Clow, Richmond C.

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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Syllabi Course Syllabi Fall 9-1-2000 NAS 303.01: Ecological Perspectives of Native Americans Richmond C. Clow University of Montana - Missoula, clowrl@mso.umt.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Clow, Richmond C., "NAS 303.01: Ecological Perspectives of Native Americans" (2000). Syllabi. 5139. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi/5139 This Syllabus is brought to you for free and open access by the Course Syllabi at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Syllabi by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact scholarworks@mso.umt.edu. Ecological Perspectives of Native Americans NAS 303 (Section 1)Wilderness and Civilization Fall 2000 R. ClowOffice Hours, 11-12 T-THGallagher 205This is a one-semester course on cultural ecology designed to acquaint the student with tribal environmental ethics. To do so, we will have to understand Native American tribal views of the physical environment in which they lived and currently live and how their views are tied to acts of production. The course will focus on tribal philosophical views of the land; tribal use of the land, including tribal use of fire, tribal concepts of hunting, tribal horticulture, and tribal rights to continue using resources from the physical environment. The format of the class will be a combination of lecture and discussion. Therefore it is important that students have their readings completed.Lecture Topics September 19 - October 5All individuals have relationships with their physical landscape. As a result, we will discuss, environmental concepts that are applicable to all cultures. This format will enable us to emphasize that different cultures have different, not wrong relationships with the landscape. Understanding the functional dependency between different environmental variables will help us to understand starvation, as well as ideas of territoriality andtenure, which will be the focus of the end of the week. Animportant goal of these. lectures will be establishing a cross- cultural framework to understand the relationship between people, culture, and landscape.Readings: Hugh Brody, Maps and Dreams: Indians and the BritishColumbia Frontier.Examination: Essay exam will be given.October 10 - October 19We will continue to apply environmental conceptst o tribalrelationships with their landscapes. Though hunting will be acommon discussion topic, the ideas we discuss will be applicable to other tribal cultures including those that farm or fish for a livelihood. During the course of these lectures, we will refer to tribal literature as our authority. Students will also be required to bring pieces of tribal literature to class to share with others. A good source to find stories is An Ethnographic Bibliography of North America. Another is Handbook of North American Indians. Both series can be found in the library.Page 2Readings: Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places.Ellen B. Basso, "The Enemy of Every Tribe: "Bushman" Images in Northern Athapaskan Narratives," On Reserve. Examination: Essay exam will be given.October 24 - November 9Disease and cultural disease theory are part of everyone's relationship to the landscape. Understanding how and why disease afflicts tribal communities .must be understood by understanding tribal culture. We will be examining another concepts, the game masters and keepers and their tie to disease and successful hunting.Readings: Calvin Martin, Keeper of the Game.James Mooney, "The Origin of Disease and Medicine."This reading is on reserve at Reserve Reading Room, Mansfield Library.November 14 - November 21All cultures alter their landscapes. Survival and Stability are the reasons that this occurs. To understand how and why tribal cultures altered their landscapes requires our attention. To do so, we must understand the use of fire and efficiency.Readings: Nancy M. Williams and Eugene S. Hunn, Resource Manager:__________ North American and Australian Hunter-Gathers■ OnReserve.Garret Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons." On Reserve.Fikert Berkes, "Common-Property Resource Management and Cree Indian Fisheries in Subarctic Canada." On Reserve.November 2 8 - December 14Often the way that cultures alter their landscape creates conflict between tribal cultures and non-tribal cultures. When this occurs, a condition known as cultural environmental conflict occurs. It is important to remember then, that environmental conflict is not just a resource conflict stimulated by scarcity, but philosophical conflicts.Readings: George Wenzel, Animal Rights, Human Rights.Kim Barttlett, "A New Ethic or an End to a Way of Life,"On Reserve.Attendance:Attendance is not required for this class. Students will bePage 3responsible for all materials presented in class including visual materials.Grading:The student's grade will be based upon the examinations (take home essays) and the research paper. The essays will be worth two thirds of the student's grade. Examinations will be scheduled as sections of the class are completed.The last one third of the student's grade will be earned by writing a scholarly paper and to -meet this requirement, citations must be included. One part of this paper will be a story, a story from tribal literature that will be the authority for understanding a specific tribe's environmental ethic in your paper. Include the story as an appendix to your research paper. Since acts of production do not occur in a vacuum, after you have found a story, then place the story in a landscape that the tribal culture that produced the story used. You may need to include some detail about the tribal culture that used that landscape as well as detail about the landscape itself. The third part of your paper will require you to explain and toanalyze the environmental ethic found in the story, this will require an explanation of the specific tribal environmental beliefs. The fourth part of you paper will be an analysis of the environmental ethic, which you must identify, and how it relates to an act of production in the specific tribal culture. Ideas from class will provide with clues for examining materials and improving your discussion of tribal environmental ethics in your paper.The goal will be to understand tribal environmental ethics and tribal behavior associated with their understanding of their ethics beliefs in acts of production. Proper citations must be used. Topic sentences are necessary. The theme and thesis must be clearly stated. Tags, transitions from one paragraph to the next, must be used. This paper will allow the student to understand, in a specific setting, how tribal use their physical environment and their beliefs about their physical environments.

