Anthropology 325

Instructor: Daniel Strouthes.

Instructor's Telephone: 836-2843. Office: P 246. E-mail: STROUTDP@UWEC.EDU; Webpage: www.uwec.edu/stroutdp

Required Course Books:

In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton.

The Ten Grandmothers by Alice Marriot.

Sun Chief by Leo Simmons/Don Talayesva.

The Cibecue Apache by Keith Basso.

Smoke From Their Fires by Clellan S. Ford/Charley Nowell.

America's Fascinating Indian Heritage by The Reader's Digest

Part 1: Introduction.

Reading: "Why Did They Die?" Author: Francis Black (handout). Please have this material read by 1/31/07.

Part 2: Archeology of North America.

Reading: America's Fascinating Indian Heritage, Pp. 10-79.

Videotape: Southwest archeology. Please have this material read by 2/8/07.

Part 3: The Northeast.

Reading: "Northern Iroquoian Culture Patterns." Author: William N. Fenton. Pp. 296-321 in Vol. 15, Northeast, of the Handbook of North American Indians, William Sturtevant and Bruce Trigger, eds. (Ereserve)

America's Fascinating Indian Heritage. Pictures, captions and boxed sections, pp. 110-153.Please have this material read by 2/15/07.

Part 4: The Southeast.

Reading: America's Fascinating Indian Heritage. Pictures, captions and boxed sections, pp. 80-109.Please have this material read by 2/22/07.

Part 5: The Plains.

Reading: The Ten Grandmothers.

America's Fascinating Indian Heritage. Pictures, captions and boxed sections, pp. 154-203.Please have this material read by 2/27/07.

First Examination March 6.

Part 6: The Southwest.

Reading: Sun Chief.

Videotape: Seasons of a Navajo.

The Cibecue Apache.

America's Fascinating Indian Heritage. Pictures, captions and boxed sections, pp. 204-249. Please have this material read by 3/13/07.

Part 7: The Great Basin.

America's Fascinating Indian Heritage. Pictures, captions and boxed sections, pp. 250-261. Please have this material read by 4/5/07.

Part 8: California.

America's Fascinating Indian Heritage. Pictures, captions and boxed sections, pp. 262-279.Please have this material read by 4/10/07.

Second Examination April 12.

Part 9: The Northwest Coast.

Videotape: In the Land of the War Canoes/Crooked Beak of Heaven.

Reading: Smoke From Their Fires.

America's Fascinating Indian Heritage. Pictures, captions and boxed sections, pp. 288-327. Please have this material read by 4/24/07.

Part 10: Plateau.

America's Fascinating Indian Heritage. Pictures, captions and boxed sections, pp. 280-287. Please have this material read by 4/28/07.

Part 11: The Subarctic.

Videotape: Cree Hunters of Mistassini.

America's Fascinating Indian Heritage. Pictures, captions and boxed sections, pp. 328-353. Please have this material read by 5/1/07.

Part 12: North American Indian Music.

Part 13: The Indian in Contemporary North America.

Videotape: Indian Country.

Reading: In Search of April Raintree.

There will also be a handout containing several articles pertaining to contemporary North American aboriginal life.

Supplementary Bibliography:

Deloria, Vine, Jr. 1969. Custer Died for Your Sins. New York: Macmillan.

Fagan, Brian. 2000. Ancient North America, 3rd ed. Thames & Hudson: New York.

Fenton, William N.. 1998. The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy. Civilization of the American Indian Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Krech, Shepard III. 1999. The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: W. W. Norton.

Kroeber, A.L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

Llewellyn, Karl N. and E. Adamson Hoebel. 1941. The Cheyenne Way. Civilization of the American Indian Series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Mooney, James. 1896. The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1965.

O'Brien, Sharon. 1989 American Indian Tribal Governments. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Spicer, Edward H. 1962. Cycles of Conquest. Tucson: University Of Arizona Press.

Sturtevant, William C., et. al., eds. 1978-. Handbook of North American Indians. 20 volumes. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Swanton, J.R. 1911. Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi and adjacent coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 43. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

Final exam schedule: http://www.uwec.edu/Registrar/student/exams/index.htm

With the exception of the first handout reading, all readings will be followed by a lengthy discussion in which students will be encouraged to participate. Prior to the discussion, I will hand out a list of questions which will be discussed in class.

There will also be several videos presented during the course of the semester. Several of these will be followed by discussion. Here too, I will hand out a list of discussion questions.

Course Objective: This course will provide students with a basic understanding of the cultures, societies, archeology, and physical anthropology of the aboriginal peoples of North America.

Course Requirements

Student performance will be evaluated on the basis of two midterm examinations and a final examination, which will all carry equal weight (33 1/3% each). The examinations will cover the assigned readings and the material presented in class. You may expect essay, identification and short answer questions on your exams. All three types of questions will present you with choices: you will not be presented at any time with a case in which you must answer any particular question in order to achieve a score of 100% on an exam.

The material covered in the exams will come from class lecture material, videos, assigned readings, and discussions of the readings and videos. You may expect questions that cover material presented ONLY in the readings, and not in class.

Essay questions give some students difficulty. However, being able to write well is of prime importance, and this skill improves with practice.

Grades will be computed on point basis, using the following scale:

90: A

88: A-

85: B+

80: B

78: B-

75: C+

70: C

68: C-

65: D+

60: D

58: D-

Below 58: F

Books are available at the bookstore (or alternatively you may buy them used from amazon.com; alibris.com; abebooks.com). All books are for purchase, with the exception of Sun Chief, The Ten Grandmothers, and America's Fascinating Indian Heritage, which are rentals. The Cibecue Apache, In Search of April Raintree and Smoke From Their Fires are available at Crossroads Books on Barstow at a discount.

Class participation is highly encouraged. Frequent and thoughtful participation will generally increase knowledge of the subject material.

Class attendance is required. Official university policy is that all students are expected to attend all classes. I will take attendance each class period, but there is no penalty for missing class. However, students with poor attendance records almost always have tremendous difficulties with course examinations, and several such students have failed the course in the past. Make-up exams will be scheduled only for students who present a written confirmation of significant illness or injury from the University Health Service or private physician. Finally, it is the student's responsibility to obtain class material missed from a competent classmate.

Any student who has a professionally certified disability and needs classroom accommodation please contact me AND the Office of Students with Disabilities (S 201, 836-4542) during the first week of classes.

Classroom behavior: private conversation between students unrelated to the class material is prohibited during the class period. Cell phones will be turned off prior to coming to class. No food is to be consumed during class, although drinking of permitted beverages is allowed. All beverage containers must be opened prior to the start of the lecture.

Finally, I will not discuss grades or test performance through the use of email. You must see me in person for information of this nature.

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire baccalaureate degrees have eleven (11) goals. General Education courses (such as this one) are designed to meet some (but not all) of these goals. Each student is also supposed to keep a portfolio of class assignments, projects, and other materials that demonstrate how they have met these goals through your courses (http://www.uwec.edu/AcadAff/policies/assessment/FAQ-students.htm You may scan your exams into a PDF file to upload them.). The goals are listed in the table below along with references to particular assignments that you could save to demonstrate work toward that particular goal.