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WORLD
HIS
TORY
AND
INDIG
ENOUS CULT
URES:
SOME DEFIN
ITIO
NS
DEFINITIONS
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.
2.
3.
4.
COATES DEFINITION CONTINUED (P 13-14)5.
6.
7.
8.
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