Landscapes of Indigeneity: Indigenous Peoples and Law in North America

Landscapes of Indigeneity: Indigenous Peoples and Law in North America is a Social Science class taught by Jennifer Hamilton.

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Course Description
This course explores the some of the current legal issues facing indigenous peoples in the US and Canada from an anthropological perspective. An orienting question for this course is how contemporary "landscapes of indigeneity" came to be as a result of complex legal, political, economic and sociocultural processes. Topics include law, colonialism, and nation-building; law, science, and the emergence of indigenous legal identities; real and intellectual property; and contemporary indigenous legal issues in (post)colonial settler societies including repatriation, Indian gaming, and resource rights.

Syllabus
COURSE SCHEDULE This course schedule is subject to change based on the needs of the class. You are responsible for any changes to this syllabus announced during class. Any changes will also be posted on the course homepage. The course homepage should be considered the most up-to-date version of the syllabus.

Wed Sep 9 Introduction to Landscapes of Indigeneity

Mon Sep 14 Introduction to Landscapes of Indigeneity

Biolsi, Thomas 2005 Imagined Geographies: Sovereignty, Indigenous Space, and American Indian Struggle. American ethnologist 32(2):239-259. (O)

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120128869/abstract

Blomley, Nicholas 1998 Landscapes of Property. Law &amp; Society Review 32(3):567-612. (O)

Wed Sep 16 Introduction to Landscapes of Indigeneity

Johnson, Miranda 2008 Making History Public: Indigenous Claims to Settler States. Public Culture 20(1):97-117. (O)

Mon Sep 21 Indigeneity, Capitalism, and Casinos

Cattelino, High Stakes, Introduction and Chapter 1, pp. 1-58 (T)

Wed Sep 23 Landscapes of Indigeneity in the Northeast

Film: We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower (2009, 90 min) www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/

ASSIGNMENT: Landscapes of Indigeneity in the Northeast (distributed in class) Mon Sep 28 Yom Kippur--no classes

Wed Sep 30 Indigeneity, Capitalism, and Casinos

Cattelino, High Stakes, Chapters 2-3, pp. 59-126 (T)

Hamilton, “Resettling Musqueam Park,” Indigeneity in the Courtroom, Chapter 4, pp. 45-70 (T) www.musqueam.bc.ca

DEADLINE: Landscapes of Indigeneity in the Northeast paper

Mon Oct 5

Indigeneity, Capitalism, and Casinos

Cattelino, High Stakes, Chapters 4-5, Conclusion, pp. 127-205 (T)

ASSIGNMENT: Final Project Brainstorm due

Wed Oct 7 Indigeneity and Identity

Kauanui, Hawaiian Blood, Introduction and Chapter 1, pp. 1-65 (T)

Mon Oct 12 October break--no classes

Wed Oct 14 Indigeneity and Identity

Kauanui, Hawaiian Blood, 2-4, pp. 67-143 (T)

Mon Oct 19 Indigeneity and Identity

Kauanui, Hawaiian Blood, 5-6, pp. 145-196 (T)

Case Study Rice v. Cayetano, 528 U.S. 495 (2000)

Wed Oct 21 Indigeneity and Identity: Federal Recognition

Special Guest: Professor Kathleen Brown-Pérez (Brothertown Indian Nation, Wisconsin) Assistant Professor of Commonwealth College, UMass-Amherst and Chair, Five College Native American Indian Studies Program

Readings:

C.F.R. § 83.1 (Code of Federal Regulations, Procedures for Establishing That an American Indian Group Exists as an Indian Tribe) (O)

Brothertown Indian Nation

DEADLINE: Final Project Outline due by noon on Friday October 23rd in my mailbox or under my office door (FPH G-6).

