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HIST 263: North American Indian History 1887 to the Present

Professor: Cary Miller Office: 348 Holton Hall

Office Hours: MW noon-2:00pm Email:

Teaching Assistant: Justin Welch Office

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North American Indian History 1887 to the present will examine the historical experience of the Native Peoples of the United States with respect to their cultures. Properly stated, this class views these events through the lens of Ethnothistory - using the cultural framework of Native Communities themselves to interpret the historical record. After fully exploring the attempts of the United States government to force detribalization and assimilation at the turn of the century, this course will chronicle the gradual resurgence of Indian identity and self-determination in the 20th century. Course objectives include 1) introduction to ethnohistory as a methodology, 2) introduction to the use of primary sources to understand history 3) development of critical thinking skills, 4) development of research paper writing skills.

UWM expects students to spend 144 hours of time on a 3 credit course only 42 of which are spent in the classroom. Be advised that this means you must spend time reading and completing assignments outside of class to perform well.

Assignments: Grading Scale:

Your grade will be determined as follows: Based on Percentage correct:

Lecture Attendance 15% A- 90-92 A 93-100

Midterm 25% B- 80-82 B 83-86 B+ 87-89

Term Paper 15% C- 70-72 C 73-76 C+ 77-79

Discussion Grade 20% D- 60-62 D 63-66 D+ 67-69

Final 25% F 59 or less

100%

Attendance:

Attendance for this course is mandatory, and will be taken by your TA at each class meeting. More than three unexcused absences will result in a lowering of your grade. More than five unexcused absences will result in automatic course failure. Students must inform the instructor in advance of expected absences, or provide a doctor’s note when they return.

Exams: Midterm Wednesday March 8; Final 10:00-12:00 on Monday May 15

Both exams for this course will contain short-answer and essay questions. If someone absolutely must miss an exam, (which must be approved prior to the test date by the instructor) the make-up exam will consist of a five-page typed essay.

Term Paper - Due Wednesday April 5 at lecture

For this assignment, you will read a biography of Mountain Wolf Woman. After reading the text, you are to write a paper indicating the historical significance of the experiences of the author and how her cultural context impacted her historical actions using only course materials. This paper should be typed, double spaced, 5-8 pages in length with one-inch margins and 12 point font. Pages should be numbered, and footnotes should be included formatted in Chicago style. Plagiarism will be discussed intensively in sections and any students who plagiarize this assignment will face severe penalties or automatic failure of this course.

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Discussion Grade

The discussion grade will be based on discussion attendance, participation in class discussion, quizzes, and the number of completed response papers turned in.

Quizzes: Alternate section meetings

Five-question quizzes will be given every other week in section. These quizzes will help you to prepare for the midterm and final exams. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped.

Response Papers - Alternate Mondays

For the weeks in which a quiz is not given, a one to two paragraph response paper addressing the readings assigned for that week is due. These are informal papers designed to help prepare you to discuss the texts in class. Please feel free to share first impressions, and unsubstantiated gut instincts about the texts and their writers as well as to pose questions to which you do not have the answer. These assignments need not conform to any particular essay format. I ask only that you use complete sentences and turn it in typed, double spaced, in 12 point font with one inch margins. There may at times be questions that you are uncomfortable raising in class, but would still like an answer to. Include these as well, and I will do my best to give you a complete response. These papers are not assigned a letter grade. Either they are complete, or they are not. Late papers will be given one half credit, unless there are extenuating circumstances. Since the value of these papers is to help you be prepared for class discussion, their value is greatly diminished when turned in late.

General Stuff:

You are expected to be aware of the deadlines listed above and observe them. Late assignments (research paper) will be penalized 5% per class day, in other words, one full grade per week. Response papers will by half credit if received late. The midterm and final will not be accepted late unless there is a major emergency such as a UFO abduction that caused you to “loose” the entire space of time you had the assignment. Please see our kind counseling staff for the revealing post abduction hypnosis sessions. Papers should be submitted in one of the following ways: a) in section, b) placed in your TA’s mail box in Holton Hall, or c) handed to your TA during office hours. Please do not slip papers under my door, as I will not be responsible for losing them in that case. If you are submitting work by any method other than handing it directly to your TA, please make a copy of the work for yourself in case for some reason your assignment does not make it into his hands.

