Week #2
HIST 1301: US History I
Monday, Aug 31st
Contact
Songs
• Cortez the Killer, Neil Young:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSj5yOK_mt4
Objectivity vs Subjectivity
• Objectivity:
• Intended to be unbiased, measurable,
observable, fact based
• Semiotics (Someone Read These):
• Semantics: relation between signs
and the things to which they refer;
their meaning
• Syntactics: relations among or
between signs in formal structures
• Pragmatics: relation between signs
and sign-using agents
• “Ball in a Stream”
• MEF (6:13):
http://www.mediaed.org/cgibin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&
key=118
• Subjectivity:
• Based on personal opinions,
interpretations, points of view,
emotions and judgment
Sources: Define and List
• Primary:
• Something that was created at
the time under study
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Journals/Diaries
Arrowheads
Speeches
Court/Official Records
Creative works (art, music, etc.)
• Secondary:
• Created after the fact, based on
primary sources
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Text books
Magazine articles
History books/articles
Criticisms/commentaries
Encyclopedias
Legacy of Colonialism
• Quickly (graded on speed not accuracy):
• Draw the first thing that comes to your mind when I say “Native
American”
Legacy of Colonialism
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Why do certain images persist? (Write Down Two)
Lack of written sources detailing the Native perspective
People telling the story lived in genuine fear of violence
Images were cemented in pop culture
(“Cowboys and Indians”) [discuss creation stories]
Week #2
HIST 1301: US History I
Wednesday, Sept 31st
Contact
Songs
• Buffy Sainte-Marie, “My Country Tis Of Thy People”:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTqV1pnQoos
• Richard Pryor “Indians”:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAF3oEvGBiI
Contact
• Apocalypto (6:31): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3H_xsdr-Vs
• “True Size” map: http://thetruesize.com/
Papers
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Type your name, hit return (no titles/info)
No contractions
No first person
No “size” words
Print on both sides
Italics/titles
No colloquialisms
No “In the Yawp book it says this…”
Include page numbers for direct quotes, steer clear of long quotes
I do not want description/summary of what the author writes, I’m testing
your comprehension (I’ve read it)
• Be formal and give me a good effort, writing is much different than talking
Contact
• Who Discovered the Americas?
• What do we know about Columbus?
• The Columbus Day Myth
• We tend to leave out or diminish the
genocide fundamental to contact
• What was Columbus hired to do?
• Did people know what he
was doing was wrong?
• Bartolome de las Casas
Contact (Groups)
• Religion
• Economics
• Politics
• Family
• Indigenous People
• Europeans
Colonization vs. Resistance
• What are the ideal conditions or
circumstances for colonization?
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Instability
Biological advantage
Technological advantage
Political Advantage
• What are the best ways to resist
colonization?
• Violence
• Making deals/helping
• Foot dragging, tool breaking,
feigned incompetence
• Hidden transcript