HIST375 Topics in History
History of the Southwest:  Methods and Materials
Goshen College, May Term 2006
Prof. Jan Bender Shetler

This course offers students the opportunity not only to learn about the regional history of the Southwest, United States, over the past thousand years, but also to explore unconventional historical methods and materials such as archaeology, historical site survey, oral history and ethnographic participant/observation on site.  Students will travel to the Hopi Indian Reservation where they will study Hopi history and culture along with some practice with oral history.  The next week is at Cortez, Colorado where they will do a week of archaeology at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.  The last week students will carry out historical site surveys and study the early Anglo-pioneer and mining period with the Sam Juan County Historical Society in Silverton, CO. 

Emergency Number:  John and Naomi Bender (my parents) 970-882-2190

                                    Cell Phone :  970-739-5559  

Hopi Indian Reservation – http://hopimissionfoundation.org/School/  and http://www.hopi.nsn.us/

Crow Canyon - http://www.crowcanyon.org/Programs/adult_research_program.html

San Juan County Historical Society - http://www.silvertonhistoricalsociety.org/

Mountain Studies Institute http://www.mountainstudies.org/databank/towns/Silverton.asp

Daily Schedule

Wednesday, April 26
10:30 am          Orientation on Campus

Thursday, April 27:  Drive to Newton Kansas
6:00 am            Leave Goshen
8:00 pm            Arrive Newton

Friday, April 28:  Newton and on to Dolores
7:00 am            Breakfast, pack up ready to go
8:00 am            Talk with Jim Juhnke and Bill Zuercher about Mennonites in Hopi
10:00 pm          Leave for Dolores
12:00 am          Arrive Dolores CO, stay with Jan’s parents and their neighbors

Saturday, April 29: Dolores and on to Hopi
9:00 am            Breakfast and relaxing, more orientation, maybe Anasazi Heritage Center
12:00 am          Lunch and leave for Hopi         
6:00 pm            Arrive Hopi, supper at the Welcome Center
7:00 pm            Group Meeting/Reflections and some orientation with Tammy Parker
8:00 pm            Dances in the village if happening and perhaps earlier (?)

Sunday, April 30:  Church and Introductions to Hopi
7:00     Breakfast
9:00     Church at Kykotsmovi and Bacavi Mennonite Churches and others, split up
3:00     Tour of the reservation with Ruby Chimerica
6:00     Supper, Group #3 cooks
            Youth group meeting at the mission, JumpStart (?), Brad Hutchcraft
8:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #1, Supper Group #3

Monday, May 1:  Introduction to Hopi History and Oral History
7:00     Breakfast
8:00     Hopi History – Eric and Jane Polingyouma
12:00   Lunch at the school, rest and reading to the kids at the school
12:45-1:50 and 2:30-3:00         Oral History Project with 6th grade class
6:00     Supper, Group #1 cooks
7:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #2

Tuesday, May 2: The Arts and Oral History
7:00     Breakfast
9:00     Marilyn Sakeva, pottery
12:00   Lunch, rest and reading to the kids at the school
12:45-1:15 and 2:00-3:00         Oral History Project with 6th grade class
6:00     Supper, Group #2 cooks
7:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #3

Wednesday, May 3: the Arts and Old Walpi
7:00     Breakfast
9:00     Basket weaving with Ruby Chimerica and Kachina carving with Keith Torres
11:30   Chapel at the Mission School presentation
12:00   Lunch, rest and reading to the kids at the school
2:00     Service project at the school, others on follow-up to oral history project
4:00     Tour of Old Mesas, Walpi – Marilyn Sakeva
6:00     Supper, Group #3 cooks
7:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #1

Thursday, May 4: Current Issues and Archaeology
7:00     Breakfast
8:00     Current Issues/Tribal Administration – Danny Honanie and Marvin Yoyokie,     Kykotsmovi Village
12:00   Lunch, rest and reading to the kids at the school
2:00     Dawa park with Eric and Jane Polingyouma
6:00     Supper, Group #1 cooks
7:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #2

Friday, May 5: Leave for Canyonlands
7:00     Breakfast
8:00     Clean up and pack up
9:00     Goodbyes and Depart for Canyonlands
            Canyonlands camp-out

Saturday, May 6: Canyonlands and Crow Canyon
8:00     Canyonlands and back to Dolores
4:00     Check-in to Crow Canyon
5:30     Supper
7:00     Introductions to Crow Canyon
            Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #3

