Fall (2005)
Winter (2006)
Spring (2006)
FOLK 126 (3445) Continuing Oral Traditions in Native American Literature
Lisa T. Brooks, Assistant Professor of History and Literature and of Folklore and Mythology , Harvard University.
Tuesdays, 2-4 pm, Barker Center, Warren House, Room 102.
Fall 2005 and Year-Long (1st half).
(Syllabus)
Rather than textual artifacts of a cultural past, Native American oral literatures are living traditions in particular landscapes, activities in which communities are engaged. Features trips to local Native places and close readings of recorded communal tellings and literary texts. Explores the role of oral traditions in Native American literature, emphasizing the intertextual and interdependent relationship between the oral and the written.
HIST 1657 (1723) Native America: The East
Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History , Harvard University.
MWF, 1-2 pm, Location- TBA.
Fall 2005 and Year-Long (1st half).
(Syllabus)
By using culture to analyze Native American history, students will gain a deeper understanding of the oral and spiritual histories of Native people east of the Mississippi prior to the arrival of Columbus , why and how Native nations adapted to the European presence, and how colonial and United States Indian policy developed through the late twentieth century.
ANTH E-138D The Archaeology of New England
Dianna L. Doucette, Associate of the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm, Geological Museum, Room 102.
Fall 2005.
(Syllabus)
This course surveys the 11,000 years of Native American history in New England prior to European contact. Topics include subsistence and settlement patterns, burial practices, tool technology, and human ideology. The Peabody Museum 's artifact collections are used to augment the lectures and discussions.
ANTH 1130: Archeology of Harvard Yard
William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology (Chair), Harvard University.
Mondays 1-4 pm, Vanserg Hall, Room 107.
Fall 2005 and Year-Long (1st half).
(Syllabus)
Archaeological data recovered from Harvard Yard provide a richer and more nuanced view of the 17th through 19th century lives of students and faculty in Harvard Yard, an area that includes the Old College and Harvard Indian College . Students will excavate in Harvard Yard and process and analyze artifacts and report on the results. Additional topics to be covered include regional historical archaeology, research design, surveying, archival research, stratigraphy, and artifact analysis.
Winter (2006)
GSE: A101 Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation-Building I
Joe Kalt, Ph.D., Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy and Academic Dean for Research at the Kennedy School of Government, HUNAP Faculty Chair
Tues.- Fri., 10 am-12:30 pm & 1:30-4 pm, KSG, Littauer Building, Room 130.
January 17-20, 2005. (Syllabus) (Faculty Bio)
This course examines issues Native American tribes and nations face as they enter the 21st century, including political sovereignty, economic development, constitutional reform, cultural and language maintenance and promotion, land and water rights, religious freedom, health and social welfare, and education. Because the challenges are broad and comprehensive, the course emphasizes the breadth of issues that leaders must confront--from health, education, and social services to politics, economics, and cultural change.
Spring (2006)
SOC 196 Comparative Native American Societies
Duane Champagne, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies at UCLA, Acting Director of the Tribal Learing Community and Educational Exchange (TLCEE), HUNAP 2006 Visiting Senior Scholar and Visiting Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Mondays 3-5 pm, Location-TBA.
Spring 2006. (Syllabus) (Faculty Bio)
This course will examine socio-cultural change found in Native American Societies as responses to western economic and political competition, and cultural exchange.
ENG 188 (0079) Native American Literature: Narrations of Nationhood
Lisa T. Brooks, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History and Literature and of Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 am-12 pm, Location- TBA. Spring 2006.
(Syllabus)
Survey of Native American literature that frames indigenous nationhood as a continuing communal process. Reaching across temporal boundaries from the literature of the oral tradition to the texts of the encounter and protest writing, to contemporary poetry, fiction, and political prose, this course provides substantial grounding in the multifaceted literatures and cultures of Native America. Organized geographically, with a focus on the emergence of literary traditions in particular regions and places.
HIST 1658 (5296) Native America: The West
Malinda Maynor Lowery, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10-11 am, Location- TBA. Spring 2006.
(Syllabus)- Currently Unavailable
By using culture to analyze Native American history, students will gain a deeper understanding of the oral and spiritual histories of Native people west of the Mississippi prior to the arrival of Columbus , why and how Native nations adapted to the European presence, and how colonial and US Indian policy developed through the late twentieth century.
HIST 1655 (7019) Native American Identities: Conference Course
Malinda Maynor Lowery, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University.
Wednesdays, 2-4 pm, Location- TBA. Spring 2006.
(Syllabus)- Currently Unavailable
Using readings in history, literature, anthropology, sociology, law and policy, and the arts, this conference course will explore how Native Americans define themselves to one another and to non-Indians in local, personal, tribal, and national contexts.
