The Native Peoples of North America:

History and Culture

PREFACE

• What This Website and Class Are About
• Disclaimer
• Evaluating Web Sites - A General Guide
• Evaluating Web Sites Dealing with Native Americans

SYLLABUS

IN THE BEGINNING

RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST

• Tribal Views of Native American Origins
• Scientific Views of Native American Origins
• Techniques for Analyzing Archaeological Material
  • Stratigraphy
  • Radiocarbon Dating
  • Dendrochronology
  • Archeomagnetism
  • Lexicostatistics
  • Genetics

THE EXOTIC ENVIRONMENT

POPULATING THE NEW LAND

• Who Were the First Americans?
• When Did People First Arrive in the Americas?
• How Did The First People Get To The Americas?
  • Beringia

HISTORICAL PERIODS AND TRADITIONS

• Paleo-Indian - Pioneering Americans
• The Archaic Period: Spreading Out and Settling In
• The Formative Period
  • Eastern Woodlands
    • Adena
    • Hopewell
    • Mississippian
  • Southwestern United States
    • Anasazi
      • Kivas
    • Hohokam
    • Mogollon
• The European Invasion and Conquest
  • Clash of Cultures
    • Spanish, French, Dutch, British, Russian
  • European Expansion
    • Northeastern
    • Central Atlantic
    • Southeastern
    • Southern
    • Western
  • Cauldron of War
    • French and Indian War
    • Proclamation of 1765
    • Pontiac
  • Loss of the East
    • American Revolution and the Delaware
    • War of 1812
    • The Indian Removal Act
  • Struggle for the West
    • Spanish Invasions
    • Russian Invasions
    • Anglo-American Invasions
  • End of Freedom
    • More Wars
    • Reservations
    • Stealing The Children
    • Allotment
  • We Shall Overcome - From Citizenship to AIM to Gambling Casinos

REGIONAL LIFEWAYS: The Ethnographic Present

• Arctic
• Subarctic
• Northwest Coast
• Plateau
• California
• Great Basin
• Southwest
• Plains
• Northeast Woodlands
• Southeast Woodlands

RESOURCES - Books etc.

• General Books and Periodicals
• Women
• Native American Spirituality, Religion, and Medicine
• Biological and Cultural Impacts of European-Ameropean colonization
• Sterotype vs. Reality
• A Guide to Research

RESOURCES - World Wide Web

• List of Links to Lots of WWW sites dealing with all aspects of Native America

SPECIAL INTERESTS

• Shamanism
• Medicine
  • Ohlone Medical Ethnobotany
  • California Indian Medicine
• Latest News and Views From the Print Media
• The Mystery of the First Americans - NOVA Online
• This Week In American Indian History

Next Destination?

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