Native Course Listing- Academic Year 2007-2008

Archaeology of Harvard Yard ANTHRO 1130 (FAS Cat Number: 1634)
Harvard College, Fall 2007
Professor William L. Fash, Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology (Chair) , Harvard University
Wednesdays 1-4pm , Location: TBD
(Faculty Bio) (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. Cross-Registration: With permission of instructor/subject to availability.

Gaming Law (LAW-37633A Fall)
Harvard Law School, Fall 2007
Kevin Washburn, Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School & Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Monday and Tuesdays 3:15pm - 4:45pm, Location: TBD
(Faculty Bio) (Syllabus)

Gambling presents a host of legal and policy issues that challenge commercial gaming entities, players, courts, banks and other credit issuers, internet service providers, government regulators and prosecutors, and even the rule of law itself. Why do we regulate and/or prohibit gambling? What are the evils that justify regulatory measures and prohibitions? This class will address questions like these in dealing with an industry that lies at a shadowy and uncertain gray area where law meets morality, commerce and social problems. The evils attributed to gambling are subject to widespread disagreement and the justifications for prohibiting or regulating gaming have varied across time and across particular gaming industries. The class will survey a wide swath of state and federal laws that govern and regulate the fast-growing and multi-faceted legalized gaming industry, as well as the laws that criminalize illegal gambling, and use this particular law and jurisprudence to draw larger conclusions about law and its relationship with culture.

Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation-Building I (PED-501)
John F. Kennedy School of Government , Winter Term 2008
Joseph P. Kalt, Ph.D., Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy and Academic Dean for Research at the Kennedy School of Government
Day/Time: TBD, Location: Littauer Building, Room 230, Kennedy School of Government
(Faculty Bio) (Syllabus)

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. Research finds that the viable approaches to such areas of nation building must be compatible with individual societies? Cultures and American Indian societies are culturally heterogeneous. Hence, there is not one size that fits all. Case studies and simulations derived from field research and experience are utilized to engage students in the multidimensional settings that confront Native societies. Scholars and leaders from Native America and the Harvard University Native American Program provide selected presentations. Grades will be based on: issues briefs, 20 percent; simulations/participation, 20 percent; final exam, 60 percent. Note: This course is cross-listed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) at A101.

The Archaeology of New England (ANTH E-138d)
Harvard Extension School, Spring 2008
Dianna L. Doucette
Thursdays 5:30-7:30pm , Location: Geological Museum 102
(Faculty Bio) (Syllabus)

This course surveys the 11,000 years of Native American history prior to European contact in New England . Topics include subsistence and settlement patterns, burial practices, tool technology, gender roles, and human ideology, as well as issues in contemporary archaeology and Native American life in New England today. The use of the Peabody Museum 's artifact collections from major sites, and guest presentations augment the lectures and discussions.

Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation-Building II (PED-502)
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Spring 2008
Dennis Norman, Faculty Chair, Harvard University Native American Program, Chief of Psychology at Mass General Hospital, Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School
Tuesdays 4-6pm , Location: 14 Story Street Building, 4th Floor Conference Room
(Faculty Bio) (Syllabus)

This field-based research course focuses on some of the major issues Native American Indian tribes and nations face as the 21st century begins. It provides in-depth, hands-on exposure to native development issues, including: sovereignty, economic development, constitutional reform, leadership, health and social welfare, land and water rights, culture and language, religious freedom, and education. In particular, the course emphasizes problem definition, client relationships, and designing and completing a research project. The course is devoted primarily to preparation and presentation of a comprehensive research paper based on a field investigation. In addition to interdisciplinary faculty presentations on topics such as field research methods and problem definition, students will make presentations on their work in progress and findings. Note: This course is cross-listed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) as A102.

Federal Indian Law ( LAW-37010A Spring)
Harvard Law School, Spring 2008
Mondays & Tuesdays 8:30-10:00am , Location: TBA
Kevin Washburn, Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School & Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
(Faculty Bio) (Syllabus)

This course will focus primarily on the legal relationship between the United States , the states, and American Indian tribes, the general form of which began to take shape even before the United States actually came into existence. It will also explore, confront and critique the dominant themes of federal legislative executive and judicial policies toward American Indian tribes. Through discussion of specific cases, students will gain an understanding of competing visions of Indian policy, such as the one reflected in the principle that the federal government has a trust responsibility toward Indian tribes, the alternative and somewhat inconsistent view that sovereign tribes should exercise self-government, and the fervently held, but largely unrealized hope that American Indians will cast aside their tribal governmental identities and assimilate into the broader American melting pot. Students will gain an understanding of the current legal and political status of the "Third Sovereign" in a constitutional government system that was designed primarily with only two sovereigns in mind.

Criminal Law (LAW-12100A Spring/ Section 7)
Harvard Law School, Spring 2008
Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays 3: 15-4:30pm , Location: TBA
Kevin Washburn, Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School & Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
(Faculty Bio) (Syllabus)

This course considers the basic themes of substantive criminal law, including criminal responsibility, the significance of act, intent, causation and result, justification and excuse, and the rationale of punishment. General doctrinal principles of the criminal law and illustrative crimes are studied, usually including the following topics: defenses, insanity, attempts, conspiracy, and aspects of the law of homicide and rape. The course considers also constitutional principles of criminal justice. Among the topics that may be studied are search and seizure, the privilege against compulsory self-incrimination, the right to counsel, plea-bargaining, aspects of trial, and sentencing.

Canada Seminar Series (This seminar is open to the public)

Please note that all seminars, unless otherwise indicated, are in the
Bowie Vernon Conference Room
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
CGIS Knafel Building (2nd floor)
1737 Cambridge Street

The Canada Seminar examines Canadian social, economic, cultural, and political issues in their domestic and international dimensions. Presentations are made by public figures, scholars, artists, and experts in various fields. The Canada Seminar provides Harvard faculty and students, and the broader community, a look at Canadian scholarly and public life; it seeks to enhance the understanding of one of the United States ' closest allies and largest trading partners and to provide a forum for the lively exchange of ideas on a wide range of issues. Because Canada and the United States must respond to similar economic and social challenges with distinctly different frameworks and historical legacies, the study of Canadian issues offers rich opportunities for scholars engaged in comparative studies. Click here for more information about the seminars.

Monday, October 16, 4-6 p.m.
The New Conservative Government and Canada 's Political Future
John Ibbitson & André Pratte

Monday, October 30, 4-6 p.m.
Reforming the Electoral Process in Canada and the United States
Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Tuesday, November 14, 4-6 p.m.
Philosophy and Strategy in Canada 's New Conservative Government
Tom Flanagan
Location: Room S250, CGIS South Building , 1730 Cambridge Street

Monday, November 27, 4-6 p.m.
Fire & Ice: Are Canada and the U.S. Coming Together or Coming Apart
Michael Adams

Monday, December 4th, 4-6 p.m.
Hacking Back: Censorship, Surveillance and Resistance on the Internet
Ron Deibert
Location: Bowie Vernon Room (N262), WCFIA, CGIS North (2nd Floor), 1737 Cambridge Street

Monday, December 11, 4-6 p.m.
The New West: Tectonic Change in the New Canadian Political Economy
Roger Gibbins
Commentator: Professor R. Shep Melnick, Boston College

Wednesday, January 31 , 4-6 p.m.
Stability through Transition: Canada 's Political Dynamic
Senator Hugh Segal, Canada
Location: Room S250, CGIS South Building , 1730 Cambridge Street