LAW: Federal Indian Law: Seminar (37010-31)
Carole Goldberg, UCLA, Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University
Mondays & Tuesdays, 1:15-2:24 p.m., Location- TBA. Spring 2006.
(Syllabus)
This course provides an overview of federal Indian law through a study of cases and historical and contemporary materials. It covers the basic conflicts among sovereign governments which dominate this area of law, including conflicts over jurisdiction, land rights, hunting and fishing rights, water rights, domestic relations law, and environmental protection. As time allows, other areas such as religious freedom and cultural resource protection will also be covered. Students should gain a critical understanding of the basic tenets of Indian law, the bases of tribal sovereignty, the structure of the federal-tribal relationship and its history, and a sense of the future directions the courts, Indian nations, and Congress may take in addressing current legal issues in Indian country.
LAW: Tribal Legal Systems: Seminar (99110-31)
Carole Goldberg, UCLA, Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University
Mondays, 4:45-6:45 p.m., Location- TBA. Spring 2006.
(Syllabus)
This seminar examines the traditional and contemporary legal systems of Native American tribal nations. There will be detailed consideration of several different tribal systems, including Navajo, Cherokee, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Hopi, and Salish. Emphasis will be on the diversity of tribal legal regimes, comparisons with the Anglo-American legal system, changes in tribal systems during the period of contact with non-Indians, and the relationship between tribes' legal systems and other aspects of their cultures, such as religion and social structure. Reading materials will include creation stories and other tribal narratives with implications for law, anthropological studies and contemporary constitutions, legal codes, and court decisions of Indian nations. Students will undertake an independent research paper, focusing on a contemporary or historic topic.
ANTH 189 (9619) Ethnographic Film History and Theory
Lucien Taylor,
Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Film Study Center, Harvard University.
Tuesdays, 1-5 p.m. (screenings 3-5 p.m.), Sever Hall, Room 416. Spring 2006.
(Syllabus)
Professor Lucien Taylor is offering two courses for graduate and undergraduate students in ethnography and film- you have the opportunity to study and make indigenous ethnography through film. This course traces the variety of ways in which predominantly non-fiction film- and video-makers from the 1920s to the present have depicted reality, human existence, and culture. As such, it concentrates to a significant degree on filmmakers who have focused on the reciprocal provocations between individual human subjects and the wider cultural circumstances, circuits, and contexts in which their lives are enmeshed. In featuring many imagemakers who are categorized, whether by themselves or others, as ethnographic, indigenous, or diasporic, in orientation or origin, the seminar seeks to bring certain critical insights from film studies, cultural studies, and anthropology into fertile juxtaposition.
ANTH 157 (8779) Digital Ethnography I: Studio Course
Lucien Taylor, Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Film Study Center, Harvard University.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9-12 p.m., Sever Hall, Room 416. Spring 2006.
(Syllabus)- Currently Unavailable
Professor Lucien Taylor is offering two courses for graduate and undergraduate students in ethnography and film- you have the opportunity to study and make indigenous ethnography through film. Introduction to the history and theory of ethnographic filmmaking, from 1895 to the present day. Different modes of ethnographic and nonfiction filmmaking, including expository, impressionistic, observational, interactive, reflexive, and performative, are contrasted and evaluated for their strengths and weaknesses.
SOC 190 (0021) Life and Death in the US: Medicine and Disease in Social Context
Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Medical Sociology in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.
Mondays and Wednesdays, 3-4 p.m., William James Hall, Room 105. Spring 2006.
(Syllabus)
This course will explore how biological and social factors jointly conspire to determine the health of individuals and populations and examine how medical care, social networks, and socioeconomic inequality influence illness, recovery, and death. This course will include an in depth look at Native American health issues.
HIST 1617 The French in North America
Professor Laurier Turgeon, Visiting William Lyon MacKenzie King Professor of Canadian Studies, FAS Department of History, Harvard University.
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 11-12 p.m. Sever Hall, Room 203. Spring 2006.
(Syllabus)
This course includes discussion of indigenous First Nations of Canada issues and will feature indigenous guest lecturers. This course examines the role of the French presence in North America from the first French-Amerindian encounters in the early Sixteenth century to today’s Quebec Independence Movement. The course will focus on French contacts, adaptations, alliances, appropriations, conflicts, dispossessions, power struggles and strategies of survival in North America. Special attention will be given to the study of the expressions of French heritage in cultural landscapes, material objects, museums, migration movements, memory and politics. The course will deal primarily with the French in Canada (including Acadia), but will also examine the significance of the French presence in the Mid-West, Louisiana, New England and Florida.
