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HIS-3005: Introduction to the History of Indigenous Peoples: Colonisation and Revival

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History of Indigenous Peoples: Colonization and Revival


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Titles marked with ● are available in compendia. Some copies of Indigenous Peoples and Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation will be found in the university library or you may purchase it at the university bookstore.

Who? When? How? – the historiography (148)

· Benedict Kingsbury, "'Indigenous Peoples' in International Law: A Constructivist Approach to the Asian Controversy", in American Journal of International Law, 1998:3, pp. 414-457 (43)
· Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, London-New York: Verso, 1991 [1983], pp. 5-7 ("Concepts and Definitions"; p. 36 (summery of chap. 2) and pp. 35-46 (chap. 3: "The Origin of National Consciousness" (13)
· Toby Morantz, "The Past and the Future of Ethnohistory", in Acta Borealia, 1998:1, pp. 59-77 (18)
· Linda Tuhiwai Smith: Decolonizing Methodologies, Zed Books Ltd 1999, pp. 19-41 (Chapter 1, “Imperialism, History, Writing and Theory”) (22)
· Anna Haebich, “The Battlefields of Aboriginal History”, in Martyn Lyons and Penny Russell, Australia’s History: Themes & Debates, UNSW Press 2005, pp. 1-21 (20)

Source materials:

· Henry Reynolds: Why Weren’t We Told? Sidney: Penguin Books 1999, pp. 81-98 (chap. VII, “Teaching and Learning – about Race”); 153-168 (chap. XI, “Arguing about Invasion”7 (32)


Colonization I: Discovery or invasion? (76)

· Tsvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America, HarperPerennial 1992, pp. 34-50 (chapters “Columbus and the Indians”) (24)
· Ronald Wright, Stolen Continents: The "New World" Through Indian Eyes, Penguin 1993 [1992], pp. 3-14 ("Prologue: Discovery") and pp. 83 (chap. 3, "Inca") (+ notes) (30)
· Henry Reynolds, "New Frontiers: Australia", in Paul Haveman (ed.): Indigenous Peoples Rights, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 129-141 (22)
· Henry Reynolds: Why Weren’t We Told? op.cit.

Colonization II: Common and different experiences (96)

· Ken Coates, "The 'Gentle' Occupation'", in Paul Haveman (ed.): Indigenous Peoples Rights, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp.141-162 (21)
· Jürgen Kocka, "The Use of Comparative History", in Ragnar Björk & Karl Molin (eds.), Societies made up of history, Edsbruk 1996, pp. 197-209 (12)
· Veli-Pekka Lehtola, "The Sami siida and the Nordic states from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 1900s", in Kristina Karppi & Johan Eriksson (eds.), Conflict and Cooperation in the North, Umeå, 2000, pp. 183-194 (11)
· Toby Morantz, "The Past and the Future of Ethnohistory", op.cit.
· Henry Reynolds, "New Frontiers: Australia", in Paul Haveman (ed.): Indigenous Peoples Rights, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 129-141 (22)
· Ronald Wright, Stolen Continents: The "New World" Through Indian Eyes, Penguin 1993 [1992], pp. 3-14 ("Prologue: Discovery") and pp. 83 (chap. 3, "Inca") (+ notes) (30)


Colonization III: Changing land rights regimes (76)

· Tsvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America, op.cit., pp. 151-177, excerpts from chapters “Equality or Inequality” and “Enslavement, Colonialism, and Communication” (the controversy at Valladolid in 1550 between Sepúlveda and Las Casas) (24)
· Vine Deloria, Jr., Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: An Indian Declaration of Independence, New York: Delacorte Press, 1974, pp. 85-111 (chap. 5 "The Doctrine of Discovery") (25)
· Coates, "The 'Gentle' Occupation'", op.cit.
· Reynolds, "New Frontiers: Australia", op.cit
· Magnus Mörner, "The Land Rights of the Sami and the Indians – A Historical Comparison in the Supreme Court", in Birgitta Jahreskog (ed.): The Sami National Minority in Sweden, Stockholm 1982, pp. 36-61 (25)

Source materials:
· Johnson v. McIntosh (1823) and Worcester v. Georgia (1833), published in abstract in Deloria, Jr., op.cit. pp. 99-102 and pp. 103-105.