Sunday, May 7: Inquiries, Site Tour, and Intro to Research in the evening
7:30     Breakfast (Same each day at Crow Canyon)
8:30     Inquiries in to the Past
12:00   Lunch (Same each day at Crow Canyon)
1:00     Site Tour – Goodman Point Pueblo
4:30     Journal time
5:30     Dinner (Same each day at Crow Canyon)
6:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #1
6:30     Introduction to Research at Crow Canyon – Seminar Room

Monday, May 8: Laboratory
7:30     Breakfast
8:30     Research Lab
12:00   Lunch on site
1:00     Research Lab
4:30     Journal time and Dinner
6:30     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #2

Tuesday, May 9: Excavation
7:30     Breakfast
8:30     Excavation – Goodman Point
12:00   Lunch
1:30     Excavation – Goodman Point
4:30     Journal time
5:30     Supper
6:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #3
6:30     Evening Program

Wednesday, May 10:
8:30     Lifestyles on campus and Heritage Center
12:00  lunch
1:30     Hovenweep tour
4:30     Journal time
5:30     Supper
6:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #1

Thursday, May 11: Mesa Verde Tour
8:30     Mesa Verde all day, picnic lunch
5:30     Supper
6:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #2
6:30     Wrap up with Crow Canyon staff

Friday, May 12: Depart and trip to Chaco Canyon/or Dove Creek/Tribal Park
8:30     Check-out of Crow Canyon after breakfast Saturday, clean up Hogans
10:00   Wash and groceries in Cortez, lunch in Cortez or on the way
Overnight camping at Chaco Canyon/or Dove Creek/Tribal Park

Saturday, May 13: Return from Chaco Canyon and head to Silverton
12:00   Lunch in Durango
4:00     Arrivals: Welcome to MSI and check into Avon Hotel
4:30     Walking tour of Silverton (Koren Nydick, from MSI)
5:00     Overview of Silverton Environment & Culture (Koren Nydick @MSI)
5:30     Overview of Silverton History (Bev Rich or Chris Machino @ MSI)
6:00     Welcome Dinner @ Pickle Barrel
7:00     Group Meeting/Reflections Group #3
Sunday, May 14: Silverton
8:00     Breakfast
9:00     Silverton Historical Museum tour (with Bev Rich@museum)
10:00   Silverton Historical Archives Introduction (with Bev Rich @ Museum)
11:00   Cemetery Tour with Freda Peterson (meet @ Museum)
12:00   Lunch
1:00     Natural History /Animas River Walk (Koren Nydick, others?, from MSI)
4:00    Animas Watershed:  Mining Impacts & Remediation (Bill Simon? @ MSI)
5:00     Intro to Animas River Oral & Ecological History Project (Marcie? @ MSI)
6:00     Dinner, Group #2 cooks
7:00     Abandoned Mine Lands Remediation (BLM video @ MSI)
            Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #1

Monday, May 15: Silverton
7:30     Breakfast
9:00     Museum Service Project (Bev Rich @ museum)
12:00   Lunch
1:00     Animas River Oral & Ecological History Project (Marcie? @MSI)
6:00     Dinner, Group #3 cooks
7:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #2,

Tuesday, May 16: Silverton
8:00     Breakfast
9:00     Eureka Field excursion w/ Scott Fetchenhier: basic geology, prospecting, and    mining history (Meet @ MSI)
12:00   Lunch
1:00     Animas River Oral & Ecological History Project (Marcie? @MSI)
5:00     Journal time
6:00     Dinner, Group #1 cooks
7:00     Boarding house restoration video (@MSI)
            Group Meeting/Reflections – Group #3,

Wednesday, May 17: Silverton
8:00     Breakfast
8:40     Meet @MSI to drive to field trip (bring lunch)
GROUP 1
9-10:30            Mayflower Mill/HAER Tour (w/ Jerry Hoffer and/or David Singer)
10:45 – 12:15   Mill Office Service Project?
GROUP 2
9 – 10:30         Mill Office Service Project?
10:45-12:15     Mayflower Mill/HAER Tour (w/ Jerry Hoffer and/or David Singer)
12:00               Lunch
12:30-3:00       Animas Forks Field Excursion:  Preservation and Stabilization
                        (w/Bev Rich)
3:30     Finish Project:  Animas River Oral & Ecological History (Marcie? @MSI)
6:30     Dinner, Group #2 cooks
7:00     Group Meeting/Reflections – everyone

Thursday, May 18: Leave for home, drive straight through
Leave for Goshen.  Everyone help to clean up before taking off!