NAS 303.01: Ecological Perspectives of Native Americans

University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Syllabi Course Syllabi Fall 9-1-2000 NAS 303.02: Ecological Perspectives of Native Americans Richmond C. Clow University of Montana - Missoula, clowrl@mso.umt.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Clow, Richmond C., "NAS 303.02: Ecological Perspectives of Native Americans" (2000). Syllabi. 5138. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi/5138 This Syllabus is brought to you for free and open access by the Course Syllabi at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Syllabi by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact scholarworks@mso.umt.edu. Ecological Perspectives of Native AmericansNAS 303 (Section 2) Fall 2000 R. ClowOffice Hours, 11-12 T-THJournalism 304This is a one-semester course on cultural ecology designed to acquaint the student with tribal environmental ethics. To do so, we will have to understand Native American tribal views of the physical environment in which they lived and currently live and how their views are tied to acts of production. The course will focus on tribal philosophical views of the land; tribal use of the land, including tribal use of fire, tribal concepts of hunting, tribal horticulture, and tribal rights to continue using resources from the physical environment.Lecture Topics:September 5 Introduction7 Culture and the Physical Environment,Functional Interdependency 12 The Lakota, Bison Hunting, and Starving Times14 Territoriality and Tenure19 Territoriality and Tenure (film)21 Territoriality and Tenure26 Qualities of Tribal Uses and Views of theLandscape28 Qualities of Tribal Uses and Views of theLandscapeOctober 3 Qualities of Tribal Uses and Views of theLandscape5 Sedna, Keeper of the Game, A Concept5 Sedna, Keeper of the Game, A Concept10 Sedna, Keeper of the Game, A Concept12 Koyukon Bear, Wolf, and WolverineCeremonials (film)1719 Mid-Term24 Mid-Term2 6 The Keeper Of the Game31 Disease, A Koyukon Environmental ConceptNovember 2 The East Cree Hunt9 The East Cree Hunt14 The East Cree Hunt (film)16 Landscape Changes, Cultural Stability21 Fire in California2 8 Pawnee and Fire30 Pawnee and FireDecember 5 Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act7 Cultural Ecological Conflict12 Cultural Ecological Conflict14 ConclusionFinal Examination: December 21, 2000, 10:10-12:10.Page 2Attendance:Attendance is not required for this class, but students will be held responsible for all material presented in class, including visual material.Readings:The required books and reserve readings for this course are as follows:First Examination:G. Wilson, Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden.K. Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places.Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis," Science. Reserve Room, Mansfield Library.Ellen B. Basso, "The Enemy of Every Tribe: "Bushman" Images in Northern Athapaskan Narratives," American Ethnologist. Reserve Room, Mansfield Library.Second Examination:W. Cronon, Changes in the Land.G. Wenzel, Animal Rights, Human- Rights.C. Martin, Keepers of the Game.Kim Bartlett, "A New Ethic or an End to a Way of Life,"The Animal Agenda. Reserve Room, Mansfield Library.James Mooney, "The Origin of Disease and Medicine," TheSacred Formulas of the Cherokees, Reserve Room, MansfieldLibrary.Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science. Reserve Room, Mansfield Library.Fikret Berkes, "Common-Property Resource Management and Cree Indian Fisheries in Subartic Canada," Reserve Reading Room, Mansfield Library.Grading:The student's grade will be based upon the mid-term (essay) and final examinations (essay). Each examination will be worth one third of the student's total grade.The last one third of the student's grade will be earned by writing a scholarly paper and to meet this requirement, citations must be included. One part of this paper will be a story, a story from tribal literature that will be the authority for understanding a specific tribe's environmental ethic in your paper. Include the story as an appendix to your research paper. Since acts of production do not occur in a vacuum, after you have found a story, then place the story in a landscape that the tribal culture that produced the story used. You may need toPage 3include some detail about the tribal culture that used that landscape as well as detail about the landscape itself. The third part of your paper will require you to explain and to Analyze the environmental ethic found in the story, this will require an explanation of the specific tribal environmental beliefs. The fourth part of you paper will be an analysis of the environmental ethic, which you must identify, and how it relates to an act of production in the specific tribal culture. Ideas from class will provide with clues for examining materials and improving your discussion of tribal environmental ethics in your paper.The goal will be to understand tribal environmental ethics and tribal behavior associated with their understanding of their ethics beliefs in acts of production. Proper citations must be used. Topic sentences are necessary. The theme.and thesis must be clearly stated. Tags, transitions from one paragraph to the next, must be used. This paper will allow the student to understand, in a specific setting, how tribal use their physical environment and their beliefs about their physical environments.Graduate Students:Graduate students will write a lengthy research paper (20 pages or longer) and will produce a second paper such as an annotated bibliography of their research project. The paper(s) will be problem oriented and original. Graduate Students will discuss their papers with the instructor.Academic Honest:The University of Montana expects its students to be academically honest, particularly in regards to plagiarism. Plagiarism is taking someone else's ideas and thoughts and presenting them as one's own. Copyright laws are rigid as it concerns plagiarism, as is the University. Please refer to page 20 of the current University catalog for more specific information regarding penalties for such action. Academic dishonesty in Native American Studies classes will result in a failing grade in the course and disciplinary action consistent with University policies.Drop/Add Deadline:October 16, 2000 is the last day to drop this course or any other course at the University.

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