Mon Oct 26 Gendered Indigeneity

Hamilton, “Healing the Bishop: Sexual Violence, Consent, and the Legal Erasure of Colonial History,” Indigeneity in the Courtroom, Chapter 3, pp. 24-44 (T)

Smith, Andrea “Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide” and “Boarding School Abuses and the Case for Reparations,” from Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, pp. 7-54 (O)

Wed Oct 28 Indigenous Healthscapes

Kelm, M. E. 2004 Wilp Wa'ums: Colonial Encounter, Decolonization and Medical Care among the Nisga'a. Soc Sci Med 59(2):335-349. (O)

Mihesuah, Devon A. 2003 Decolonizing Our Diets by Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens. American Indian Quarterly 27(3):807-839. (O)

Mon Nov 2 Indigenous Healthscapes

Fee, Margery 2006 Racializing Narratives: Obesity, Diabetes and the “Aboriginal” Thrifty Genotype. Social science &amp; medicine 62(12):2988-2997. (O)

Poudrier, Jennifer 2007 The Geneticization of Aboriginal Diabetes and Obesity: Adding Another Scene to the Story of the Thrifty Gene. Canadian Review of Sociology &amp; Anthropology 44(2):237-261. (O)

'''ASSIGNMENT: Short paper assignment about Indigeneity and Health distributed in class. Paper due Friday Nov 6th at noon in my mailbox or under my office door.'''

Wed Nov 4 Advising Day--no classes

Mon Nov 9 Landscapes of Indigeneity: Repatriation

Mihesuah, Repatriation Reader, pp. 1-15 (T) Bieder, Chapter 1, Repatriation Reader, pp. 19-36 Hinsley, Chapter 2, Repatriation Reader, pp. 37-55

Wed Nov 11 Landscapes of Indigeneity: Repatriation

Trope and Echo-Hawk, NAGPRA: Background and Legislative History, Repatriation Reader, pp. 123-168 (T)

Appendix, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Repatriation Reader, pp. 307-319 (T)

Film: Who Owns the Past?

Mon Nov 16 Landscapes of Indigeneity: Repatriation

Hamilton, Jennifer A. 2008 Of Caucasoids and Kin: Kennewick Man, Race, and Genetic Indigeneity in Bonnichsen v. United States. In Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts. Pp. 71-88. New York: Routledge.

Case Study: Bonnichsen v. United States

Film: Excerpts from Mystery of the First Americans (NOVA, 2000) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/first/

Wed Nov 18 Indigeneity and Identity Revisited Sturm, Blood Politics, pp. 1-51 (T)

Gross, Ariela 2007 'of Portuguese Origin': Litigating Identity and Citizenship among The "Little Races" In Nineteenth-Century America. Law and history review 25(3):467-512. (O)

Mon Nov 23 Indigeneity and Identity Revisited

Sturm, Blood Politics, pp. 52-107 and 168-212(T)

'''DEADLINE: First draft of final project due. Peer review for part of class.'''

Alternative Thanksgiving Potluck Breakfast

Wed Nov 25 Thanksgiving--no classes

Mon Nov 30 Indigeneity in a Genomic Age

Reardon, Jenny 2005 Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (excerpts, pp. 1-16 and 98-125) (O)

TallBear, Kimberly 2007 Narratives of Race and Indigeneity in the Genographic Project. The Journal of Law, Medicine &amp; Ethics 35(3):412-424. (O)

Wed Dec 2 Indigeneity in a Genomic Age

Film: Gene Hunters

Mon Dec 7 TBD

Wed Dec 9 Last Day of Class Conclusion: Landscapes of Indigeneity

DEADLINE: Final Project due at the beginning of class

Cattelino, Jessica. 2008. High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty. Durham: Duke University Press.


==== [http://www.routledge.com/books/Indigeneity-in-the-Courtroom-isbn9780415979047 Hamilton, Jennifer A. 2008. Indigeneity in the Courtroom: Law, Culture, and the Production of Difference in North American Courts. New York: Routledge.] ====



==== [http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-4079-9 Kauanui, J. Kehaulani. 2008. Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.] ====