Read textbook pages 11 – 23 and read or watch the three-part Lecture, “Origins of Indigenous Peoples” posted in Module II. You can also use the immersive reader to have the lectures read to you by a machine voice, which is quite good. You can choose to use a male or female voice and the reading speed is adjustable.
Watch the six short video clips at American Indian Knowledge.
https://www.crowcanyon.org/about-us/american-indian-knowledge/
The link above takes you to a website created by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. On this site begin scrolling down and read the text of the website until you come to the six short videos. Watch each video and listen for the different perspectives and emphases of each speaker. One speaker is a non-Native archaeologist, and the others are Hopi.
Before starting to write, you may benefit by a quick look at this July 2020 BBC News article Earliest Evidence for Humans in the Americas
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53486868
What to Discuss
Share your thoughts about the themes covered in the six short videos and try to address the following questions:
How do archaeologists and the Native Hopi find common ground?
What is that challenging task for archaeologists and what has changed more recently in their thinking?
How would you describe the perspective of the Hopi on land, food production, and natural resources?
Mention two topics or ideas from the textbook readings and the three-part lecture that are relevant to the videos?
What can you relate to personally in the short videos?
Post to at least one other class member.
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