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Remaining Week to Week Outline for Genre Fiction: Contemporary American Indian Literature 2/5, Week 4: Lecture: Complete screening of Where the Spirit Lives Discuss Chapters 3-6 in Tracks. Assign discussion leaders and teaching topics 2/12, Week 5: Lecture: Tracks. Mascot article. Teachers/Discussion Leaders: 1) Chapter 7: 2) Chapter 8: 3) Chapter 9: 4) The issue of sports mascots/activists etc: 5) Vine Deloria Jr. Artistic Interpretations: Chapter 7: Chapter 8: Chapter 9: Assignment: Option of writing on Tracks and read “Assimilation.” If you do not do the paper screen either Disney’s Pocahontus or Peter Pan with a critical eye. 2/19, Week 6: Lecture: Discuss “Assimilation” View and discuss Smoke Signals or The Business of Fancydancing Teachers/Discussion Leaders: 6) Sherman Alexie himself: 7) “Assimilation”: 8) Film and cultural analysis of Pocahontus or Peter Pan with clips: Artistic interpretations: “Assimilation”: Assignment: “The Toughest Indian in the World” “Class” and “South by Southwest” in The Toughest Indian in the World 2/26, Week 7: Lecture: Discuss “The Toughest Indian in the World,” “Class” and “South by Southwest” in Alexie’s Toughest Indian in the World Teachers/Discussion Leaders: 9) “The Toughest Indian in the World” 10) “Class”: 11) “South by Southwest”: Artistic interpretations: “Class”: “South by Southwest”: Assignment: Read “The Sin Eaters” and “Indian Country” 3/ 4, Week 8: Lecture: Discuss “The Sin Eaters,” “Indian Country” and read “In Dachau” Teachers/Discussion Leaders: 12 and 13) The themes of genocide and resistance in “The Sin Eaters”: 14) “Indian Country”: 15) Analysis of “Southwest” or another Indian museum 16) The American Indian Movement Artistic interpretations: “The Sin Eater(2): “Indian Country”: Assignment: “Saint Junior,” and “Dear John Wayne” 3/11, Week 9: Lecture: Discuss “Santa Junior” and “Dear John Wayne.” Teachers/Discussion Leaders on 17) “Saint Junior”: 18) “Dear John Wayne”: 19) Activist, political prisoner, artist Leonard Peltier: 20) N. Scott Momaday: Artistic interpretations: “Saint Junior”: “Dear John Wayne”: Assignment: Final writing assignment and Vine Deloria Jr. essay from Spirit and Reason 3/18, Week 10: Lecture: Possible guest speaker Teacher/Discussion Leaders: 21) Politician and activist Winona LaDuke: 22) Poet Joy Harjo 23) Performance artists James Luna Assignment: Alexie’s “One Good Man” and final paper 3/25, Week 11: Lecture: “One Good Man” Artistic interpretations: “One Good Man” Either leave early if whole class plans play or screen film. Assignment: Extra credit work: play. Suggested class trip to Autry National Center to view the play, Please Don’t Touch the Indians on date TBA. Details: http://www.museumoftheamericanwest.org/visit/event_detail.php?eventid=706 “…playwright Joseph A. Dandurand creates a strong and moving depiction of Native Americans' ability to love, laugh, and survive despite tragic loss.”
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