Tu

Jan

30

Introduction

Part I – Stereotypes and Scattered Sources

Th

Feb

01

Creation Stories and Gendered Worldviews
        read: Navajo emergence story (handout)
        in-class exercise: Creation stories

Tu

Feb

06

Reading History
        Assignment 1: Fish Fertilizer: Indigenous or Not?

Th

Feb

08

Reading between the lines: Deeds and Images
         read: Nash, “None of the Women Were Abused”; Smits , “The Squaw Drudge”
        in-class exercise: Jane the Indian deed

Tu

Feb

13

Colonization and the Christian Life
         read: Baker , “A Scratch With A Bear's Paw,” start reading Pocahontas
        in-class exercise: “This little fury of Hell”

Th

Feb

15

Reading day
         read: Rountree, “Pocahontas,” in Sifters , pp. 14-28; continue reading Townsend, Pocahontas

Tu

Feb

20

A New World for All: Colonial Choices
         read: Shoemaker, “Kateri Tekakwitha” (on e-reserve*); Plane, “Sarah Ahhaton”

        * NOTE: the password for accessing articles on e-reserve is pocahontas

Th

Feb

22

Part II – Listening for Native Voices

Tu

Feb

27

Oral Tradition 1: Not a Game of “Telephone”
        read: Day , “Oral Tradition as Complement”; Kroeber, “An Introduction to the Traditional Art of American Indian Storytelling” (on e-reserve*)

Th

Mar

01

Oral Tradition 2: Secrets and Misdirection
         read: Sarris, “Telling Dreams and Keeping Secrets” (on e-reserve*)
        in-class exercise: Gabrio and the priest

Tu

Mar

06

Telling Women's Stories, Part 1
         read: Green, “Mary Musgrove” (pp. 29-47); Carson, “Molly Brant” (pp. 48-59); Barbie, “Sacagawea” (pp. 60-76), all in Sifters
        individual assignments: analyze biographies and bring in primary sources

Th

Mar

08

Telling Women's Stories, Part 2
         read: Moore, “Lozen” (pp. 92-107); Garceau, “Mourning Dove” (pp. 108-126); McBride, “Lucy Nicolar” (pp. 141-159), all in Sifters
        individual assignments: analyze biographies and bring in primary sources

Tu

Mar

13

Boarding schools in the 19th century
        read: Zitkala-sa, American Indian Stories, pp. v-xxv, 7-99

Th

Mar

15

Indigenous Women Authors of the 19th Century
         read: Zitkala-sa, pp. 185-195; Hafen, “Gertrude Simmons Bonin” (pp. 127-140 in Sifters ); Hopkins, Life Among the Piute, Ch. 1-4.

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Part III – Conflicting Testimonies

Tu

Mar

27

Moontime Practices
        FILM: The Sunrise Dance (28 min.)
         read: Wright, “The Woman's Lodge, Bell, “Speaking of Creek Men and Women”; start reading Lakota Woman

Th

Mar

29

Gender Roles
        read: Allen, “Lesbians in American Indian Cultures”; Agonito and Agonito, "Resurrecting History's Forgotten Women;; Little Thunder, “I Am A Lakota Womyn”

Tu

Apr

03

Identity in a Colonial World
        read: Memoir of Catharine Brown (online); Perdue, “Catharine Brown,” in Sifters , pp. 77-91.
        Assignment 4: Chapter analysis of Brown memoir v. Perdue article

Th

Apr

05

Reading Catharine Brown
        Guest lecture: Joel Martin (UMass-History and Dean, CHFA)

Tu

Apr

10

Telling Women's Stories, Part 3
         read: Reynolds, “Maria Montoya Martinez” (pp. 160-174); Hauptman, “Alice Lee Jemison” (pp. 175-186); Round, “Delfina Cuero” (pp. 187-203), all in Sifters
        individual assignments: analyze biographies and bring in primary sources

Th

Apr

12

TBA

Tu

Apr

17

Monday schedule -- No class

Th

Apr

19

Prelude to Wounded Knee, 1973
        read: Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman , Ch. 1-8

Tu

Apr

24

Indigenous Women and Representation
         Guest Speaker: Nancy Mithlo (Smith College)

Th

Apr

26

Lakota Woman
        read: Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman, Ch. 9-Epilogue

Tu

May

01

Revisiting the Past
         read: Devon Mihesuah, “Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash”; interview with the Maloney sisters; handouts
         FYI: Indigenous Women for Justice (scroll down to read "No Longer To Be Silenced By Fear," then browse as you please)

Th

May

03

The Expressive Arts: Film
        FILM: Honey Moccasin

Tu

May

08

Gender/Tribal Politics
         read: Hoikkala, “Feminists or Reformers?”; Lurie, “Ada Deer,” pp. 223-241 in Sifters
         individual assignments: analyze biographies and bring in primary sources

Th

May

10

The Expressive Arts: Music

Tu

May

15

LAST CLASS
        Take-home final exam due May 22.