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Richard Grounds speaks to students about the
current status of Native Languages
Announcements
2006 Winter Quarter Course Offering
NATIVEAM 109B:
Native Americans in the 21st Century:
Encounters,
Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America
Taught
by Professor Michael Wilcox
Day & Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 1:15-2:45 pm
Location: Building 200-305
Description:
What does it mean to be a Native American in
the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests,
cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native
Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading to
in-class moot court trials: colonial encounters and colonizing
discourses; frontiers and boundaries; and sovereignty of self and
nation. Topics include gender in native communities, American Indian
law, readings by native authors, and Indians in film and popular
culture.
For information, contact
mwilcox@stanford.edu or visit at Building 110, Room 112.
NATIVEAM 116:
Language Culture and Education in Native North America
(same as CSRE 116, CASA 116X)
Taught by: Dr. Sharon
Nelson-Barber
Visiting Lecturer in
Native American Studies
Day & Time: Monday,
10:00-11:50 am
Location: 60-62J
Description:
Communication and language in crosscultural education, including
literacy and interethnic communication in relation to native classrooms
in the mainland U.S., Alaska, and nations and territories of the
Pacific. Focus is on implications of social, cultural, and linguistic
diversity for educational practice in bridging intercultural
differences between schools and native communities.
For information, contact
mibarra@stanford.edu or visit the CCSRE Undergraduate Program Office,
Building 240, Room 103.
NATIVEAM 138: American
Indians in Comparative Historical Perspective
Taught by: Dr. Matthew
Snipp
Day & Time: Monday
and Wednesday, 2:15-3:30 pm
Location: 60-62J
Description:
Demographic, political, and economic processes and events that shaped
relations between Euro-Americans and American Indians, 1600-1890. How
the intersection of these processes affected the outcome of conflicts
between these two groups, and how this conflict was decisive in
determining the social position of American Indians in the late 19th
century and the evolution of the doctrine of tribal sovereignty.
For information, contact
Dr. Snipp by phone (650) 725-0414 or visit the Building 120, Room 138.
NATIVEAM 193N: Peer
Counseling: Native American Community
Taught by: Dr. Winona
Simms and Alejandro Martinez
Day & Time:
Wednesday, 3:15-5:05 pm
Location: School of
Education 209
Description:
Verbal and non-verbal communication, strategic use of questions,
methods of dealing with strong feelings, and conflict resolution. How
elements of counseling apply to Native Americans including client,
counselor, and situational variables in counseling, non-verbal
communication, the role of ethnic identity in self-understanding, the
relationship of culture to personal development, the impact of family
on personal development, gender roles, and the experience of Native
American students in university settings. Individual skill development,
group exercises, and role practice.
For information, contact
wsimms@stanford.edu or
visit the American Indian, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiian
Programs Office.
NATIVEAM
233A: Counseling
Theories and Interventions
from a
Multicultural Perspective
Taught
by: Dr. Teresa LaFromboise
Day & Time: Monday
and Wednesday, 9:00-10:50 am
Location: Bldg420-050
Description: The impact
of culture on counseling and
intervention, theory problem presentation, relationship formation, and
intervention development and evaluation in individual and group
counseling, and in helping encounters in school and community settings.
For information, contact lafrom@stanford.edu
or visit at 216 Cubberley
Building.
About Native American Studies
Native American Studies is part of Comparative
Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) at Stanford.
Undergraduate
sttudents can major or minor in Native American Studies.
The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
at Stanford
University provides many opportunities for teaching and research on
topics
of race and ethnicity from both domestic and international comparative
perspectives. Since 1996 it has drawn on on the intellectual
interests
of nearly one-hundred Affiliated Faculty, who represent fourteen
departments
and all six schools at the University.
There are three Native American Faculty members teaching
at Stanford.
All may teach courses within CSRE.
(Read below a partial list of courses being taught during Winter
Quarter
2004.)
Dr. Teresa LaFromboise (Miami) Education
Dr. Matthew Snipp (Choctaw/Cherokee) Sociology
Dr. Michael Wilcox (Yuma) Cultural and Social Anthropology
Resources
The Native American Resource Center, next door to the Native American
Cultural
Center, has an extensive library including books, periodicals, video
and
audio tapes, and a community archive. The list of Native
American Authors on the Internet Public Library is also a valuable
reference.
The Stanford University Library website has a page
devoted to Native
American Studies resources. http://library.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/native/indian.html
The Cantor Center for
Visual
Arts (the Stanford Museum) has an extensive Native American
collection
representing tribal and geographic groups from Alaska to Hawai'i and
from
Canada to South America. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/SUMA/natam.html
For everything from individual research opportunities to
graduate school
application services, please refer to Undergraduate
Research Programs at Stanford.
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