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- Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology:
From Conflict to Coalition
Anth 3510, Sept - Dec 2005 Dr. Kathryn Denning
Sept 26, 2005... Welcome!
Back to main 3510 page.
Plan for the day
1 Announcements/organizational stuff
2 Thomas King, The Truth About Stories, and Hughes, The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples
3 Either this week or next: A clip from If Only I Were an Indian. 1995. http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol2/no4/indian.html
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol2/no4/pask.html
Announcements / Reminders
1 Is anyone here for the first time today?
2 if you have had a problem obtaining the King or Hughes books, you may borrow the photocopy outside my office (Vari 2029); please return it intact as soon as possible, and within two hours. n.b. Anthro office area is locked before 8:30 and after 4:30.
3 For next week (Oct 3), keep reading the Hughes book, 60-138.
4 Next week (Oct 3), we'll discuss the Hughes book some more, and the rest of the course. No class Oct 10 (Thanksgiving). Test (10%) Oct 17 on King and Hughes books.
5 If you didn't hand in the first little seminar participation assignment last week, please do so today.
6 Writing Assignment 1 (10%) - is due next week, Oct 3, in class. (There are extra handouts outside my office, Vari 2029)
Thomas King: The Truth About Stories
Your Homework from last week:
Thanks for sharing information about your interest in this course and background knowledge.
Coming back to this question:
c) Once you’ve read 1-119 of King’s book, consider his statement, “The truth about stories is that that’s all we are.” What does this mean to you?
How People Become Indigenous
Saami, Scandinavia
http://www.saamicouncil.net/?deptid=1116
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San, Kalahari
http://www.kalaharipeoples.org/
San 'became indigenous' because of the waves of migration of Bantu-speaking African peoples to the south. Europeans came later.
Indigenous Britons?!
extent of Roman Empire 395 AD
after Rome fell
Languages of the World
Ethnologue:
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=world&seq=10
Linguistic distributions can show the effectiveness of colonization and assimilation.
Thomas King: The Truth About Stories
Lotte Hughes, The No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples
Common themes? What common processes have different groups of indigenous people faced? What are the key issues facing indigenous peoples today? Be specific.