Students with disabilities. Verification of disability, class standards, the policy on the

use of alternate materials and test accommodations can be found at the following:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/DSAD/SAC/SACltr.pdf

Religious observances. Policies regarding accommodations for absences due to

religious observance are found at the following:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SecU/acad%2Badmin_policies/S1.5.htm

Students called to active military duty. Accommodations for absences due to call-up of

reserves to active military duty should be noted.

http://www3.uwm.edu/des/web/registration/militarycallup.cfm

Incompletes. The conditions for awarding an incomplete to graduate and undergraduate

students can be found at the following:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SecU/acad%2Badmin_policies/S31.pdf

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Academic Advising in History

All L&S students have to declare and complete an academic major to graduate. If you have earned in excess of 45 credits and have not yet declared a major, you are encouraged to do so. If you either are interested in declaring a major (or minor) in History or require academic advising in History, please visit the Department of History undergraduate program web page at www.uwm.edu/Dept/History/undergradadvising.html for information on how to proceed.

Major or Certificate in American Indian Studies

All L&S students have to declare and complete an academic major to graduate. If you have earned in excess of 45 credits and have not yet declared a major, you are encouraged to do so. If you either are interested in declaring a major or certificate in American Indian Studies or require academic advising in American Indian Studies, please visit the American Indian Studies website at AIS.uwm.edu or contact Cary Miller in the Department of History at .

Required Texts: Readings not in one of the texts are available on D2L. Textbooks are available at the Campus Bookstore

Calloway, Colin G. First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History. 5th Edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015.

Iverson, Peter, and Wade Davies. “We Are Still Here”: American Indians since 1890. 2nd Edition. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, Inc., 2015.

Cobb, Daniel, ed. Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2015.

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich, ed. Mountain Wolf Woman: Sister of Crashing Thunder. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966.

Schedule:

Jan 23 Intro: Native American World Views and Ethnohistory as a methodology

Readings:

Calloway 1-12; 40-52

Flood Story

Jan 25 Kinship and Society

Readings:

Miller, Cary. Ogimaag, Chapter 1 (on D2L)

Jan. 30 Political Structures of Native Societies

Readings:

Calloway 52-64

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Feb 1 Summary of early 19th cent U.S. Indian policy

Readings:

Weeks, Philip, “The Indian Question” in Farewell, My

Nation, Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc.2nd ed., 2001, pgs. 13-50.

Calloway 254-281, 286-298

Feb 6 Defending the West

Readings:

Calloway 310-324; 336-341

Feb 8 Policy of Concentration

Readings:

Calloway pp. 324-335; 341-366

Film: The Long Walk

Feb 13 Reservations and Factional Politics

Readings:

Meyer, Melissa. “’We Can Not Get a Living as We Used To: ‘ Dispossession and the

White Earth Anishinaabeg, 1889-1920.” American Historical Review, 96(2),

1991, p. 368-394.

Feb 15 Allotment Policy

Readings: Calloway, 378-391; 414-420

Cobb p. 1-22

Iverson, pp. 1-18

Feb 20 Reservation Life in the Era of Allotment

Readings:

Cobb 19-31

Child, Brenda “An Ojibwe Fishery Story: Ojibwe Labor during World War 1” in My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2015.p. 85-123.

Feb 22 Boarding Schools

Readings: Calloway, 391-408; 422-432

Iverson, pp. 19-28

Film clips

Feb. 27 A Changing Economy

Readings:

Iverson, 69-83

Terry R. Reynolds, “Maria Montoya Martinez: Craftina Life, Transforming a Community” in Theda

Perdue ed. Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives, (Oxford University Press, 2001) p. 160-174.

