History 3010   

Week 2 - Places in Indian Country

Readings:

• Calloway: Navajo Emergence story, maps and picture essay in Chapter 1
• Additional origin stories are available:
  • Indigenous People (not just American Indian)
  • Native American  Lore (not just origin stories)
  • Native American Culture (includes links to other sources)
  • AADIZOOKAANAG : Traditional Stories, Legends and Myths
    A rich but design-challenged site containing a variety of Native American myths, legends, and stories as well as materials pertaining to misuse and abuse of Native American

Discussion: Read at least 2 origin stories -- consider main characters, relationships between humans and other creatures, the nature of this world.

You might be interested in: Jacobs, James Q. Paleoamerican Origins: A Review of Hypotheses and Evidence Relating to the Origins of the First Americans. Anthropology and Archaeology Pages, 2002.

Oral presentation: 

• Research one of the sites listed below (may use Wikipedia as 1 source -- you don't need more than 2 or 3)
• prepare  a handout which locates the site on a map and cites your sources of information
• report orally  for 2 minutes on the history and culture of the location

•  The Serpent Mound
• Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site and http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/cahokia/hodges-text
• Etowah Moundbuilders, Georgia
• Pueblo Bonito: http://www.colorado.edu/Conferences/chaco/tour/bonito.htm
• Mesa Verde: http://www.nps.gov/meve/
• Escalante Pueblo, Olorado
• Hovenweep: http://www.nps.gov/hove/index.htm
• Aztalan: http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/parks/specific/aztalan/
• Pueblo Grande de Nevada (Lost City Museum)
• Hochelaga: http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/z00cartier2.htm
• Carolina Algondians: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmack/algonqin/algonqin.htm
• Powhatan materials on Virtual Jamestown site: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Powhat1.html
• Ozette Village (Makah)
• Fremont Indian State Park, Utah
• Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park: Kawaiisu Native American Village ,CA
• or read the article about the Cascajel Block, the earliest pre-1492 writing (found near the Olmec site in Mexico)
• or read about the controversy over the Kennewick Man