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Today we'll complete a circle. One of the first Native cultures we looked at, back in the winter, was that of the Unangan Aleuts who liv...

Unlike any other Native American cultural area is that of the Northwest Coast, which would include Oregon, Washington, the Canadian province...

We're not even going to try to cover the different styles of architecture evolved by Native American peoples in the week we've got l...

Guidelines for paper: 1. Length is 3-5 pages, typed, double-spaced, 12pt. 2. Documented. Either MLA or APA style. Don't get obsessive-co...

Here's a website I just discovered that gives reaction to Navajo traditions by students at Huafan University in Taiwan. The traditions ...

Here are the questions: 1. How does "My Grandfather Was a Quantum Physicist" raise the same issues as a powwow? 2. How does the po...

Write a 3- to 5-page paper (750-1,200 words double-spaced in 12pt type) in which you give your response to the poem "Sháá Áko Dahjiníle...

On Wednesday, April 4, we will do two things: 1. I will collect your term paper proposals. Details below. 2. You will write the first draft...

Review Duane BigEagle's poem "Pull" on pages 59-60 in today's reading for class. Write a brief reader response and post it...

One thing I want to encourage you in your papers is to do a reader (or listener or viewer) response. Here's a tip sheet on writing one a...

We're going to have two papers in Humanities 221 this spring. Each will be about five pages in length, although you can go longer if you...

Posted here to the blog so I won't forget it is a recipe for what I like to call "Lutheran Potluck Posole" and Pastor Jon Berg...

Please answer these questions ... post them as comments to this blogpost. 1. How did Gogisgi get his name? What does it mean? 2. How is his ...

We'll start the second half of the semester by studying the Cherokee people. Several of you said on your midterms you have Cherokee Indi...

Two key concepts in our study of Native American cultural expression this semester are commodification and expropriation. Of the two, commod...

Please post your answers as comments to this blog ... 1. Were there any preconceptions, stereotypes or just plain wrong ideas the Indians ha...

I promised you some heavy-duty, industrial-strength hints about what's going to be on the midterm ... which is in class Monday, March 5....

Not far from Bloomington in McLean County, a pow wow, or Native American dance competition, is held every year to commemorate a Kickapoo Ind...

Some of the history we are studying this semester played out in other nations worldwide as Europeans fanned out over the globe after the 140...

Links to some resources on the Potawatomi Trail of Death below. But first, the questions for today's quiz: 1. At what restaurant in down...