable economic development and protection of political and cultural sovereignty.

How the federal government placed education at the center of its Indian policy in second half of 19th century, subjecting Native Americans to programs designed to erase native cultures and American Indian responses to those programs. Topics include traditional Indian education, role of religious groups, Meriam Report, Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Act, Johnson-O'Malley Act, and public schools.

Seminar examines the impact of colonialism on gender roles & gender relations in American Indian communities beginning with the 17th century. Topics include demographic changes, social transformations associated with major subsistence and settlement changes, biological and spiritual assaults, economic transformations and the dynamism of native societies. Sources include history, ethnography, biography, autobiography and the novel.

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143A.)Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography, Black Elk Speaks.

Cases, legislation, comparative justice models, and historical and cultural material. The interlocking relationships of tribal, federal, and state governments. Emphasis is on economic development, religious freedom, and environmental justice issues in Indian country.

The period of time-1880 to 1920-is a time when many important events in American Indian history occurred. Hoxie's historical work provides a framework for analyzing what effects these policies had on American Indian people. His work does not provide an American Indian perspective; he stated at the onset, that this was not an objective in this study. His main objective was to present a study that shows Indians' relations with whites as a "clash of two complex cultures" from a white point of view (Hoxie xxi). Three American Indians writing during this time period provide the needed Indian perspective lacking in Hoxie's work.

(Graduate students register for 238.) Demographic, political, and economic processes and events that shaped relations between Euro-Americans and American Indians, 1600-1890. How the intersection of these processes affected the outcome of conflicts between these two groups, and how this conflict was decisive in determining the social position of American Indians in the late 19th century and the evolution of the doctrine of tribal sovereignty.

(Graduate students register for 239.) The social position of American Indians in contemporary American society, 1890 to the present. The demographic resurgence of American Indians, changes in social and economic status, ethnic identification and political mobilization, and institutions such as tribal governments and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Recommended: 138 or a course in American history.

Western medicine's definition of health as the absence of sickness, disease, or pathology; Native American cultures' definition of health as the beauty of physical, spiritual, emotional, and social things, and sickness as something out of balance. Topics include: historical trauma; spirituality and healing; cultural identity; values and acculturation; and individual, school, and community-based interventions. Prerequisite: experience working with American Indian communities.