CORE 176: North American Indians
Spring 2000 T-Th 1:00-2:30, Alumni 209
Professor Thomas D. Hall
A. Lindsay O'Connor Professor of American Institutions
417 Alumni Hall, x7545, email:thall; web: people.colgate.edu/thall
OFFICE HOURS:  Tu 6-7; Th 3-5, & by appointment
STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM
Last Updated 5-1-00

GENERAL:  The Final is TUES May 9, 12-2pm.  It is worth 100 points.  It will be structured much like the midterm. The big essay [again you will have a choice] will ask you to summarize the entire course.  Some other questions are course wide, others emphasize material since the midterm.

REMEMBER:  Your term papers, if not already turned in, are due AT THE START of the final, not after, and not running back to the printer.  Bring them with you.

The questions on the final will be similar to these and cover similar topics, but may not be identical in details.

FACTS / IDENTIFICATIONS:
Name the six tribes in the Iroquois confederacy
Name the five civilized tribes
Name 9 culture areas of North America

Give the event in Native American history most closely associated with the following dates:
1610
1620
1680
1876
1887
1890
1924
1934
1973

In NO MORE THAN TWO (2) sentences, briefly describe the role this person or groups played in Indian - White relations.  For acronyms spell them out.
Russell Means
Leonard Peltier
Wovoka
NCAI
Robert Yellowtail
Richard ADick@ Wilson
AIM
WARN
NIYC
CERT
Tecumseh
Corn Planter
Crazy Horse
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
Chief Seattle

QUESTIONS:
1.  What are the similarities and differences among Native American groups with respect to their approaches to sovereignty?

2.  Why is sovereignty such a vital issue to Native Americans?

3.  What is the significance of the Kinzua dam controversy for Iroquois people?

4.  What is the significance of the events at Oka  [Kanesatake] for the Mohawks?

5A.  Define White Shamanism and/or Plastic Medicine man.
B.  Why are many Native peoples concerned about their practices?
C.  What are some of the constitutional and political issues that this controversy raises?

6.  The originators of the relocation program developed relocation as a part of what policy? What was its relative success? Why is it that relocation to urban areas did NOT eliminate American Indian identities? What were some of the unintended consequences of the policy?

7.  What are some of the issues raised for Native nations by the extensive rate of urban migration, and intermarriage in terms of Indian cultures? Illustrate with examples from various videos and readings.

8.  What are events and issues surrounding the arrest and jailing of Leonard Peltier? What is its significance?

9.  What is the mascot issue? Why is it important to Native Peoples? What does Ward Churchill say about this issue? What does James Fenelon say about this issue?

10. What are the various roles of Powwows in maintenance and change of American Indian identities?

11.  What are some of the special health and public health issues faced by Native Americans?

12. Discuss the reasons why parents and children refused to attend boarding schools. How and what do they indicate about Indian resistance to acculturation: irrational fear of white culture or reasonable complaints? Why?

13.  According to Adams, the assimilationist goal of the boarding schools and boarding school movement were never achieved. What are some of the reasons for this failure?

14.  What are some of the ways in which Indian children both resisted and accommodated to boarding school education? What were some of the long term consequences of these efforts?

15.  Summarize Snow's account of Iroquois land loss.

16. Who was Handsome Lake, and what is his significance in Iroquois history?

17.  What are the special roles and issues of and for Native Americans in ecological concerns? How are their concerns different from the general population? How are they the same?

18.  What are some of Ward Churchill's critiques of conventional approaches to Native American issues (such as political correctness or maxist analyses)?

19.  According to Ward Churchill what is the "fourth world" and what is an "indigenist"?

20.  You are assigned to design a one month segment for a college course on Indian - White relations which must cover both historical and contemporary relations.  A) what topics would you emphasize? and B) what topics would you leave for "outside reading"? Why? (that is, justify both what you include, and why you put in the first or second category). NOTE:  this is NOT an education or communications exercise, but an intellectual exercise. That is, I am concerned with your intellectual choices and the reasons for them, not techniques of transmittal, or political consequences or intentions.

21.  What kinds of laws and practices are likely to INcrease the survival American Indian cultures? What kinds of laws and practices might DEcrease the survival probabilities of American Indian cultures? What types of actions by Native Americans are likely to INcrease their cultural survival? What types of actions by Native Americans are likely to DEcrease their cultural survival? As usual, the why, the justification for your list, is far more important than your specific choices.

22.  Besides garden variety "political correctness," why is it important that the histories of Native nations be thoroughly integrated into the general history of the United States?

Send comments or questions to thall@mail.colgate.edu