Colonialism and Complexities of Indigenous Identities

Colonialism and Complexities of Indigenous Identities

 

Class Participation  40% of grade
Each week you will be assigned an online activity. You may be asked to respond to questions, to create a concept map, to create questions, participate in an online forum or debate, etc. Each week will be a little different, but a few things will remain the same. Each assignment will require an original post by Tuesday of that week and a response by Friday. These assigned activities are counted toward your class attendance.

Class Presentation 20% of grade

Present research on settler colonial tropes including a summary and 2-3 open-ended and thoughtful questions for class discussion. The presenter is responsible for turning in a 10-15 minute recorded video with a copy of the questions to the professor.

Final Paper/Project   40% of grade

Student may choose 1 of 3 options:

Option 1.

A Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed topic (topics) to be negotiated with and approved by the professors. Drawing from course materials, lectures, and discussion. The student should approach this as a traditional formal research paper. 

Option 2.

An Integrative Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed themes/topic(s) to be negotiated with and approved by the professor. Drawing from course materials, readings, lectures, and discussion, and a novel, documentary, or other pieces of art created by a Native American/ Indigenous author/poet/artist/film maker/musician and lyrist, the student is to describe the artistic work in relation to the artist’s hermeneutic, provide a summary of the novel/text or description of the visual or auditory art assessing the work and showing how it relates to your topical focus.

Option 3:

A Project of your Own Initiative, based on with the material from the course and demonstrating active engagement and understanding of the subject matter presented in lectures, discussions, presentations, and text. This project must be negotiated with and approved by the professor. 

 

Class Participation  40% of grade
Each week you will be assigned an online activity. You may be asked to respond to questions, to create a concept map, to create questions, participate in an online forum or debate, etc. Each week will be a little different, but a few things will remain the same. Each assignment will require an original post by Tuesday of that week and a response by Friday. These assigned activities are counted toward your class attendance.

Class Presentation 20% of grade

Present research on settler colonial tropes including a summary and 2-3 open-ended and thoughtful questions for class discussion. The presenter is responsible for turning in a 10-15 minute recorded video with a copy of the questions to the professor.

Final Paper/Project   40% of grade

Student may choose 1 of 3 options:

Option 1.

A Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed topic (topics) to be negotiated with and approved by the professors. Drawing from course materials, lectures, and discussion. The student should approach this as a traditional formal research paper. 

Option 2.

An Integrative Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed themes/topic(s) to be negotiated with and approved by the professor. Drawing from course materials, readings, lectures, and discussion, and a novel, documentary, or other pieces of art created by a Native American/ Indigenous author/poet/artist/film maker/musician and lyrist, the student is to describe the artistic work in relation to the artist’s hermeneutic, provide a summary of the novel/text or description of the visual or auditory art assessing the work and showing how it relates to your topical focus.

Option 3:

A Project of your Own Initiative, based on with the material from the course and demonstrating active engagement and understanding of the subject matter presented in lectures, discussions, presentations, and text. This project must be negotiated with and approved by the professor. 

Dr. Lisa Ann Dellinger

 

Class Participation  40% of grade
Each week you will be assigned an online activity. You may be asked to respond to questions, to create a concept map, to create questions, participate in an online forum or debate, etc. Each week will be a little different, but a few things will remain the same. Each assignment will require an original post by Tuesday of that week and a response by Friday. These assigned activities are counted toward your class attendance.

Class Presentation 20% of grade

Present research on settler colonial tropes including a summary and 2-3 open-ended and thoughtful questions for class discussion. The presenter is responsible for turning in a 10-15 minute recorded video with a copy of the questions to the professor.

Final Paper/Project   40% of grade

Student may choose 1 of 3 options:

Option 1.

A Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed topic (topics) to be negotiated with and approved by the professors. Drawing from course materials, lectures, and discussion. The student should approach this as a traditional formal research paper. 

Option 2.

An Integrative Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed themes/topic(s) to be negotiated with and approved by the professor. Drawing from course materials, readings, lectures, and discussion, and a novel, documentary, or other pieces of art created by a Native American/ Indigenous author/poet/artist/film maker/musician and lyrist, the student is to describe the artistic work in relation to the artist’s hermeneutic, provide a summary of the novel/text or description of the visual or auditory art assessing the work and showing how it relates to your topical focus.

Option 3:

A Project of your Own Initiative, based on with the material from the course and demonstrating active engagement and understanding of the subject matter presented in lectures, discussions, presentations, and text. This project must be negotiated with and approved by the professor. 

This course is a survey of US settler imperialism and its attempts to interpret and narrowly define Native American identity to normalize the processes of colonization. The oeuvre of Indigenous scholars and artist will be deployed as a counternarrative and provide insights into the multiplicity found within Native American self-expressions and relational identities.

 

Class Participation  40% of grade
Each week you will be assigned an online activity. You may be asked to respond to questions, to create a concept map, to create questions, participate in an online forum or debate, etc. Each week will be a little different, but a few things will remain the same. Each assignment will require an original post by Tuesday of that week and a response by Friday. These assigned activities are counted toward your class attendance.

Class Presentation 20% of grade

Present research on settler colonial tropes including a summary and 2-3 open-ended and thoughtful questions for class discussion. The presenter is responsible for turning in a 10-15 minute recorded video with a copy of the questions to the professor.

