TUESDAY THURSDAY 1 31  Introduction 2   MLA Handbook • Diagnostic Essay 2 7  Writing & Textual Analysis: Fiction 9  Ceremony to 106feather/116face (Notes 1) •  Lakota Woman (video) 3 14  Ceremony to 200feather/215face (Notes 2) 16  Mary Crow Dog Visit •  Ceremony to 243feather/262face (Notes 3) 4 21  Ceremony Essays (Notes 4) • Fiction Download, print, & read these essay: • "The Function of the Landscape" • "Native North America: The Political Economy of Radioactive Colonialism" 23  Gunn Allen (Notes 5) • "Kochinnenako in Academe" 222 • "Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony" (download) 5 28  Gunn Allen (Notes 6) • "The Sacred Hoop" 54-75 • "Feminine Landscape" 118-26 • "Ceremonial Motion of Indian Time" 147-54 30  Ceremony & Fiction Conclusions 6 5  Paper 1 Due: FICTION • Harjo • Poetry Intro • Harjo Intro (No Reading Assignment) 7  Harjo Poems & Essays • (Notes 7) • Harjo Poems beginning on pp. 38, 65, 67, 70, 85, 104, 106, 123, 149, 167, 184 • Gunn Allen, "Answering the Deer" 155-64 • Gunn Allen, "This Wilderness in My Blood" 165-83 7 12  White Privilege/White Power 14  Smoke Signals (video) 8 19  The Business of Fancy Dancing (video) 21  Smoke Signals & Drama (Bring Smoke Signals text to class!) 9 26  Alexie Essay 1; Essay 2 (Notes 8) 28     Ortiz 145, 201, 237, 318, 326, "That's the Place" • For In-class: Lyric (Stanzas • Epiphany 1 • Epiphany 2) 10 2  "That's the Place" discussion & prewriting (Notes 9) 4  OPTIONAL Paper Due: ALEXIE • Ortiz 337-63 • Final Paper Review F I N A L 8  Final Paper Due 2:30 P.M.

Note: Additional background readings will be added as the quarter continues.