Seminar Schedule
Voices and Dreams

Week One:	History and Historiography	Readings
Week Two:	Literature	Readings
Week Three:	Art	Readings
Week Four:	Film	Readings

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Week One: History and Historiography | Overview |
Date	Scholar	Topic
M 6/02	Paul Apodaca	Overview of historiography: Conflicting images of Native Americans
	------	Film (excerpts): PBS Series, Images of Indians in Media
T 6/03	Russell Thornton	History and Demographics
	------	Curriculum Workshop: Reader Response Theory, Reading Logs, Simulation Games
W 6/04	Russell Thornton	Historiography: Discussion of Readings
	------	Film: ISHI: Last of His Tribe
R 6/05	Hank Stevens	Historiography, Anthropology, and Belief Systems
	------	Film: In the Land of the War Canoes, Edward S. Curtis
F 6/06	Marian Walkingstick	Field Trip: San Juan Capistrano Mission; Harrison House, San Juan; Caspers Wilderness Park; Juaneno Tribal Headquarters
Readings
Required: William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian Hating and Empire Building Calvin Martin, ed., The American Indian and the Problem of History Russell Thornton, American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 Recommended: Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Richard White, Scholars and the Indian Experience

Week Two: Literature | Overview |
Date	Scholar	Topic
M 6/09	Paul Apodaca	Storytelling, myth, symbolism. The Way to Rainy Mountain
	Greg Sarris	Biographies, autobiographies. Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream
T 6/10	Georgiana Sanchez	Autobiographies. I Tell You Now
	------	Curriculum Workshop: Role Playing
W 6/11	Georgiana Sanchez	Storytelling. Storyteller
	------	Film by Greg Sarris: Grand Avenue
R 6/12	Georgiana Sanchez	Heroes: Euroamerican and Native American
	Kenneth Lincoln	Indi'n Humor
F 6/13	------	Field Trip: The Southwest Museum and the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles
Readings
Required: George W. Cronyn, American Indian Poetry (selections) Kenneth Lincoln, Indi'n Humor (selections) N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain John Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, I Tell You Now (selections) James Welch, Winter in the Blood Recommended: Paula Gunn Allen, Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature 1974-1994 (selections) Mourning Dove, Cogewea, the Half-Blood E. Pauline Johnson, Moccasin Maker Arnold Krupat, The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon D'Arcy McNickle, The Surrounded N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn Greg Sarris, Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream Greg Sarris, Grand Avenue Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony James Welch, Fool's Crow

Week Three: Art | Overview |
Date	Scholar	Topic
M 6/16	Paul Apodaca	Themes of Native American Art
	Paul Apodaca	Slides and Artifacts
T 6/17	Paul Apodaca	Native American aesthetics
	------	Curriculum Workshop: Art project; Interdisciplinary culture research projects
W 6/18	Craig Stone	Art and art criticism
	------	Slides and discussion; conferences on seminar projects
R 6/19	Craig Stone	Art and art criticism (continued)
	------	Film: The White Dawn
F 6/20	------	Field Trip: The Bowers Museum, Santa Ana: guided tour of the special collection of Native American art
Readings
Required: Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, Lost and Found Traditions Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Religion, Art and Iconography: Man and Cosmos in Prehispanic Mesoamerica Recommended: Robert Berkhofer, Jr. The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present, Part 3: "Imagery in Literature, Art and Philosophy" Lucy R. Lippard, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America

Week One: Film | Overview |
Date	Scholar	Topic
M 6/23	Paul Apodaca	Images of Native Americans in Film
	Paul Apodaca	Film: Little Big Man
T 6/24	Greg Sarris	Literature into Film: Grand Avenue
	------	Curriculum Workshop: Film and technology in the classroom. Film: Imagining Indians
W 6/25	Hank Stevens	Images of Native Americans in film
	------	Film: Dances With Wolves
R 6/26	------	Field trip: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
F 6/27	Victor Masayesva	Film criticism and Native Americans; Native American filmmaking; Imagining Indians
Readings
Required: Robert Berkhofer, Jr. The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present, Part 3: "Imagery in Literature, Art and Philosophy" Raymond Stedman, Shadows of the Indian: Stereotypes in American Culture Recommended: Ward Churchill, Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians (selections) Hanay Geiogamah, New Native American Drama

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