Teaching Native American History
Emphasis: American Southwest
John R. Wunder and Kurt Kinbacher, June 14 - 18, 2004
Portions of the following books will be assigned for discussion for the summer workshop on the history of the American Indians:
TEXTS
- Colin G. Calloway, First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History, 2nd ed. (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004).
- Albert Hurtado and Peter Iverson, eds., Major Problems in American Indian History, 2nd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).
TRIBAL HISTORIES
- Peter Iverson, Diné: A History of the Navajos (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002).
- Richard O. Clemmer, Roads in the Sky: The Hopi Indians in a Century of Change (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995).
- James L. Haley, Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press).
- Virginia McConnell Simmons, The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000).
On Monday morning, June 7, we will convene to discuss the following readings:
I. Overview
A. Essays by Donald L. Fixico and Richard White in Major Problems in American Indian History, pp. 2-17.
B. Introduction, First Peoples, pp. 1-11.
II. Indigenous Nations of the Southwest: Creation Stories and Relationships with Europeans
A. Anasazi
1. Stephen Plog, “Towns, Mounds, and Kachinas,” Major Problems in American Indian History, pp.44-55.
2. Colin Calloway, “First Farmers of the Southwest,” First Peoples, pp. 21-24.
B. Puebloan Peoples
1. Richard O. Clemmer, “The Hopi World,” Roads in the Sky, pp. 1-12.
2. “A Pueblo Song of the Sky Loom,” Major Problems in American Indian History, p. 19.
3. “Spain Requires the Indians to Submit to Spanish Authority, 1513” and “Augustín Rodríguez Describes the Rio Grande Pueblos, 1581-1582,” Major Problems in American Indian History, pp. 58-60.
C. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
1. Colin Calloway, “Indians Confront the Spanish,” First Peoples, pp. 69-78.
2. “Images of Invasion,” First Peoples, pp. 131-136.
3. Readings on the Southern Borderlands, Major Problems in American Indian History, pp. 94-115.
D. Navajos
1. “A Navajo Emergence Story,” First Peoples, pp. 33-43.
2. Peter Iverson, Diné, pp. xii and xiii; Introduction and Chapter 1, pp.1-34; “A Portfolio of Photographs by Monty Roessel,” immediately following p. 34.
3. Photo of Navajo man at Carlisle, First Peoples, p. 350.
E. Apache
1. James L. Haley, Apaches, Book One, pp. 3-59.
F. Utes
1. Virginia McConnell Simmons, Ute Indians, Chapters 1-3, 1-46.
We leave for Durango on the afternoon of June 7th. Basically, out itinerary will include sites, museums, and culture centers in Ute and Navajo country on the 8th, Navajo on the 9th, Hopi and Apache country on the 10th, and Phoenix and a return to Lincoln on the 11th.
We will reconvene on Monday morning, the 14th, and discuss to following topics and readings:
I. Review of trip to the Four Corners
II. Indians in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
A. Overview Text Approach: Calloway, First Peoples, Chapters 7 and 8.
B. Documents and Essays: Hurtado and Iverson, Major Problems in American Indian History
1. Documents
a. Dawes Act (1887), pp. 349-51.
b. Winters v. U.S. (1908), pp. 354-56.
c. Meriam Report (1928), pp. 384-87.
d. Wheeler-Howard Act or the Indian New Deal (1934), pp. 388-91.
e. Proclamation from Alcatraz (1969), pp. 455-56.
2. Essays
a. Peter Iverson, “Building Toward Self-Determination,” pp. 444-51.
b. James Riding In, “A Pawnee Perspective on Repatriation, 1996,” pp. 490-91.
c. Angela Cavender Wilson, “Grandmother to Granddaughter,” pp. 514-20.
C. Iverson, Diné, Chapter 8 “We Survive as a People,” pp. 274-316.
D. Clemmers, Roads in the Sky, Chapters 10 and 11, pp. 273-307.
E. Simmons, Ute Indians, Chapter 11, “From the Ashes: Today’s Ute Indians,” pp. 241-58.