ANT 4391 - Exam 1 Ppt Notes

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By Dennis Wiedman, Ph. D.y Dennis Wiedman, Ph. D.Department of Global and Sociocultural Studiesepartment of Global and Sociocultural Studies

Florida International Universitylorida International UniversitySpring 2011

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Four Sudisciplines

Four FieldFour Field Cultural/EthnologyCultural/Ethnology Archaeology Archaeology

Anthropologynthropology Subdisciplinesubdisciplines

Biological/PhysicalBiological/PhysicalLinguisticLinguistic

Applied Applied

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Culture Culture

A way of life of a group of humans. A way of life of a group of humans.

Learned, shared, nonLearned, shared, non--biological attributes.biological attributes.

Beliefs, practices, and products of a group.Beliefs, practices, and products of a group.

CultureCulture

Set of rules or standards that pattern behavior.Set of rules or standards that pattern behavior.

A way of perceiving the world that creates A way of perceiving the world that createsseparate realities.separate realities.separate realities.separate realities.

Principles Principles By Dennis Wiedman, Ph. D.By Dennis Wiedman, Ph. D.2/5/2011 Dennis Wiedman, FIU



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Culture Areas

Subartic

Plateau

NorthwestCoast

Arctic

Subartic

Arctic

Culture Areas

of

Southeast

Northeast

Southwest

GreatBasin

GreatPlains

California

Circum-CaribbeanMeso-

America

NorthAmerica


Counties % Indian





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Class OneThe Native Americans: Tribes of the Southeast

• Society

• Culture• Ethnocentrism

Five Tribes of the SE

CherokeeChoctaw

Chickasaw• u ura e a v sm• Cognitive Themes

Creek

Seminole

1. Wilma Mankiller – Cherokee, Tahlaquah, Okla.2. Gary Whitedeer – Chickasaw. Ada, Oklahoma3. Ken York – Choctaw, Mississippi.4. Allan Cook – Creek, Oklahoma.5. Sarah Parker – Cherokee - Narragansett.6. Narrator2/5/2011 Dennis Wiedman, FIU

Class TwoOur Land, Our Life: the Dann Sisters . . . .

Still Defiant After All These Years.74 Minutes • USA • Documentary Feature

Joanne Shenandoah – Music and songsWestern Shoshone Defense Fund www.wsdp.org2007 AIFF Winner, Best Documentary Feature

Carrie and Mary Dann. Shoshone

1982 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues:www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/

2007 “United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.” (Upper Right Column)

www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html

UN On-line Video: Awareness Raising Film

30 year battle for rights to their own land.US Supreme Court & United Nations.

Cognitive Schema

Exercise Question: In-Class ExerciseFocus on the narrative of one of the Dann sisters. Identify a basic value

that she repeatedly uses to explain or justify a critical issue.Provide quotes of specific words and phrases she uses.

( Lower Right column. 33 min)

GlobalizationEmergence of

Global awarenessInternational Institutions

Contested IdentitiesIndigeneity


Reading Points• Perceptions of NA Democracies: “ Great White Pine Tree ”• 500 Years of Injustice: “ Doctrine of Discovery ”

• History of Federal Indian Policy:“Assimilation Policy”

• Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples




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Class ThreeBury My Heart at Wounded Knee2007

• Globalization• Core and Periphery• Minority/Majority• Inequalities

• Discourse of Power• Capitalism and Individualism• Conflict Theory• Identity formation

Leading Characters:

Charles Eastman - Adam BeachSitting Bull -August SchellenbergSenator Henry Dawes -Aidann QuinnWovoka -We Studi

HBO: http://www.hbo.com/films/burymyheart/

Beat goes on-Free Leonard Peltier– Buggin Malone YouTube

• Assimilation Policy• Resistance• Dawes Severalty Act

Allotment Act• Ghost Dance• Wounded Knee

Elaine Goodale -Anna Paquin

Awards: 6 Emmyshttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0821638/awards

Out of Class Exercise:Based on this film, Mario Gonzalez’s chapter “The Black Hills,” and focused on one

article from the UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights, discuss what actions the US cantake to conform to the UN Declaration to resolve issues with the Lakota Nation over the

Black Hills. See instructions2/5/2011 Dennis Wiedman, FIU

Class FourWorld of American Indian Dance

• Manifest destiny• Minority/Majority• Social stratification• Social solidarity• Social consciousness• Paradigms – Cultural Models & Themes• Functionalism

American Indian Film Festival Winner 2003First-ever American Indian-produced

documentary for a major television network.Produced by Four Directions Entertainment.Financed by the Oneida Nation of New York.Filmed at Crow Fair at Billings, Montana

• Culture change• Social movements• Animism• Pan-Indianism – Intertribal Identity• Intertribal Pow-wow• AIM - American Indian Movement• NAC - Native American Church

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