Hosmer, Brian C. “Creating Indian Entrepreneurs: Menominees, Neopit Mills, and

Timber Exploitation, 1890-1915.” American Indian Culture and Research

Journal, 15(1), 1991, p. 1-28.

Mar. 1 Religion Under Siege

Readings: Iverson, 28-39

Cobb 50-53

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Mar. 6 Progressives and WWI

Readings:

Iverson, 39-69;

Calloway 408-413; 420-422

Cobb 32-49

Mar. 8 Midterm

Mar. 13 Indian Reorganization Act

Readings:

Calloway, 444-451; 471-481

Cobb 55-77

Mar. 15 Indian Reorganization Act

Readings:

Iverson, 83-111

Mar. 27 World War II

Readings:

Iverson, 112-124

Calloway: 452-455

Loew, Patty. “The Back of the Homefront: Black and American Indian Women in

Wisconsin during World War II.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 82(2), 1998-

1999, pgs 82-103.

Film: Navajo Code Talkers

Mar. 29 Stirring for Rights

Readings:

Cobb 78-99

Iverson, pp. 124-129

Apr. 3 Termination & the Cold War

Readings: Calloway, pp. 455-499

Iverson, pp. 129-143

Cobb 97-152

Apr. 5 Termination in Wisconsin Term Papers Due

Readings:

Hauptman, Laurence M. “Learning the Lessons of History: The Oneidas of Wisconsin

Reject Termination, 1943-1956.” Journal of Ethnic Studies, 14(3), 1986, pgs. 31-52.

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich. “Menominee Termination: From Reservation to Colony.”

Human Organization, 31(3), 1971, p. 257-270.

Iverson, pp. 151-159

Apr. 10 Urban Migration and Relocation

Readings:

Iverson, pp. 143-150

Calloway, pp. 460-462; 481-485

Burt, Larry W. “Roots of the Native American Urban Experience: Relocation Policy in

the 1950s.” American Indian Quarterly. 10(2), 1986, pgs. 85-99.

Apr. 12 Struggle for Resources

Readings: Calloway, pp. 462-465; 517-527

Cobb pp. 210-215

Iverson, pp. 159-190.

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Apr. 17 Birth of Urban Activism

Readings:

Calloway, pp. 465-470; 485-491

Cobb, Daniel M. “Talking the Language of the Larger World: Politics in Cold War (Native) America” in

Daniel Cobb and Loretta Fowler ed. Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900 (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research, 2007) 161-177.

Apr. 19 AIM, Wounded Knee II, and ANSCA

Readings:

Calloway, pp. 502-517; 535-538; 618-624

Cobb, 153-194

Apr. 24 Self-Determination

Readings:

Calloway: 527-530; 533-534; 539-551; 558-60, 624-632

Cobb 195-205, 216-220

Iverson 190-203

Mar. 26 Repatriation

Readings:Iverson, pp. 203-206

Calloway, pp. 530-533;

Cobb 207-209

May 1 Gaming and the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act

Readings:

Calloway, pp. 592-599

Iverson, pp. 206-213

Cattelino, Jessica, “Florida Seminole Gaming and Local Sovereign Interdependency” in

Daniel Cobb and Loretta Fowler ed. Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900 (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research, 2007), 262-279

May 3 Reservation Community Development

Readings:

Calloway, 572-592; 600-617

Iverson, 213-226

Piner, Judie and Thomas Paradis, “Beyond the Casino: Sustainable Tourism and Cultural Development on Native

American Lands” Tourism Geographies, vol. 6 (1), 2004, p. 80-98.

Boyer, Paul, “ Tribal Sovereignty Beats Roulette for Building Tribal Wealth and Nations,” Tribal College Journal,

18 (3), 2007, p. 56-57.

Cobb 226-250

May 8 Cobell Settlement and Evolving Relations

Readings:

Iverson, 227-268

Cobb 221-225

May 10 Review

Final Exam Monday May 15 10:00am to noon in our classroom

The instructor reserves the right to amend the syllabus as needed at any time.