The period of assimilation (72)

· John H. Bodley: Victims of Progress, Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1990, pp. 94-105 (extract of chap. 6, "Cultural Modification Politics"(11)
· Brooke Larson, “Andean highland peasants and the trials of nation making during the nineteenth century”, in The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol III (South America), part 2, chapter 23, pp. 558-572 (14)
Andrew Armitage, Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Vancouver: UBC Press, 1995, pp. 185-219 (chapter “Similarities and Differences among Australia, Canada and New Zealand”), pp. 220- 242 (chap. 9: "Understanding the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation") (+ notes) (22)
· Henry Minde, "Assimilation of the Sami – Implementation and Consequences", in Acta Borealia, 2003:2, pp.121-146 (25)
· Jürgen Kocka, "The Use of Comparative History", op.cit.

Source materials:
· Extracts of interviews, printed in Minde "Assimilation of the Sami", op.cit.
Interviews in Bringing them home (video), op.cit.


Revival I: The struggle for land rights and self-determination (146)

· John H. Bodley, op.cit. pp. 152-178 (chap. 9, “The Self-Determination Revival”) (26)
· Troy R. Johnson, "Roots of Contemporary Native American Activism", in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 20:2 (1996), pp. 127- 154 (28)
· Peter H. Russell, “Colonization of Indigenous Peoples: The Movement toward New Relationships”, in Margaret MacMillan and Francine McKenzie, Parties Long Estranged: Canada and Australia in the Twentieth Century, UBCPress 2003, 62-95 (32)
· Rachel Sieder, "Recognising Indigenous Law and the Politics of State Formation in Mesoamerica", in Rachel Sieder (ed), Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy, Palgrave Macmilan, 2002, pp. 184-207 (23)
Henry Minde, "The Challenge of Indigenism: The Struggle for Sami Rights in Norway 1960-1990", in Svein Jentoft (et al, eds.): Indigenous Peoples: Resource Management and Global Rights, Delft: Eburon Delft, 2003, pp.75-104 (29)

Source materials:
· "Mabo" and others v. Queensland (1992), printed in Richard H. Barlett, The Mabo Decision, Sidney: Butterworths 1993, (from the vote of J. Brennan:) pp. 26-30 ("The basis of the theory of universal and absolute Crown ownership") 42-45 ("The nature and incidents of native title") (8)

Revival II: A human right issue (109)

· Jöelle Rostkowski, "The Redman's Appeal for Justice: Deskaheh and the League of Nations", in Christian F. Fest (ed.): Indians & Europe, Lincoln and London, 1989, pp. 435-453 (18)
· Kingsbury, "’Indigenous Peoples' in International Law". op.cit.
· Russel Lawrence Barsh, "Indigenous Peoples in the1990s: From Object to Subject of International Law?" Harvard Human Rights Journal, 1994:2, pp. 33-86 (51)
· Alison Brysk, “Turning Weakness Into Strenght: The Internationalization of Indian Rights”, in Latin American Perspective, vol. 23, no. 2 (1996), pp. 38-57 (16)
Peter Jull, "The Politics of Sustainable Development", in Svein Jentoft (et al., eds.): Indigenous Peoples: Resource Management and Global Rights, Delft: Eburon Delft, 2003 pp. 21-45 (24)
Henry Minde, "The Challenge of Indigenism: The Struggle for Sami Rights in Norway 1960-1990", op.cit.


Post-colonial alternatives and summing up the course (49)

· Teiaiake Alfred, Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 41-46 and pp. 70-71, and 73-88 (extract of chap. "Power") (22)
· Russel Lawrence Barsh, "Indigenous Peoples in the1990s", op.cit.
· (Alan Cairns and Tom Flanagan), "Flanagan vs. Cairns on Aboriginal policy", Policy Options Politiques, 2001 (September), pp. 43-53 (10)
Henry Minde and Ragnar Nilsen, "Conclusion", in Svein Jentoft (et al, eds.), Indigenous Peoples: Resource Management and Global Rights, Delft: Eburon Delft, 2003, pp. 297-309 (12)

Source materials:

· (El Hadji Guissé), "Review of developments pertaining to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedom of indigenous people: Principal theme: "Indigenous peoples and globalization"", Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Indigenous Populations, Twenty-first session, 21-25 July 2003, E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.4/2003/14 (5)

Total 696 pages