Tribal Americans

The Evergreen Forum

TRIBAL AMERICAN:

A HISTORY OF THE FIRST AMERICANS

FROM THE ICE AGE TO 1900

We will study the culture, society, and everyday lives of various American Indian tribes and see how environmental conditions shaped their way of life and how the interaction of European and tribal culture shaped the new nation. Among the topics to be considered are the great chiefs and the wars from 1680 to 1880.

Course Outline

Class 1: Introduction to the first Americans. The ice age, trail blazers, people of the desert, the mound builders and whale hunters

Class 2: The coming of the Europeans

Class 3: North East Tribes: the Iroquois and lake tribes

Class 4: The Way of the Warrior

Class 5: The Spirit World

Class 7: Western Tribes

Class 8: The people of the desert

Class 9: The way of the woman

Class 10: The Great Chiefs

Leader: Stanley Saperstein, historian and artisan

Wednesday: 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

10 weeks beginning Sept. 26