NATIVE AMERICAN PAST AND PRESENT/2
Indian-White Relations
AN34406
Spring Semester 2009
Time and Place: Thursday 10-11.40, GÖCS 206
Instructor: Katalin Bíróné Nagy
Office Hours: Tuesday 10-11 (GÖCS 202)
Thursday 12-13 (Main Building 108), or by appointment
The seminar will survey the history of Indian-White relations from the discovery of America
to present-day Native American activism.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Students will be expected to attend classes faithfully, to keep up with the readings, and to
come to class prepared with questions and comments for discussion.
Participation in classroom discussion (15%)
Presentation (15%)
The oral presentation is based on an essay or book chapter related to the specific seminar’s
topic it is assigned to.
Writing Assignments
1) Mid-term test (25%)
2) Journal (20%)
3) End-term test (25%)
GRADING
5=91-100, 4=81-90, 3=71-80, 2=61-70, 1=below 60%.
SCHEDULE
1. Organizing the Seminar
2. Who/What is an Indian? Against Stereotypes!
Compulsory reading:
Lenore A. Stiffarm-Phil Lane, Jr., “The Demography of Native North America”
( to be found in the Course Packet, later referred to as CP)
3. The Discovery of America
Compulsory reading:
Howard Zinn, “Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress” (CP)
John Mohawk, “Looking for Columbus” (CP)
Ward Churchill, “Confronting Columbus Day” (CP)
4. Indian-White Relations in Colonial America
Compulsory reading:
Dorothy V. Jones, “British Colonial Indian Treaties” (CP)
5. US Indian Policies : 1776-1815
Compulsory reading:
Robert M. Kvasnicka, “United States Indian Treaties and Agreements” (CP)
Reginald Horsman, “United States Indian Policies, 1776-1815” (CP)
6. US Indian Policies in the 19th-Century
Compulsory reading:
Francis Paul Prucha, “United States Indian Policies, 1815-1860” (CP)
Ronald Takaki, “Toward the Stony Mountains” (CP)
William T. Hagan, “United States Indian Policies, 1860-1900” (CP)
7. MID-TERM TEST
8. US Indian Policies in the 20th-Century
Compulsory reading:
Lawrence C. Kelly, “United States Indian Policies, 1900-1980” (CP)
Ronald Takaki, “The ‛Indian Question’” (CP)
Ward Churchill-Glenn T. Morris, “Key Indian Laws and Cases” (CP)
9. Native American Activist Movements
Compulsory reading:
Vernon Bellecourt, “Birth of AIM” (CP)
Gerald Vizenor, “Confrontation and Negotiation” (CP)
Ward Churchill, “The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz” (CP)
“Twenty Points of the Trail of Broken Treaties” (CP)
Ward Churchill, “The Earth is Our Mother” (CP)
10. CONSULTATION WEEK
11. Spiritual Survival: Resistance? Assimilation? Neither? (Native Arts, Literature
and Religion)
Compulsory reading:
Lee Irwin, “Freedom, Law, and Prophecy” (CP)
12. Native Health and Education; The State of Native Women
Compulsory reading:
Jorge Noriega, “American Indian Education in the United States” (CP)
M. Annette Jaimes-Theresa Hasley, “American Indian Women” (CP)
13. Reservation versus City Indians; Anti-Indianism
Compulsory reading:
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, “Anti-Indianism and Genocide” (CP)
Vine Deloria, Jr, “The International Arena” (CP)
14. END-TERM TEST
15. Closing the seminar, grading
RECOMMENDED READING
Prucha, Francis Paul. The Indians in American Society: From the Revolutionary War to the
Present. Berkeley: U of California P, 1985.
Washburn, Wilcomb E., ed. History of Indian-White Relations. Washington: Smithsonian
Institution, 1988. (Handbook of North American Indians Vol. IV)