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Ishi was a member of the Yahi, a group of the Yana people of California. His survival and generosity in sharing the knowledge of his people left a cultural legacy for a people destroyed by the settlement of California. This course honors Ishi's legacy by focusing on the resistance and renewal of Native people in California. California has one of the largest American Indian populations; including tribal members from every corner of the nation, large numbers settled in urban metropolises, some with thriving economic enterprises, and others still desperately poor. This course spotlights American Indians in California, addressing the most pressing issues facing them in the 21st century. The course is organized around meetings featuring speakers who are acknowledged experts about American Indian issues in California, including leaders and advocates of Native people in the state.

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 course explores the role of Indian Country in American History, Law, Economics, Literature, Popular Culture, Identity and Imagination. The course addresses frontier cultural intersections and representations, dueling political, economic and spiritual philosophies, and tribal survivance. Specific analysis will be given to the built environment (casinos, tourist destinations), landscapes (historic battlegrounds, sacred geography), and constructed realities/fictions (film, sports mascots).

Demographic, political, and economic history of California Indians, 1700s-1950s. Processes and events leading to the destruction of California tribes, and their effects on the groups who survived. Geographic and cultural diversity. Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American periods. The mission system.

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.

(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.