SYLLABUS: HIST 338B – Native Communities in Southern California
from Colonization to the 20th Century – Spring 2008
Contents: Work Required, Schedule, Textbooks, Professor, Grading, Incompletes and Grade Changes
This class will meet Mondays and Wednesdays from 230 to 345pm in Markstein 214.
The course considers the responses of native communities in Southern California to the changes that came with colonization from Mexico beginning in 1769 and then Americanization beginning in 1846 and 1847.
This course necessarily involves both the recorded history and the ethnography of native peoples in Southern California. The recorded history can only be understood in the context of a knowledge of indigenous cultures, which is most accessible to us through the work of ethnohistorians and anthropologists. (An ethnohistorian is a historian who uses anthropological data and methods, or an anthropologist who integrates ethnology and ethnography – the study and recording of cultures – with historical knowledge.)
Work Required. Graded assignments for this course include the following:
| • | Attendance and participation |
| • | Mid-term examination |
| • | Term paper synopsis |
| • | Term paper |
| • | Final examination |
Schedule. Wed., Jan. 23: Introduction
Mon., Jan. 28: Report on assigned website
Wed., Jan. 30: Discuss Shipek xi-10 – indigenous period (Preface and Chapter 1)
Mon., Feb. 4: Discuss term paper
Wed., Feb. 6: Discuss Shipek 11-18, Hyer 7-19 – indigenous period
Mon., Feb. 11: Discuss Shipek 19-28 – colonization
Wed., Feb. 13: Discuss Hyer 21-35 – colonization
Mon., Feb. 18: Discuss Shipek 28-34 – Americanization
Wed., Feb. 20: Discuss Hyer 37-54 – Americanization
Mon., Feb. 25: Discuss Hyer 55-75 – Americanization
Wed., Feb. 27: Discuss Shipek 34-46 – Reservations
Mon., March 3: Discuss Hyer 77-92 – Pala Reservation
Wed., March 5: Discuss Hyer 93-110 – cultural conflict
Mon., March 10: Mid-term examination
Wed., March 12: Discuss Hyer 111-128 – Removal
Mon., March 17: Individual meetings about term paper – hand in term-paper synopsis
Wed., March 19: Individual meetings about term paper – hand in term-paper synopsis
Mon., March 24: Discuss Hyer 129-149 – Pala Reservation
Wed., March 26: Discuss Hyer 151-170 – Pala School
Mon., April 7: Discuss Hyer 171-190 – Cupeño culture to 1920
Wed., April 9: Discuss Shipek 46-59 – allotment and land use
Mon., April 14: Discuss Shipek 60-73 – reservation types, membership, unallotted land tenure
Wed., April 16: Discuss Shipek 73-90 – allotted land, types of land, Coachella Valley reservations
Mon., April 21: Individual meetings about term paper
Wed., April 23: Individual meetings about term paper
Mon., April 28: Discuss Shipek 90-105 – problem cases
Wed., April 30: Discuss Shipek 106-122 – public domain allotments, terminations, surveys. housing, planning, and income
Mon., May 5: Discuss Shipek 122-135 – economic development, zoning, and water rights
Wed., May 7: Hand in term papers and discuss final exam.
Monday, May 12, 4pm: Final examination (online)
Textbooks. Two books are scheduled for use:
| • | Pushed into the Rocks: Southern California Indian Land Tenure, 1769-1986 by Florence Connally Shipek |
| • | "We Are Not Savages:" Native Americans in Southern California and the Pala Reservation, 1840-1920 by Joel Hyer |
Professor. E.A. Schwartz (PhD Missouri 1991) is an associate professor at Cal State San Marcos and has taught courses in American history, California history, the American frontier, and American Indian history since 1988.
You may contact him through e-mail at schwartz@csusm.edu, and you may call him at 760-744-8363. (This is a message phone only. Do not call if you are not prepared to leave a message.) You may also make an appointment to meet him on campus. His office is in Room 1205 of the administration building and his formal office hours are 10:00 to 11:15 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays.
For additional information, see http://www.csusm.edu/schwartz/
Grading. Grading will be based on a 100-point scale, broken down below:
| Assignment
| % |
| Attendance/Participation
| 40 |
| Term paper synposis
| 4 |
| Mid-term examination
| 16 |
| Term paper
| 24 |
| Final examination
| 16 |
| Total
| 100 |
Your grade will be based on your percentage of possible points. Grade ranges are A 90-100, B 80-89.9, C 70-79.9, D 60-69.9, F 0-59.9.
Incompletes and Grade Changes. An incomplete will not be given unless the alternative is an F and, in the opinion of the professor, based on work completed, the student has a reasonable chance of completing course requirements with a passing grade. An incomplete not finished within one year automatically becomes an F.
Other grades may be changed only if additional work was available to be submitted on time but, because of a technical problem, clerical error, or other problem due the actions of someone other than the student, was not received by deadline. After sixty days, until one year after the original grade was assigned, a signed letter explaining the special circumstances justifying the grade change must be given to the instructor, and the grade change must be approved by the dean of the college of arts and sciences. After one year, grade changes are no longer possible.
The instructor cannot take responsibility for work not received, whatever the reason.