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In today’s class we will define indigenous peoples

Explore how they have participated in history

Better understand culture and who and why we study culture in history

Explore stereotypes society holds about indigenous people

A. DISCOVERING AND UNDERSTANDING THE NACIREMA, BY GEORGE MURDOCK, RALPH LINTON

Reading Quiz on Article:

1. Who are the holy mouthmen?

DISCUSSION ON THE NACIREMA

Group Discussion on Article

What surprised you?

What is the culture in question?

What insights does this piece provide into the study of ethnic minority histories?

B. HISTORY AND CULTURES: HOW TO LINK THE TWO OVER 500 YEARS? BEGIN DEFINITIONS…

Study of Indigenous History

Who is an indigenous person?

But isn’t everyone indigenous?

Or is nobody indigenous?

Definitions of indigenous people:

Julian Berger, UN official and International political advocate (Coates 5-6)

Jose’ Martinez Cobo, Ecuadorian diplomat (Coates 6)

UN Commission on Human Rights, UN Economic and Social Council (Coates 7)

IWGIA (Coates 11)

C. COATES’ DEFINITIONS (8 POINTS) (P. 13) 1.

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COATES DEFINITION CONTINUED (P 13-14)5.

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CLASS DEFINITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

19 AUGUST 2015Indigenous People are:

And why do definitions matter anyway?

Why define some people but not others?

C. STEREOTYPES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE?Identify a stereotype about a group of people different than

yourself…

Small group:

1. SG: Identify some stereotypes of indigenous people that you have heard

Entire class:

2. Why are stereotypes false?

3. Why are stereotypes hurtful?

STEREOTYPES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN FILM1. Warriors of the Amazon: (Yanomami)

Napoleon Chagnon, Anthropologist, “The Fierce People”

2. The New World (Pocahontas)

3. Smoke Signals (Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho)

Identify popular stereotypes of indigenous people exemplified in these film clips

INDIGENOUS ROLES IN HISTORY

SG: What role have indigenous people played in North Carolina History?

What role have Native Americans played in US History?

What role have indigenous people played in world history?

Why are cultures different around the world?

Do indigenous cultures differ from cultures of European descent?

E. CONTEMPORARY INDIGENOUS SITUATION1. Outsider views of indigenous peoples

2. Changing western views of indigenous peoples and cultures

3. Anthropologist Franz Boas: positive, distinctive descriptions of indigenous people

4. Simplistic evolutionary descriptions are no longer valid

5. Victims of Progress or Historical Actors? (John Bodley)

6. Strong political force in many nations

F. THEMES IN GLOBAL INDIGENOUS HISTORY1. How do we account for the survival of indigenous people?

2. Attraction of Cultural demise, inevitability of cultural demise

3. What is your ancestry?

4. Has your ancestral culture changed?

5. Haven’t all cultures changed throughout history?

6. Cultural change and not death?

7. Forces threatening indigenous peoples and cultures?

8. So why are we still sad when native cultures change?

E. CONCLUSIONS

Indigenous People

Identity

Definitions

Stereotypes

Presence in World History