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WEEK 1 DAY 2 Discovery and Origin Myths
WEEK 1 DAY 2 Discovery and Origin Myths
INDIGENOUS
AMERICA:
“Discovery” and
Origin Myths
TODAY’S MUSIC BY Apsaalooke Hip-
Hop Artist, Supaman.
The Apsaalooke are from Southern
Montana.
KEY TERMS
*Indigenous
*Origin Stories
*Three Sisters
*Transition to Agriculture
*Native American Slavery
*Puebloan People
*Chaco Canyon
*Kiva
*Cahokia
Textbook and Reading
• Your Textbook is Free Online =
AmericanYawp.com
• For Sections this week, please
read “Native American Creation
Stories” in Chapter One, Primary
Sources.
• The Syllabus is up and Available
in Blackboard.
Section Meetings
• Y25 (TH 830) Nathalia (HUMCB 503)
• Y26 (TH 830) Matt (ROTC 201)
• Y27 (TH 425) Nathalia (GAMB 129)
• Y28 (TH 425) Eliz (HUMCB 301)
• Y29 (TH 600) Eliz (GAMB 129)
• Y30 (TH 600) Nathalia (CLHIPP 335)
• Y31 (F 830) Matt (ROTC 201)
• Y32 (F 830) Dylan (HUMCB 503)
• Y33 (F 940) Dylan (COL 2006)
• Y34 (F940) Matt (PETIGR 212)
• Y35 (F 550) Eliz (HUMCB 401)
• Y36 (F 550) Dylan (PETIGR 213)
COLUMBUS MYTHS
• Columbus Discovered America. How
can you discover something
inhabited by millions of people?
• Columbus landed in the present-day
United States. He landed first in the
Bahamas and made four trips to the
Caribbean and South America which
he thought were the East Indies.
• Columbus Proved the World was
Round. Educated people since, at
least, Aristotle understood the world
was round.
NATIVE AMERICANS BEFORE
EUROPEAN CONTACT
CITY
DWELLERS