Dr. Debra Barker

English 347/547

Topic Reports

 

  1. Tipis from A to Z:  Creation, design, maintenance

 

  1. Toys and games (2 reports)

 

  1. Divorce in Native America

 

  1. Lakota/Plains women’s clothing

 

  1. Beadwork

 

  1. Quillwork

 

  1. Baskets

 

  1. Pottery

 

  1. Jewelry

 

  1. Iroquois clan mothers

 

  1. Medicine women

 

  1. A Woman’s First Moon-Ceremonies  (2 reports)

 

  1. Two-Hearted Spirits: the blurring of gender roles and sexual identities in Native America

 

  1. Spider Woman

 

  1. Changing Woman

 

  1. The Trickster Figure in Ojibwe Culture

 

  1. Anna Mae Aquash (Micmac)

 

  1. Molly Brant (Iroquois)

 

  1. Eloise Cobell (Blackfeet)

 

  1. Ada Deer (Menominee)

 

  1. Susette La Flesche (Omaha)

 

  1. Joy Harjo (Creek)

 

  1. Roberta Hill (Oneida)

 

  1. Winona La Duke (Ojibwe)

 

  1. Wendy Rose (Hopi/Miwok)

 

  1. Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee)

 

22.    Maria Tallchief (Osage)

 

  1.  Nancy Ward (Cherokee)

 

  1.  Sarah Winnemucca (Paiute)

 

  1. Zitkala Sa (Gertrude Bonnin) (Sioux)): Who is she?  What is her contribution?

 

  1. AIM  (The American Indian Movement)

 

  1. The Standoff at Wounded Knee)

 

  1. The Dawes Act

 

  1.  Standards of Beauty (See the The Woman’s Way by the editors of Time-Life Books)

 

  1.  Forced Sterilization of Native Women

 

  1.  The Boarding School System in America

 

  1.  Canadian Boarding School Survivors Sue the Catholic Church

 

  1. The Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890

 

  1. The Sand Creek Massacre