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.”