Course Information
2008 Spring Workshop
We met at the Lake Quinault Lodge for our spring workshop exploring the connection to Native Americans and the environment. Our course participants also continued to develop their projects.
Friday, May 9
Resources
Additional information about Aldo Leopold and "The Land Ethic:"
The University of Wisconsin has digitized Leopold's personal records in The Aldo Leopold Archives.
The Aldo Leopold Foundation was founded by Leopold's children to extend his legacy.
The Leopold Education Project supports interdisciplinary curricula based on "The Land Ethic."
Discussion
World population tables from the US Census Bureau.
Duffin, Andrew P. Plowed Under: Agriculture & Environment in the Palouse. University of Washington Press, 2007.
Ethical considerations in relations to "The Land Ethic."
1) Chet Bowers writings on education and ecojustice - particularly individualism.
2) Definition of anthroprocentrism.
3) Progress.
Definition of biotic community from Biology Online.
Sustainability
Washington's Education for Environment and Sustainability.
Dr. Zoltan Grossman's Presentation
PowerPoint Presentation available from his website.
Washington History Museum's online exhibition Leschi: Justice in Our Time includes a timeline of the Indian Wars 1855-1856.
As Long as the Rivers Run (1971) film about the Native American civil rights movement.
Books
William Cronon's Changes in the Land. More accessible to high school students.
Charles Mann's book 1491.
Alexandra Harmon's Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identies around Puget Sound.
Charles F. Wilkinson's Messages from Franks Landing is very accessible and focuses on the Nisqually.
James Clifford's book The Predictament of Culture outlines the trial of the Mashpee tribe in Cape Cod.
Paige Raibmon's Authentic Indians.
Full Text of Documents
Land allotment from the Dawes Act 1887 through the 1920s.
Full text of the Point Elliott Treay (1855), Medicine Creek Treaty (1854), Point No Point Treaty (1855), Quinault Treaty (1856), Treaty of Neah Bay (1855), and the Treaty with the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla (1855).
Northwest Treaty Cases - 1905 - 1963
U.S. v. Winans (1905)
Tulee Case (1942)
Maison v. Umatilla (1963)
Washington v. McCoy (1963)
Boldt Decision (1974)
Saturday, May 10
Jennifer Scott's Presentation on the Quinault Tribe
U.S. v. Mitchell (1980) - about the control of land allotments on the reservation
Charles C. Willoughby's Indians of the Quinault Agency (1886) - not in print, but can find some of his reports from University of Washington's Digital Collection American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection by searching for "willoughby."
Nuytten, Phil. "Money from the Sea." National Geographic 183, no. 1 (1993).
Pauline K. Copoeman's Land of the Quinault.
Evergreen's Enduring Legacies Native Cases project has a case study on the Quinault Nation and forestry.
