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The course will survey several of the geo-cultural regions/groups
of Native North and Central America, including the Aztecs
and Mayans, the Hopi, Muskogee, Cree and the Lakota (Sioux),
among possible others. The course will also deal with such
religious responses to contact with Euro-American culture
as the Ghost Dance and the Native American Church. Finally,
some contemporary expressions of Native American religion
in literature and film will be examined.
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Spring 2009 Syllabus (TBA)
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Sample
take-home essay (PDF)
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Evaluation
Form (PDF)
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Books:
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Hultkrantz, Ake
Native Religions of North America: The Power of Visions
and Fertility
ISBN: 0881339857
Publisher: Waveland Press 1987
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Carrasco, David
Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial
Centers
ISBN: 1577660064
Publisher: Waveland Press April 1998
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Silko, Leslie Marmon
Ceremony
ISBN: 0143104918
Publisher: Penguin Books, Anniversary edition 2006
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Neihardt, John G.
Black Elk Speaks, New Edition
ISBN: 0803283857
Publisher: Bison Books; 3rd edition 2004
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Readings
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Aztec
Theology and Mythology (PDF)
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Pueblo
Indian World in the Sixteenth Century (PDF)
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The
Revelation of Handsome Lake (PDF)
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War
and Culture: The Iroquois Experience (PDF)
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The
Shawnee Prophets Speech to General Harrison (PDF)
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From
"Middle Ground" to "Underground" (PDF)
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The Lakota
Ghost Dance: An Ethnohistorical Account (PDF)
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The
Sioux and The Ghost Dance (PDF)
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Wovoka's
Ghost Dance Message (PDF)
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Mexican
and American Peyote Ceremonies in the Early Nineteenth Century
(PDF)
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Groups
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Muskogee
Creek Religion (PDF)
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Cherokee
Religion (PDF)
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Hopi
Religion (PDF)
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Moundville
(PDF)
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Lakota
(PDF)
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Cree
Bear Hunting (PDF)
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Ainu
Bear Ceremony (PDF)
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Sample
Take-home Exam
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