Final Paper/Project   40% of grade

Student may choose 1 of 3 options:

Option 1.

A Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed topic (topics) to be negotiated with and approved by the professors. Drawing from course materials, lectures, and discussion. The student should approach this as a traditional formal research paper. 

Option 2.

An Integrative Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed themes/topic(s) to be negotiated with and approved by the professor. Drawing from course materials, readings, lectures, and discussion, and a novel, documentary, or other pieces of art created by a Native American/ Indigenous author/poet/artist/film maker/musician and lyrist, the student is to describe the artistic work in relation to the artist’s hermeneutic, provide a summary of the novel/text or description of the visual or auditory art assessing the work and showing how it relates to your topical focus.

Option 3:

A Project of your Own Initiative, based on with the material from the course and demonstrating active engagement and understanding of the subject matter presented in lectures, discussions, presentations, and text. This project must be negotiated with and approved by the professor. 

Identify and explicate the vocabulary, themes, or loci of the academic discipline of US settler colonialism.

Analyze and discuss how these settler colonial concepts interact with one another in constructing an ideology, which is committed to the cultural genocide of the Original Peoples of Turtle Island/North America.

Identify and discuss how historical, social, and political contexts impact the formation of a Native American Indian identity in the US social imagination.

Examine the above categories of contextual formation considering  Native American practices of self-determination and expression intersectionality/the complexity of being human by utilizing  works produced by Indigenous scholars, artists, and leaders.

 

Class Participation  40% of grade
Each week you will be assigned an online activity. You may be asked to respond to questions, to create a concept map, to create questions, participate in an online forum or debate, etc. Each week will be a little different, but a few things will remain the same. Each assignment will require an original post by Tuesday of that week and a response by Friday. These assigned activities are counted toward your class attendance.

Class Presentation 20% of grade

Present research on settler colonial tropes including a summary and 2-3 open-ended and thoughtful questions for class discussion. The presenter is responsible for turning in a 10-15 minute recorded video with a copy of the questions to the professor.

Final Paper/Project   40% of grade

Student may choose 1 of 3 options:

Option 1.

A Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed topic (topics) to be negotiated with and approved by the professors. Drawing from course materials, lectures, and discussion. The student should approach this as a traditional formal research paper. 

Option 2.

An Integrative Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed themes/topic(s) to be negotiated with and approved by the professor. Drawing from course materials, readings, lectures, and discussion, and a novel, documentary, or other pieces of art created by a Native American/ Indigenous author/poet/artist/film maker/musician and lyrist, the student is to describe the artistic work in relation to the artist’s hermeneutic, provide a summary of the novel/text or description of the visual or auditory art assessing the work and showing how it relates to your topical focus.

Option 3:

A Project of your Own Initiative, based on with the material from the course and demonstrating active engagement and understanding of the subject matter presented in lectures, discussions, presentations, and text. This project must be negotiated with and approved by the professor. 

Class Participation  40% of grade
Each week you will be assigned an online activity. You may be asked to respond to questions, to create a concept map, to create questions, participate in an online forum or debate, etc. Each week will be a little different, but a few things will remain the same. Each assignment will require an original post by Tuesday of that week and a response by Friday. These assigned activities are counted toward your class attendance.

Class Presentation 20% of grade

Present research on settler colonial tropes including a summary and 2-3 open-ended and thoughtful questions for class discussion. The presenter is responsible for turning in a 10-15 minute recorded video with a copy of the questions to the professor.

Final Paper/Project   40% of grade

Student may choose 1 of 3 options:

Option 1.

A Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed topic (topics) to be negotiated with and approved by the professors. Drawing from course materials, lectures, and discussion. The student should approach this as a traditional formal research paper.

Option 2.

An Integrative Research Paper, 10-12 pages, based on the proposed themes/topic(s) to be negotiated with and approved by the professor. Drawing from course materials, readings, lectures, and discussion, and a novel, documentary, or other pieces of art created by a Native American/ Indigenous author/poet/artist/film maker/musician and lyrist, the student is to describe the artistic work in relation to the artist’s hermeneutic, provide a summary of the novel/text or description of the visual or auditory art assessing the work and showing how it relates to your topical focus.

Option 3:

A Project of your Own Initiative, based on with the material from the course and demonstrating active engagement and understanding of the subject matter presented in lectures, discussions, presentations, and text. This project must be negotiated with and approved by the professor.

Required Texts:

Deloria, Philip Joseph. 1998. Playing Indian . New Haven: Yale University Press.  Print $19.99

Hixson, Walter L. 2013. American Settler Colonialism: a History .  New York : Palgrave Macmillan.  Print $37.99

Huhndorf, Shari M. 2001. Going native: Indians in the American cultural imagination. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press.  Print $24.95

Secondary Texts and Resources:

See Modules for list of texts. The actual readings will be posted by the instructor in the weekly modules as they are appropriate.

DateDayDetails
Jun 18, 2022SatWelcome and Introductionsdue by 12:00AM
Jun 18, 2022SatReflections and Conversation: Settler colonialism and Little Housedue by 05:59AM
Jun 25, 2022SatView Reflect & Discuss 2.0due by 05:59AM
Jul 04, 2022MonRead, Reflect, & Responddue by 05:59AM
Jul 12, 2022TueView, Reflect, and Discussdue by 05:59AM
Jul 12, 2022TueView & Reflectdue by 05:59AM