1. Connections & Introductions
Main ideas, key terms and important issues

2. Introductions Overview of the course Student background
Questions about Indigenous people, especially in borderlands region?
Write three questions on a card
Class discussion

3. Terminology and Ideas Conquest, colonialism, empire, imperialism
Time, space/place
Land & identity
Language/oral tradition
Documentation/evidence
Methodology
Subjectivity/objectivity
Ethnohistory
Decolonization
Sovereignty
Nationhood/people-hood
Western Civilization
Frontier/Manifest Destiny
Wilderness
Savagery/civilization
Salvage Ethnography
Progress
Christianity/conversion
Ethnocentrism
Cultural filters
Indian-White relations

4. Things to think about
Contemporary relationships btwn Indigenous peoples across the border
How has sovereignty developed over time?
Structures of Indigenous peoplehood?
How did Native People in the US deal with SP, MX, American colonialism
Relationships btwn Native People and “the state”
Reservations
What is Indigenous identity & how has/does it change?
Differences in MX and US?
Do the terms “race” and “ethnicity” apply? How?
Impact of “research?”
Status? Sovereign, ward, nation, citizen, subject
Blood and ID
Historical memory?
Different ways of conceiving the past

5. Things to think about
What problems did the emergence of the U.S.-Mexico border create for Indigenous peoples in the region?
Migration & movement
“Tri-nationalism”
Families, sacred sites, ceremonies
How did (do) they respond to these problems?
Reactions to “immigration” debates?
Reactions to border wall and militarization
Homeland Security and Border Patrol?

8. Tohono O’Odham Lands

11. Tigua land grant & reduction

12. Kickapoo

13. Images and Stereotypes

14. Cowboys & Indians

15. Wild West in Pop Culture

16. Continued…

17. “Pedagogy of anti-Indianism”

18. Playing Indian, Playing Cowboy

19. Wild West Rhetoric = Policy

20. The Land of Enchantment
Image of New Mexico and its people
Traditional, ancient
Non-modern, no progress
Authentic unchanging culture
Foreign & exotic
Commodification and marketing of the image

21. Land of Enchantment

22. Catholicism, spirituality

23. Acoma Pueblo

24. Santa Fe Railroad

25. Fred Harvey Corporation

26. The Santa Fe Mystique

27. Hopi “Snake Dance”
"..their voices rising out of the depths of an archaic America we have never known, out of immeasurable time, form a fathomless unconscious who archetypes are as mysterious and incomprehensible to us as the symbols found engraved on the cliff walls of ancient ruins…. the purpose of their religious ceremonialism is to help maintain the harmony of the universe…. They remind us we must attune ourselves to the need for inner change if we are to avert a cataclysmic rupture between our own minds and hearts." Frank Waters, Book of the Hopi

28. Iconography and symbols

29. Conclusions Deeply entrenched stereotypes
Preconceived notions about NM culture, and by extension, the Southwest
Foreign, not quite American
Ancient, past vs. progress modernity
Mystical, spiritual, religious