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 Midterm
Last Updated 3-6-00 [draft]
Depending on class vote the midterm will be either on Thursday, March 9 before Springbreak, or Tuesday, March 21 right after Springbreak.
The midterm will cover:
Adams Chs. 1 thru 6
Champagne Chs. 1 thru 5, 14 thru 16
Churchill Chs. 1 thru 6, 9, 11
Snow Chs. 1 thru 7
Bright Chs. 1 thru 5
Reserve readings by: Cornell, Mann & Fields, Salisbury, Smith
Everything covered on the quiz
All videos
All lectures
TERMS TO KNOW:
Some Sample Questions:
1. What, in your view, but based on Cornell and lectures, are:
Be sure to explain why you made your specific choices.
2. How are American Indians different from other minority groups in the United States? What are the consequences of these differences for Indian persistence and survival?
3. A budget axe-wielding congressman claims that now that the Indian wars have been over for more than a century there is no need to continue "reverse discrimination" that favors Indians with such things as the Indian Health Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, etc. These programs can be eliminated. Given what you have learned in the this course, how would you respond? [This calls for a reasoned response and discussion of relations and history, not a war club on the pate!].
4. What are the relationships among boarding schools, IRA, termination, relocation, and the resurgence of Native Amerian activism?
5. What are the debates about the number of Native Americans north of Mexico before European contact. Why are those debates important?
6. How did the formation of Indian boarding schools grow out of existing movements in American society in the 19th century.
7. Describe how Indian boarding schools differed from other American schools.
8. What are the various types of Indian boarding schools? What are the relations among them? How effective were they?
9. Describe some of the rituals that developed in Indian boarding schools?
10. Why and how is gender a special issue in discussions of American Indians?
11. Summarize at least 3 different land claims issues.
12. What is the Navajo - Hopi land dispute about?
13. What are some of the elements of American Indian identity? What is its "life-cycle"?
14. What is the significance of the debate about when the League of the Iroquois was founded?
15. Summarize Mann and Fields's evidence for the early date for founding of the League of the Iroquois.
16. Several writers raise questions about the use of Native Americans as symbols of ecology [e.g., the crying Indian commercial of the 1970s]. What is the harm they see in this imagery?
17. Some writers argue that Native Americans should be consulted in assessing ecological impacts of social and technical policies. What is their argument? Why is such consultation important to survival of Native Peoples?
18. Why are some ecologists and some Native Americans suspicious of "New Age" movements and people? What are the dangers of such groups and individuals, who see themselves as friendly toward Native Americans?
19. While Native Americans are often seen as "pre-modern" or "pre-industrial," they have been closely involved in the production of the quintessentially modern resource, uranium. What has their involvement been? Has it helped or harmed them? How and Why?
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