Anthropology 146 Course Outline
Lesson 1: Course Introduction and Native American Stereotypes
Lesson 2: North American Prehistory
Lesson 3: The Southeast Culture Area
Lesson 4: The Northeast Culture Area - Part I
Lesson 5: The Northeast Culture Area - Part II
Lesson 6: The Great Plains Culture Area - Part I
Lesson 7: The Great Plains Culture Area - Part II
Lesson 8: The Southwest Culture Area - Pueblo Peoples
Lesson 9: The Southwest Culture Area - Athabaskan Speakers
Lesson 10: The Northwest Coast Culture Area
Lesson 11: The California, Great Basin, and Columbia Plateau Culture Areas
Lesson 12: The Subarctic Culture Area
Lesson 13: The Arctic Culture Area - Part I
Lesson 14: The Arctic Culture Area - Part II
Lesson 15: Modern Native American Adaptations
Native American Issues in the News
Death of Girl Part of Indian Prisons Inquiry
May 23rd, 2004—A federal probe into deaths, abuse and neglect in the Native American prison system is focusing on about 20 of the system's 74 prisons, and it includes the death of a 16-year-old girl in Oregon last December, two Interior Department officials with knowledge of the inquiry say.
Cindy Gilbert Sohappy, a member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, was put in a holding cell attached to the Chemawa Indian School, a boarding school in Salem, Ore., when she was found to be intoxicated the night of Dec. 6. She was found dead about three hours later from alcohol poisoning. Her death raised questions about the monitoring of cells at the facility. <more>
USA Today
Some Indian Tribes Still Fighting for Government Recognition
May 22nd‚ 2004—Redding, CA (AP) - The fog dips low into the snowcapped mountains as the emerald McCloud River meanders through the valley, a silent guardian over the graves and culture of the Winnemem Wintu tribe. The tribe's spiritual leader, her face etched, walks to its bank and looks at the rock where children have received wisdom over the centuries, the grave sites only they know of and the land that sustained her ancestors. There were 14,000 Wintu. By the 1900s, massacres, disease and starvation wiped out all but 395. Today, just 125 remain. The Wintu are a tribe in every sense of the word: They eat meals together, pray together, gather for ceremonies and business. Their ancestors lived along the McCloud River in Northern California, and the river is still where the Wintu gather. They bring their children, swim in the still water, pray and visit their sacred sites. It is their purpose, they believe, to protect the McCloud. <more>.
Associated Press