Ethnohistory Field School Schedule  and Readings 2011

 
The following schedule is subject to change.

 

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

In the beginning…

The field school begins at 1:30 pm at the Stó:lõ Resource Centre,  10-7201 Vedder Road, Sardis (Chilliwack).  This building is the only red, 3 story building on the site.  Look for the Welcome Figures to find the door. Those who are able can convene for lunch at Ricky’s Restaurant, 45389 Luckakuck Way Chilliwack, around 12:15.

 

1:30  pm Meeting Stó:lõ staff, including Sonny, Tia and Dave, introductions

3-4 pm Meet with home stay hosts and return with them.

 

Wednesday, April 26th

9 am Longhouse Orientation by Maxine Prevost

10ish-12 Seminar: Ethnohistory and Colonial History

 2nd Floor Boardroom “The Collaboration Room”.

Frederick E. Hoxie, “Ethnohistory for a Tribal World,” Ethnohistory 44:4 (fall 1997)

Keeshig-Tobias, Lenore. “Stop Stealing Native Stories,” in Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation, eds. Bruce Ziff and Pratima V. Rao (New Jersey: Rutgers, 1997) 71-73.

Homi Bhabha, "Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse" 125-133.

Keith Carlson, John Lutz, David Schaepe, "Turning the Page: Ethnohistory from a new Generation"

Emma Tarlo, "Clothing the Political Man" 3-13.

 

Afternoon appointments with faculty and staff about projects.

 

Thurs April 27th

9-12 Seminar: Through Stó:lõ Eyes

Old Pierre “Katzie Book of Genesis” from Diamond Jenness, Faith of A Coast Salish Indian pp 10-34

Frank Malloway, “Through the Eyes of Siyémches te Yeqwyeqwí:ws,” in Carlson ed., You Are Asked to Witness

Sonny McHalsie, “We Have to Take Care of Everything.” From Bruce Miller, ed.  Be of Good Mind.

Sonny McHalsie, et. al. “Making the World Right Through Transformations” (Stó:lõ Atlas, Plate #1)

Sonny McHalsie, “Sxwó:yxwey Origins and Movements” (Stó:lõ Atlas, Plate 3)

 

Friday, April 28th

9:00-12:00 Seminar: Perspective and Memory

Kirin Narayan, “How Native is the Native Anthropologist” American Anthropologist 95, (1993)  675-686.

John Lutz, “Pomo Wawa” from Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal White Relations.

Linda Tuhiwai Smith, “On Tricky Ground: Researching the Native on the Age of Uncertainty”

Elizabeth Loftus, “Tricked by Memory”

Alice Hoffman and Howard Hoffman, “Reliability and Validity in Oral History: The Case for Memory”

 

6 pm Start of People of the River Conference

Stó:lõ Resource Centre.

                               

Saturday April 29th

People of the River Conference at the Stó:lõ Research Centre.

 

Sunday May 1st. 

People of the River Conference Stó:lõ Research Centre.

 

6pm Barbeque for students, Stó:lõ Staff and Home Stay Families at the residence of John and Keith, 168 First Avenue, Cultus Lake.

 

Monday May 2nd

9  Move into Longhouse

9:30-12:00 Seminar: Methodologies

Clifford Geertz, “Thick Descriptions: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture,”  in his Interpretation of Cultures, Selected Essays, (New York: Basic Books, 1973)

Alexander Soucy, “The Problem with Key Informants,” Anthropological Forum, Vol 10 No. 2, 2000

Don Kalb, et al, "Historical Anthropology and Anthropological History: Two Distinct Programs"

Julie Cruikshank, “Oral Tradition and Oral History: Reviewing Some Issues,” Canadian Historical Review, LXXV, 3, (1999), 403-418.

 

Tuesday May 3rd 

9-12 Seminar “Contact Understandings” [or “the John and Keith Show”]

John Lutz, “First Contact as a Spiritual Performance: Aboriginal--Non-Aboriginal Encounters on the North American West,” from John Lutz, ed., Myth and Memory (UBC Press, 2007).

Keith Thor Carlson, “Reflection on Indigenous History and Memory: Reconstructing and Reconsidering Contact,” from Myth and Memory (UBC Press, 2007).

Keith Thor Carlson, “Rethinking Dialogue and History: The King’s Promise and the 1906 Aboriginal Delegation to the London,” (Native Studies Review, June 2005)

 

Afternoon appointments with faculty and staff about projects.

 

Wednesday May 4th

Keith Carlson, The Power of Place, the Problem of Time:  Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism.

 

Afternoon appointments with faculty and staff about projects.

 

Thursday May 5th

Research Prospectus Due

9-12 Seminar-Workshop Oral History and Protocol

Guest Presentation by Sonny McHalsie

Unknown author -- “Unstructured and Semi-structured Interviews”

Alessandro Portelli, “Trying to Gather a Little Knowledge: Some thoughts on the Ethics of Oral History,” The Battle of Valle Giulia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue, (University of Wisconsin) 55-71.

 

Afternoon – meeting with faculty about research prospectus.

 

Friday May 6th

Orientation to Stó:lõ Territory by Boat – Sonny McHalsie

 

Monday May 9th

Orientation to Stó:lõ Territory by Vehicle -- Sonny McHalsie

 

Wednesday May 11th

Team Meeting at 9

Individual Research

5 pm Traditional Food Supper at Longhouse

 

Thursday May 12th –May 20th

Normally a team meeting at 9 followed by individual research (except weekends).

 

Thursday May 19th

5:30 Thank You Feast at Longhouse

 

Friday May 20th

In the end…

Wrap up meeting.

 

June 25th  Papers to be emailed to course conductors.  

 

August 31st  Papers deposited with Stó:lõ Nation Archives