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MODULE #1
ORIGINS AND PRE-CONTACT NORTH AMERICA |
I. Prerequisites: Admission
to the course.
II. Estimated Time : 1 - 2 Class sessions.
III. Goal of the Module: This module will
provide learning activities
designed to introduce the student to the various
theories and
hypotheses
concerning the populating of North America by
its first
inhabitants as well as the various cultural
changes that took place
prior to contact with the
approaching Europeans.
This module will also provide learning
activities designed to
familiarize the student to
the methodology utilized in examining
Indian
cultures covered in this course as we move from
culture area to the next comparing and
contrasting cultural
variations and similarities.
IV. Pre-assessment
: Before beginning this module, complete the
paper
and pencil test.
V. Objectives : After completing this module, the student will
be
able to :
A. Delineate at least three theories or
hypotheses explaining
the origins of the American Indian in the New World.
1. Bering Strait Land-Bridge Theory.
2. Earth Diver Stories.
3. Emergence Stories.
4. Trans-Oceanic Voyages.
5. Others.
B. The student will be able to examine the Big-Game Hunting
Tradition and differentiating
between:
1. Folsom.
2. Clovis.
3. Plano.
C. The student will be able to define what is meant by Pleistocene
Extinction.
D. Cite two examples of the Western Archaic Tradition and differentiate
between them.
E. Differentiate between Eastern Woodlands and the Mississippian
traditions,
citing examples of each.
F. The student will be able to define the
following:
1. cultural anthropology
2. archeology
3. trickster
4. socialization
5. shaman
6. burial mounds
7. temple mounds
8. atatl
9. horticulture
10. adaptation
11. assimilation
12. acculturation
13. culture
14. CBS
G. Culture, Linguistics and Subsistence patterns.
1. Cite at least 3 subsistence patterns of Indian people.
2. Define language phyla and language
family.
3. List 7 of the 9 culture areas to be
examined in this
course.
4. Cite the major language phyla of Native Americans.
H. Political, Economic, Social and Religious Organization
1. List at least 6 different types of Indian
housing and
differentiate between each of them.
2. Cite 4 examples of Indian arts and
crafts.
3. Delineate two types of Indian games.
4. Differentiate Indian clothing between
various culture
areas.
5. Delineate the Indians’ views toward
monotheism and
define shamanism.
6. Define : shaming, rite of passage,
unilineal,
matrilineal and patrilineal clans,
moieties, polygamy,
7. Define the role played by the Sun
Dance.
8. Delineate the role of the buffalo and
the horse to the
Plains Indian.
VI. Instructional alternatives :
A. Read the following :
1. Text :
Edmunds, Ch. 1
Mintz, Intro.
2. Handouts.
a. Beringia
b.
Culture Areas of N.A.
3. Lectures :
a. Origins
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b. Lecture
2: The Peopling of the Americas
c. Lecture 3:
Culture Stages in N.A.
d. Lecture
4: Hohokam et al.
e. Lecture
5: NE : Adena, Hopewell
f. Lecture 6:
(Visual)Pre-Contact Cultures
of North America
4. View the following videos on reserve at the Palomar
College:
a.
500 Nations - Part 1 The Ancestors
b.
500 Nations - Part 2 Empires of the Sun
B. Other resources :
1. See Links (especially the history page)
2. Pre-History Notes - at:
http://daphne.palomar.edu/ais100/early_cultures.htm
3. See notes on Native American Roots and
Native American Cultures at:
http://daphne.palomar.edu/ais100/
VII. Post
Assessment : Complete the objective test at the end of this
module on
Blackboard at PConline.
VIII. Remediation : If mastery criteria is not achieved, check with the
instructor
to obtain the necessary alternatives to master the objectives.
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