Tribes and the Legal Tribe: Historical Roots of Some

Contemporary American Indian Issues

This is to announce a summer session II American Indian-related course
that was added after summer registration began.

ANTH A200 / Tribes and the Legal Tribe: Historical Roots of Some
Contemporary American Indian Issues
Summer Session II
Time: 2:30-3:55 PM TWR

OBJECTIVES
1) Appreciate the ways in which legal history—even relatively ancient
legal history—affects the contemporary reality of many American Indians
today, using tools from anthropology, history, and law.
2) Understand that American Indians continue to exist, as individuals
and as nations.
3) Realize some of the diversity of American Indian national cultures.
4) Become aware of the complexity of actors in American Indian issues.
5) Develop knowledge of anthropological and interdisciplinary
approaches to problems.
6) Explore gender-related disparate impacts of law in American
Indian contexts.
7) Begin to understand some central themes of legal anthropology: that
all societies have law, but the processes for creating and
institutionalizing law vary widely; that multiple legal systems can
co-exist, particularly in colonial settings, and interact in
complicated ways; and that the long-term impacts of laws are not
necessarily anticipated by lawmakers or others who participate in legal
processes.

This is a 200-level course, so our goal is to develop an overall
picture, not to become experts. We will use a variety of teaching and
learning methods in this course, including fictional and nonfictional
films, in-class debates, and discussion (which in past incarnations of
this course has been very lively).

Texts:
--Required text: Jo Carillo, ed., _Readings in American Indian Law:
Recalling the Rhythm of Survival_
--Other readings on e-reserve.