Introduction to American
Indian Studies
203
Aesthetic and Philosophical Universes
Syllabus
Exam Two Grade Scale
Exam One Grade Range and Scale
Spring
2007
Sample Exam One from 2006
Sample Visual Exam Three 2006
Instructions for Downloading and
Using Quicktime Movie Files
Required
Readings on PDF files
Gary Witherspoon Emergence Narratives
Charles Mann 1491
Felix Cohen
Americanizing the Whiteman in The Legal
Conscience
Scott Pratt Native Pragmatism
Raymond DeMallie Sioux Indian Religion
Jack Weatherford Chapter 5
Indian Agriculture Technology in Indian Givers
Jack Weatherford Chapter 6
The
Culinary Revolution in Indian Givers
Jack
Weatherford Chapter 8 The Founding Fathers in Indian Givers
Gary
Witherspoon Chapters 3&4 and Introduction to Part 2 in
Dynamic Symmetry . . .
W.E.B. Du Bois as Scholar and
Philosopher of Diversity
Course Lectures Part One
Introduction Lecture I as PDF file
Introduction Lecture I as Quick Time
movie
Lecture III movie: Mystery of
the Maya 768x576
Lecture III movie: Mayan
World 320x240.mov
Lecture III movie: Mayan
World 768x576
Lecture III movie: Maya
Legacy Today
Lecture III movie: Maya Legacy Conclusion
Lecture III movie: Popul Vuh
Introduction
Lecture IVA (Taino, Cahokia and DeSoto) as a PDF file
Introduction
Lecture IVA (Taino, Cahokia and DeSoto) as a
QT Movie
Lecture
IV movie: Teotihucan
Lecture IV movie:
Columbus
and the Taino
Lecture IV movie:
Genocide and Las Casas
Lecture IV movie: DeSoto's Rampage through
the US Southeast
Introduction
Lecture IVB (The Aztec and the Invasion of the Mexica by Cortez)
as a PDF file
Lecture IV movie: Aztec
History and
Cortez's
Invasion 768x576
Exam One April 17
Iroquois I Social and
Political
Organization as PDF file
Iroquois I Social and Political Organization as QT
Movie
Iroquois II Ritual,
Agricultural and Recreational Culture as PDF file
Iroquois II Ritual, Agricultural and Recreational
Culture as QT file
Videos for the
Iroquois Section
PM-Nature
and the Garden
Gonondagan
Gannagaro
Great
Wampum Law
Iroquois
Artist
Onondaga
Iroquois in 1970
Iroquois Confederacy and
the Revolutionary War
As Long as the Grass
Shall Grow by
Johnny Cash:
Kinsua Dam and the
Broken
Treaty of 1794 signed by George Washington
First Nations
Impact on Second American and Global Culture
Impact: Sports,
Agriculture and Political Philosophy as a PDF file
Impact: Sports,
Agriculture and Political Institutions as a QT movie
Impact: Philosophy as a PDF file
Impact: Philosophy as a QT
movie
Impact: Intellectual
Mining as a PDF file
Videos for First Nations Impact
Section
Jim
Thorpe
PM-Iroquois
Woman
Indian
Removal
Powatan
& Pochohantus
Plymouth
Thanksgiving
Phillip's
War
All
Former Endras
More than Bows and Arrows
Indians, Outlaws and Angie
Debo
Feature Length
Films
Relevant to Iroquois and Impact Section
Broken Chain
The
Education of Little Tree
Lakota
Impact: Additional
Indigenous Contributions as a PDF file
Impact:
Additional Indigenous Contributions as a QT movie
Lakota
in General as a PDF file
Lakota in General as
a QT movie
Lakota Vision Quest as a
PDF file
Lakota Vision Quest
as a QT movie
Lakota Sundance as a PDF file
Lakota Sundance as a
QT movie
Black Elk One as a PDF file
Black Elk One as a QT
Movie
Black Elk Two as a PDF file
Black Elk Two as a QT
movie
Required Films
Relevant to Lakota Section that are not in the lecture QT files above
Eyanopapi
Crazy
Horse and Custer (This has a long title)
The Death of
Crazy Horse (This has a long title)
Spirit
of Crazy Horse
Wiping
Away
the Tears from Seven Generations
Relevant Films to Lakota Section
that are in the QT movie files above
Buffalo Dance
Black Elk
The
Hero's Journey
Wounded Knee
Conquest
of the Columbia (this is a longer version than the one in the QT file
above)
Exam
Two, Tuesday, June 5, 4:30-6:30 This is a change from the
Syllabus!
Feature Length
Film
Relevant to the Lakota Section but not required
Thunderheart