CLASS CANCELED TOMORROW, WED 10/14/08

ABSTRACT--REVISED ASSIGNMENT

THE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS DID NOT UNDERSTAND THIS ASSIGNMENT, AND I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PREDICTING THAT 300 LEVEL STUDENTS ALREADY KNEW HOW TO WRITE AN ABSTRACT. GIVEN THE FACT THAT THIS PREDICTION DID NOT BEAR EXPECTED RESULTS, I AM RE-ASSIGNING THE ABSTRACT ASSIGNMENT. THIS EXERCISE SHOULD NOT TAKE YOU MORE THAN ONE HOUR TO COMPLETE. HOWEVER, PLEASE PREPARE YOURSELF AHEAD OF TIME, BY READING THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA AND GUIDELINES.

ABSTRACT: MID-TERM, NATIVE WOMEN IN TRADITIONAL & CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES
1. HEADER, LEFT HAND CORNER OF PAGE
NAME, I.D., CLASS TITLE, INSTRUCTOR'S NAME

2. TITLE OF TOPIC PROPOSAL (CENTERED)

3. PARAGRAPH:, (1ST-2ND SENTENCES) TOPIC FOCUS, THESIS STATEMENT, QUESTIONS OF CONCERN (FRAMING QUESTIONS)

4. PARAGRAPH: (3RD-4TH SENTENCES) THEORIES TO BE USED AS SUPPORTING STRUCTURES (TO BE DRAWN DIRECTLY FROM ASSIGNED READINGS, FILMS).

5. PARAGRAPH: (FINAL SENTENCE) ILLUMINATE THE READER WITH A MINIMUM OF 3 TEXTS (FROM THE READING LIST) WHICH YOU WILL USE TO BUILD YOUR PRESENTATION.

DUE: FRIDAY, 5P.M., IN MY EMAIL BOX.

--M.TAMEZ
email: nativewomen7tcs@gmail.com

A Few Examples: Links to Native & Indigenous Women -- Canada, U.S., Mexico

ELOISA GARCIA TAMEZ

EMMA TENAYUCA

DIGNA OCHOA

SADIE NEOKOK

Sadie Neokok

"Dr., Lawyer, Indian Chief"

Digna Ochoa

Navajo Women Mine Workers

Elouise Brown, E. Gilmore & Desert Rock

Emma Tenayuca

Indigenous Women's Network

Silvia de Jesus Maya

Mansion Mazahua, A.C. (the Mazahua House Group)

Marianne Lykke Thomsen

Greenland Home Rule (Arctic Council)

Xochitl Galvez

Office of Indigenous Affairs, Mexico

Eloisa G. Tamez

Texas-Mexico Border Wall Crisis

"American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s

American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
by Donna Hightower Langston

Fausto-Sterling: "The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are Not Enough"

"Why Male and Female are Not Enough" , A. Sterling-Fausto

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Important Links! Get Informed!


Review of Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Colonialism and Kanehsatake: Are Disposession and Forced Integration Ongoing?

Kanehsatake: Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

Alanis Obomsawin: Biographical background

Hand-Outs Are In Wilson 10

Remember to pick up the Hand-Out (H.O.) readings for the weekend; They are available this afternoon and all day tomorrow:

"Gender in Inuit Society", Lee Guemple
"Mother as Clanswoman Rank and Gender in Tlingit Society", Laura F. Klein
(From: Women and Power in Native North America, University Oklahoma Press, 1995)

and,

"Gender", from Anne Seren's TransReference site. Hard copy in folder too.

and,

"Introduction", and "Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide," Andrea Smith
(From: Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, South End Press, 2005)