AIS 101 Writing Assignment #3 Spring 2023 (1)
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Applied Indigenous Studies 101 Online
Spring Semester 2023
Dr. Pynes
Study Questions and Writing Topics for Assignment #3
1.
According to the film (do not do your own research), who are the Pueblo people of New Mexico and Arizona? What are some of the most important characteristics of a distinctly
Pueblo culture?
2.
From a Pueblo point-of-view, what is beautiful? Why do you think that the film includes many slow motion scenes and that the narrators often speak so softly, as if they are whispering? How are these and other specific details in the film revealing of what the Pueblo people consider to be beautiful?
3.
According to the film, why did the Spanish come into (invade) the Pueblo world? What were the Spanish seeking? How did their desires change through time, to the extent that they decided to stay and settle in what later became known as “New Mexico”? 4.
Based upon the film, how would you describe contemporary Pueblo peoples’ relationship to the Catholic Church and Christianity? Is this a kind of love mixed with revulsion? Why might this relationship be so passionate and yet ambivalent?
5.
Who’s telling the story of the Pueblo people? How and why are these narrators or storytellers important to our understanding of who the Pueblo people really
are?
6.
Are American Indian people the only people who should tell their own story, or is there also a role for non-Indians to play in this process? Explain.
7.
Is this documentary a piece of biased, anti-Spanish Pueblo propaganda? Why or why not?
8.
According to the film, how did the Pueblo people go about “Surviving Columbus”?
Why is it important that the story of their survival continue to be acknowledged and celebrated today?
9.
What did you learn from this film that you did not already know? (For example, that the first “white man” to actually encounter the Pueblos at Zuni was a black man from Morroco named Estevanico). Did the film change your understanding of Pueblo people and American Indians in general? Explain.
10. This film was made about thirty years ago, in rhythm with the 500
th
anniversary of Columbus blundering into the Caribbean, thinking that he was in China or India. How is
today’s world in 2023 similar or related to the contemporary world that is depicted in the film (the early 1990s), and to the historical world that the film depicts, like the Pueblo Revolt of 1680? For example, are wars still being fought in Europe “without quarter”?
11. Why did the Spanish and other Europeans believe that they had an inherent and God-
given right to claim any “unoccupied” lands in the “New World” as their own? How is the Spanish/European relationship to land radically different from the Pueblos’ relationship?
12. What accounts for this radical cultural difference in regards to the land? Are the Indians made of “red earth,” while the Europeans are made from “white sand”? Why the profound difference?
Instructions: Assignment #3 is focused entirely upon the documentary
Surviving Columbus: The
Story of the Pueblo People
. Consider all of the twelve questions below as you read and write about this film. However, you may choose only one of these questions as your topic
(prompt) for Assignment # 3.
Your assignment should be 275-325 words long. Your assignment will lose points if it is too long or too short. Aim for about 300 words. Your assignment should be typed and double-spaced, using Times/New Roman 12 pt. typeface
. A Word document
is preferable. This format makes it easier for me to grade and to write comments upon.
Make sure that you state your topic question verbatim at the top of your assignment, so that the reader knows for sure which one of the several topics that you are responding to. You will lose points if you fail to do this as a courtesy to the reader. The topic question itself does not count in terms of your assignment’s word count.
Turn in Assignment #3 in by no later than 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 14, via BBLEARN assignment drop box. No late submissions will be accepted.
For Group #3, Assignment #3 is a major
graded assignment. Your mini-essay will receive both a number (0-100) and a letter (B, etc.) grade, along with detailed written comments and feedback
from the instructor.
For the other three groups, Writing Assignment #3 does count
, but as a minor graded assignment within the category of averaged minor assignments. Your effort will earn a grade of credit (95 points); partial credit (60 points); or no credit (zero points), and it will likely receive no written comments or feedback from the instructor. Partial credit is automatic if your assignment is too long or too short. No credit is automatic if you do not submit your assignment by the official deadline. Credit is automatic if your mini-
essay fulfills the assignment and is submitted prior to the official deadline. Questions? Write me
an e-mail. Saluda, Dr. P
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