Week 6: Deerskins and Slaves in the Native Southeast

This week we will continue exploring the Algonquin and Iroquoian worlds.  Our discussion will focus on the present-day southeastern U.S. and captivity in Indian country.

Points of Entry:

Yamasee War website:


http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=29505

Creek Confederacy History:

http://www.fourdir.com/creek.htm

Indian Slave Trade:


http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_indians_slavery.htm

Thoughts/Questions for blog discussion:

List and analyze 2 quotes from the reading.  What are some of the arguments?

How are they related to the larger themes of the week discussed in class?

Week 5: Iroquoia and the Algonquin Worlds

This week explores how Native America in the present-day North American northeast incorporated Euro-Americans into their Iroquoian and Algonquin worlds.

Points of Entry:

Deerfield Raid in New England:

http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/home.do

Captivity Narrative:

http://www.archive.org/details/captivity_restoration_rowlandson_0912_librivox#

Iroquoia and the fur trade:

http://www.iroquoisdemocracy.pdx.edu/html/furtrader.htm

http://www.tolatsga.org/iro.html

List and analyze 2 quotes from the readings.  What are the authors arguing in these passages?  How is this related to the larger themes of the week discussed in class?

Week 4: Looking Out From Indian Country: Native Frontiers (1600-1700)

This week explores concepts like "frontier," "borderlands," and "Indian Country." During the 17th-18th centuries, many Native societies of the Americas experienced various forms of conquest and colonialism. Conquests, though, were sometimes ambivalent and not so clear cut.

  Ultimately, Native history was early colonial history.




Points of entry:

"Devil's Miner" website:

http://www.thedevilsminer.com/index_new.html


"Aguirre:  The Wrath of God" link:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3z828_aguirre-the-wrath-of-god-beginning_shortfilms

The account of Cabeza de Vaca, an early Spanish explorer kidnapped and sold into slavery for 7 years provides a fascinating window into the more "ambiguous" conquests that occurred during this period. See the links below for this account:


http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/cabeza.htm


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgtRIyqLsMk&feature=related

Pueblo Revolt -

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/pueblo.htm

The Middle Ground/Native Ground/Facing East Reviews:

http://www.lib.niu.edu/1993/ii930734.html

http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14229.html

http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-03/reviews/oberg.shtml

Comanches:

http://www.comanchenation.com/

http://www.nps.gov/archive/foda/Fort_Davis_WEB_PAGE/About_the_Fort/Comanches.htm

Questions for blog discussion:

List and analyze 2 quotes from the reading.  What are the authors arguing in these passages?  How is this related to the larger themes of the week discussed in class?

Week 3: The Columbian Exchange: Or the Native American Discovery of Europe

During this week we will explore both the historical significance of 1492 and the ways it has been commemorated over the past 500 years.

Points of Entry:

Articles on Columbus Day monuments:

New bid to erect Columbus statue in Puerto Rico « Repeating Islands

http://www.transformcolumbusday.org/

Library of Congress Exhibit:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/

National Humanities Center "Columbian Exchange" website:

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/ecolinksce.htm

Columbus Day clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw9_dlk5-CY

Brown University controversy:

Anti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByQRcENzOMU

pro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kySI8xyVqtA

Thoughts/Questions for blog discussion:

List and analyze 2 quotes from the reading.  What are some of the arguments?  How are they related to the larger themes of the week discussed in class?