Friday, May 19 or Saturday, May 20:  Arrive back in Goshen
                 

Books to purchase and take along

Harold Courlander, The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians As Preserved in Their Legends and Traditions (University of New Mexico Press; Reprint edition, 1987)
Stephen Plog, Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest (London: Thames and Hudson, 1997)
Beth and Bill Sagstetter, The Mining Camps Speak:  A New Way to Explore the Ghost Towns of the American West, BenchMark Publishing of Colorado, 1998.

Two Composition Book journals, to exchange with me alternately

Focus Questions

1. Environment and Economy : 
1. How have people made a living on this dry and marginal environment over time and how has that shaped the societies and cultures that developed here? 
2. Examples of environmental issues: Overuse of the land, extraction industries, new technologies, conservation, climate change, water sources and problems, population shifts, tourism, carrying capacity, etc.
3. Examples of economy: hunter-gatherer, farmer, mining, “service industry”, ranching, tourism, welfare, pottery and basket making, railroads.
2. Politics: 
1. How have these societies related to larger, often distant, political structures and how did that effect power relations and interest group relations within these communities?
2. Examples: Chaco Canyon, US and local government, BIA, Tribal Council, class interests, gender issues.
3. Methods:
1. What can a particular historical method teach us about the past and how does the way we learn influence what we learn?
2. Examples:  Archaeology, Historical Site Surveys, Museums-Archives, Participant-Observation, Oral History, Service-Learning.

Evaluation

1. Participation/Cooperation – up to half of your grade
1. Engaged participation in all planned events
2. Participation in and planning group reflection times
3. Cooperation with the group outside of "class"
1. cooking/dishwashing/cleaning/grocery shopping
2. cars/planning/recreation
3. following the rules
4. Getting along, building community
2. Journals (collected every couple of days, alternating journals)
1. Reading Notes
1. from the three required books
2. from other reading that interests you
3. try to do about an hour of reading each day
2. Field Notes
1. notes from speakers, exercises during class
2. other relevant notes during the day
3. Personal Reflections
1. reflections on what you are learning about the past
2. reflections on how we learn about the past
3. observations about the world around you, people/landscape/events
4. Focus Question Essays
1. essay on each of the three focus questions for each of the three sites that we will visit (9 total).  Alternately you could write a little about each of the questions each time you journal.
2. these should be marked as such in the journals, they do not have to be long but should synthesize much of our learning from this site. 
3. try to spend about an hour each day in journaling or writing these essays
4. in order to cover each of the four questions you will have to start the essays the second day that we are at the site.  The last site you will not have time to cover all three, try to do at least two. 

Other Logistical Issues

All students must submit the following documents to the professor of the May term class. No student will be permitted to be part of a class without completing these forms.
            Consent form for emergency medical treatment.
            Parental consent for students under 21
            Proof of insurance, including evacuation and repatriation insurance
            Contract with professor

List of things to bring along

sleeping bag and pillow
towel
pad for when we sleep on the ground or a hard floor inside
sun hat and sunglasses
sunscreen and insect repellent
water bottles, x2
cup, plate, bowl, silverware
warm clothes, ie layers
rain gear
flashlight
2 journals – in the bookstore
required books – in the bookstore
one decent set of clothes
mostly we will be in outdoor/work clothes, jeans, tee shirts (tank tops not recommended)
walking/hiking shoes
for every 4 students a tent or a ground cloth
PACK LIGHT – not more than carry-on or backpack size plus book bag and sleeping bag

Students

Burgunder-Johnson Dominique                                     Ditzler, Daniel
Hershberger,  Lisl                                                         Ditzler,  Israel
Hopper,  Michelle                                                         Esch,  Andrew
Langeland,  Hope                                                         Friesen, Neal
Martin, Mary                                                                Johnson, Jesse
Mayhew, Hilary                                                            Smith, Jesse
Miller, Allison                                                               Weaver, Joshua
Miller, Elizabeth                                                            Wyse, Layne
Parrish, Miranda
Penner, Anne

Group #1                                             Group #2                                             Group #3
Hopper, Michelle                      Parrish, Miranda                                   Miller, Allison
Martin, Mary                            Burgunder-Johnson, Dominique            Hershberger, Lisl
Mayhew, Hilary                        Penner, Anne                                        Miller, Elizabeth
Ditzler, Daniel                           Langeland, Hope                                  Ditzler, Israel
Esch, Andrew                           Smith,  Jesse                                         Friesen, Neal 
Weaver, Joshua                        Wyse, Layne                                        Johnson, Jesse 
             
Each evening one group will prepare supper, one will clean up and the other will lead group reflections.