Format: Your answers should be typed in Times New Roman style, 12 point font. You may use single or double-space. You must use standard margins on the sides. DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MARGINS.
This is an open-note and open document assignment; you are to use the readings, class notes, and slides to answer these questions. You may use parenthetical notations. You must cite material, such as direct quotes or heavily paraphrased passages that you draw from the published readings. You may use the Tom Porter readings, Basic Call to Consciousness, the online readings, and class information. If you are using class notes or the PowerPoint slide shows, you may use abbreviated title information. For example, class notes can be cited as (Wiemann, lecture date) and PowerPoint slides can be cited as (Title of presentation, slide number).
Part I: Identifications – 40 points (10 points apiece)
Choose FOUR (7) of the following identification terms. You must pick at least one from each block. Identify who or what they are and their importance.
Group A Group B
Joseph Brant Ely S. Parker
Molly Brant Thomas Indian School
Treaty of Canandaigua Kinzua Dam
Handsome Lake Sherrill vs. Oneida Nation of Indian
Group C Group D
Indian Reorganization Act Shirley Hill Witt
CCC-ID Richard Oakes
Alice Lee Jemison Oren Lyons
Oneida Language and Folklore Project Ex parte Greene
WPA Seneca Arts and Crafts Project Iroquois Declaration of War – WWII
Part II: Basic Call to Consciousness questions – 60 points
Answer the following questions based on your reading of the three position papers published in Basic Call to Consciousness, pages 80-118. These questions cover the three specific papers that the Haudenosaunee delegation delivered in Geneva, Switzerland in 1977. Use your personal copy or the one held in Reserve at Coulter Library.
Paper 1: “Spiritualism: The Highest Form of Political Consciousness,” pages 85-91
1. How are “Natural Ways” and “Natural People” defined in this paper? Why is it important to understand the Natural World and the traditions of the Natural World?
Paper 2: “The Obvious Fact of our Continuing Existence,” pages 92-102
2. What were the five principles that Europeans used to declare sovereignty over American territory and its peoples?
3. How are indigenous peoples made to be “illegitimate” in the official government policies of the United States and Canada?
Paper 3: “Policies of Oppression in the Name of ‘Democracy,’” pages 103-118
4. What was the traditional basis of “Haudenosaunee economics”?
5. According to this paper, how have the Haudenosaunee met the classifications of an oppressed people? How can they counter that oppression and launch a social, political, and economic resurgence?
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