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Susan
E. Stans
Office Hours: W 12-1,
Thurs 1:30-3:30,
or by appointment
Phone: 941-590-7174
FAX 941-590-7200
E-Mail: sstans@fgcu.edu
Office: Whitaker 250
Dr. Stans
Website
Class meets
Thursdays 9:30-12:15
        
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Overview
This course
is a survey of Native Americans from the Southeastern US from the past
to the present in relationship to the environment in which they have
lived and moved. Topics include cultural heritage as it relates to local
environment and tourism, cultural survival, issues of land and tribal
identity, and environmental justice concerns among modern tribes. This
course may be used to fulfill Gordon Rule requirements if needed by
the student and is accepted as an elective in the Environmental Studies
Major.
| Goals
and Objectives |
Assessment |
| 1.
To understand cultural diversity: Students will be introduced to
Native Americans of the Southeastern United States from pre-history
to the present. |
Students
will read five books on different facets of Southeastern Indian
culture from the past to the present. |
| 2.
To communicate effectively: Students will use a variety of writing
genres to synthesize what they have read in the texts. |
Students
will be graded on their six papers which include narrative writing,
age appropriate text, comparisons, and position papers using logic. |
| 3.
To visualize the environmental relationships in culture. Students
will look for patterns that create a relationship between the social,
physical, and ideological environment and human culture. |
Paper
subjects are to integrate environmental perspective into their thinking
and writing. |
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participate in Sun-Earth Day to draw connections between Native
American stories and Sun and Earth Science. |
a.
Writing a Seminole children’s book and activity sheets on Seminole
technology and natural resources.
b. Illustrating or interviewing a Native American to learn stories
related to the creation of the earth or sun. |
Texts
Brown, Robin. 1994. Florida's First People. Sarasota, FL: Pineapple
Press, Inc.
MacCauley. 2000. The Seminole Indians of Florida. Gainesville, FL: University
Press of Florida.
Faiman-Silva, Sandra. 1997. Choctaws at the Crossroads. Lincoln, NE:
University of Nebraska Press.
Blu, Karen I. 1980. The Lumbee Problem: The Making of an American Indian
People. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
Finger, John R. 1991. Cherokee Americans: the Eastern Band of Cherokees
in the Twentieth Century. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
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