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Native American Issues, Voices and Perspectives
By Dennis Wiedman, Ph. D.
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies Florida International University
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Four Sudisciplines

Anthropology Subdisciplines Cultural/Ethnology Archaeology Biological/Physical Linguistic

Four Field Approach

Applied
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Culture

Culture
A way of life of a group of humans. Learned, shared, non-biological attributes. non Beliefs, practices, and products of a group. Set of rules or standards that pattern behavior. A way of perceiving the world that creates separate realities.

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Principles

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Culture c Areas Arctic Subartic Subartic

Arcti

Northwest Coast

Culture Areas of Native North America

Plateau

Great Great Northeast Plains Basin California Southwest Southeast CircumCaribbean

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Counties % Indian

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The Native Americans: Tribes of the Southeast

Class One

Society Culture Ethnocentrism Cultural R l ti i C lt l Relativism Cognitive Themes

Five Tribes of the SE Cherokee Choctaw Chickasaw Creek Seminole

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1. Wilma Mankiller Cherokee, Tahlaquah, Okla. 2. Gary Whitedeer Chickasaw. Ada, Oklahoma 3. Ken York Choctaw, Mississippi. 4. Allan Cook Creek, Oklahoma. 5. Sarah Parker Cherokee - Narragansett. 6. Narrator Dennis Wiedman, FIU

Class Two Our Land, Our Life: the Dann Sisters . . . . Still Defiant After All These Years.
74 Minutes USA Documentary Feature Joanne Shenandoah Music and songs Western Shoshone Defense Fund www.wsdp.org 2007 AIFF Winner, Best Documentary Feature Carrie and Mary Dann. Shoshone y 30 year battle for rights to their own land. US Supreme Court & United Nations.
1982 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/ 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. (Upper Right Column) www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html UN On-line Video: Awareness Raising Film (L Lower Ri ht column. 33 min) Right l i )

Cognitive Schema

Globalization Emergence of Global awareness International Institutions Contested Identities Indigeneity

Exercise Question: In-Class Exercise Focus on the narrative of one of the Dann sisters. Identify a basic value that she repeatedly uses to explain or justify a critical issue. Provide quotes of specific words and phrases she uses. 2/5/2011 Dennis Wiedman, FIU

Reading Points
Perceptions of NA Democracies: Great White Pine Tree 500 Years of Injustice: Doctrine of Discovery History of Federal Indian Policy: Assimilation Policy Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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Globalization Beat goes on- Free Leonard Peltier Buggin Malone YouTube Core and Periphery HBO: http://www.hbo.com/films/burymyheart/ Minority/Majority Inequalities Leading Characters: Discourse of Power Charles Eastman - Adam Beach Capitalism and Individualism Sitting Bull -August Schellenberg Conflict Theory Senator Henry Dawes - Aidann Quinn Identity formation Wovoka - We Studi Assimilation Policy Elaine Goodale -Anna Paquin Resistance Dawes Severalty Act Awards: 6 Emmys Allotment Act http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0821638/awards Ghost Dance Wounded Knee
Out of Class Exercise: Based on this film, Mario Gonzalezs chapter The Black Hills, and focused on one article from the UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights, discuss what actions the US can take to conform to the UN Declaration to resolve issues with the Lakota Nation over the 2/5/2011 Dennis Wiedman, FIU Black Hills. See instructions

Class Three Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

2007

World of American Indian Dance

First-ever American Indian-produced Manifest destiny documentary for a major television network. Minority/Majority Produced by Four Directions Entertainment. Social stratification Financed by the Oneida Nation of New York. Filmed at Crow Fair at Billings, Montana Social solidarity Social consciousness Paradigms Cultural Models & Themes Functionalism Culture change C Social movements Animism Pan-Indianism Intertribal Identity Intertribal Pow-wow AIM - American Indian Movement NAC - Native American Church American Indian Film Festival Winner 2003

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Exercise Question: Discuss how the pow-wow creates and maintains Intertribal identities.
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