To obtain a copy of the printed
syllabus, as distributed in class, please click here.
Reading Guide: each
week, questions will be distributed that can serve as a guide
for your readings by helping you to focus on specific subject
matter, in a way that is of direct relevance to the course. Each
week, those same questions will be available
here in PDF format.
(Note: the reading guide is now complete and up to date.)
For outlines of the lecture presentations,
please see below:
SETTING THE
STAGE FOR CONTEMPORARY INDIGENEITY
Session 1 (Tues., Sept. 4)--Opening
Remarks (notes)
Session 2 (Thurs., Sept. 6)--Outline,
case study notes
Session 3 (Tues., Sept.
11)--continuation from previous session, discussion of readings
THE SCIENCE,
IDEOLOGIES, AND PRACTICES OF EXTINCTION
The Capture of the Indigenous in the Social Sciences:
Extinction and Evolution
Session 4
(Thurs., Sept. 13)--Outline + Handout
Please have the readings assigned for
the second week done by Tuesday,
Sept. 18
Session 5
(Tues., Sept. 18)--Outline
“Genocide and Ethnocide:
Attempting Extinction in Practice”
Session 6 (Thurs., Sept. 20)--Outline
+ Handout
Film: Assimilation 101
"REAL INDIANS"?
"RACE" AND THE POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY INDIGENEITY
Certifiably Indian? Blood, DNA, Race
Session 7
(Tues., Sept. 25)--Outline + (discussion of last week's
readings)
Session 8
(Thurs., Sept. 27)--Outline + (initial discussion of this
week's readings, time permitting)
Contours of Renewed Indigeneity:
Self-Identification, Re-Identification, Recovery
Session 9
(Tues., Oct. 2)--Outline
Session 10 (Thurs., Oct.
4)--discussion of readings for last week, this week, and
distribution of questions for the mid-term Exam
Indigeneity in New
Settings, I: Urbanization & “Supratribalism”
Urban Natives:
Supratribalism and Translated Indigeneity
Session 11
(Tues., Oct. 9)--Outline
Session 12 (Thurs., Oct. 11)--discussion
of readings for this week, Film.
Indigeneity in New
Settings, II: Urbanization & “Supratribalism”
New Routes for
Roots: Indigenous Transnationalism
Session 13 (Tues., Oct. 16)--class
led by Marie France Germain
Session 14
(Thurs., Oct. 18)--Outline (continued on Oct. 23)
Anthropological Theories of
“Nativism,” Tradition, and Resurgence
Reflecting on
Anthropological Theories of Relevance to Resurgent Traditions
Session 15 (Tues., Oct.
23)--continuation of previous week
Session 16
(Thurs., Oct. 25)--Outline
Debates: Essentialism and
Construction, Tradition and Invention
Session 17 (Tues., Oct. 30)--continuation
of previous session
Session 18 (Thurs., Nov.
1)--Debate on Adam Kuper's "The Return of the Native"
Session 19 (Tues., Nov.
6)--discussion of assigned readings, esp. Hanson and Lattas
Indigenous Philosophies and
Theologies of Resurgence
Session 20 (Thurs., Nov.
8)--discussion of Wasase reading
Session 21 (Tues., Nov. 13)--Film;
discussion of remainder of readings for this section
Case Study: The Indian Movement in
the USA
Session 22
(Thurs., Nov. 15)--Outline
Session 23 (Tues., Nov. 20)--lecture,
cont'd; short discussion of assigned readings, come prepared to
ask questions of your own (reminder: research paper due; exam
questions assigned; student evaluations of the course)
EXTRA:
Select resources on the
Six Nations Land Reclamation (Caledonia, Ontario, 2006)
Case Study: Australian Aboriginals
and the Nation-State
Session 24
(Thurs., Nov. 22)--Outline
Online Documents (extra resources,
not distributed in class):
Maps:
YouTube
Videos:
Session 25
(Tues., Nov. 27)--Outline (cont'd from last session)
Session 26 (Thurs., Nov. 29)--LAST
CLASS, discussion of readings, exam, etc.
