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Dr. Birgit Hans has been a member of the Indian Studies department at UND since 1991. Her specialty is American Indian literature and oral traditions, but she also teaches writing and history courses and has an interest in popular literature. As a former German citizen, she is interested in European perceptions of American Indian cultures.
Dr. Hans has published extensively on D'Arcy McNickle, including a collection of his unpublished short stories, called The Hawk is Hungry. Other publications include papers in Studies in American Indian Literatures, the North Dakota Quarterly, and Studies in the Western, as well as various edited collections.
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Powwow Culture --
Native American Performance, Identity, and Meaning
Tuesday January 3 - Saturday January 7, 2006
University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK
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The intent of the course is to introduce students to the multi-faceted nature of powwows, i.e. their political, cultural, and social importance from their emergence in the 19 th century to contemporary times. At the same time, it will also raise awareness of the powwow’s importance in negotiating cultural identity during times of social and cultural upheavals. Among others we will discuss giveaways, Forty-Niners, rituals, American Indian communities and the challenges they face in the 21 st century, identity issues, traditional knowledge, and powwows as tourist attractions. On the practical side, this course will also serve as an introduction to northern and southern style powwows.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
* The Business of Fancydancing. Sherman Alexie.Hanging Loose Press, 1992
* Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow.Tara Browner. University of Illinois, 2002
* A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains.Clyde Ellis.University Press of Kansas, 2003
* Powwow.Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter, and Gary H. Dunham, eds. University of Nebraska Press, 2005
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