This schedule provides details of which readings and assignments you need to complete each week.  Some points to note about this schedule:

• This calendar is tentative and I reserve the right to make changes to it as I deem necessary.

• All reading assignments can be found in the following sources:
  -Jay Miller, ed., Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990)
  -Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984)
  -Specific history-related websites that I have provided links to on the weekly schedule below.  Students must print out and bring to class the web readings that are assigned for each week.

• Material in the readings that is not covered during class meetings may still appear on quizzes and exams, so make sure you read all that has been assigned.  While not required, for those students who want a textbook for the class I recommend Carlos Schwantes, The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretative History (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1996).  All of the books are available in the North Seattle Community College bookstore.

• Reading assignments should be completed by the Wednesday of each week.

• I highly recommend that you make notes as you complete the readings.  These will be very useful when it comes to completing the quizzes and preparing for exams.

• As you read for class, you should think critically about the information being presented to you.  By this I mean that you should be skeptical about what the authors have to say.  Read these useful guidelines, which you should bear in mind as you complete the readings and examine evidence over the course of the quarter.
   
• I will assume that you have completed all of the assigned readings for the class on time each week. I will expect that you will use this material in completing papers, exams and assignments and will grade your work accordingly. 
  
  This schedule is subject to change.  Students are responsible for checking the website every week to ensure they are following the correct reading assignments.

Week 1:  June 29-July 3

Course introduction, syllabus, expectations
What is the Pacific Northwest?  The Native Northwest prior to contact with Euro Americans.  Early contacts with Euro Americans.

Reading (complete for Wednesday):

• Primary v. Secondary Sources; 

• Reading for History;

• “Dividing a Beached Whale”;

• “Clatsop Potlatch"; (Both "Dividing a Beached Whale" and "Clatsop Potatch" are Native American histories recorded by European Anthropologist Franz Boas in the late 1800s)

• George Vancouver's account of Puget Sound (Vancouver and his crew were the first Europeans to visit Puget Sound).  Click HERE for a list of questions to guide you in your reading of Vancouver's account  - Please print out and bring all of these readings to class

Key Terms:
Northwest Coast Culture, Plateau Culture, Potlatch, The Dalles, Nootka Sound, Virgin Soil Epidemics, Sea otters, Maritime fur trade, George Vancouver, Robert Gray 

Remember, you need to complete the week 1 homework (available in WebCT) by midnight on Friday, July 3

Week 2:  July 6-10

The fur trade, global capitalism, empires and the mixed world, arrival of white settlers

Reading:

• George Simpson and the Hudson's Bay Company; (Simpson was a senior official with the Hudson's Bay Company.  He visited the Northwest in 1824-25 to inspect the company's operations in the region)  

• Narcissa Whitman's letters (Along with her husband Marcus, Narcissa Whitman was one of the first Christian missionaries to settle in the Northwest near what is today Walla Walla.  She regularly wrote letters back to her family describing life in the Northwest, the Native Americans she encountered, etc.)

• Emigrants' Guide to California and Oregon;

• Start reading Mourning Dove

Key Terms:
George Simpson, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Hudson's Bay Company,  "Mixed World," "fur desert," Manifest Destiny, Oregon Trail, Narcissa and Marcus Whitman, "54° 40' or fight!", Joint occupation, Oregon Treaty

Complete Week 2 homework by midnight on Friday, July 10.

Week 3:  July 13-17

New political and social boundaries, Indian policy and reservations, economic change

Reading:

• Mourning Dove, Introduction & pages 3-69

• Mourning Dove paper assignment and guidelines - due Friday July 24

Key Terms:
Isaac Stevens, Indian Treaties, Reservations, Donation Land Act, Treaty of Medicine Creek, Indian Boarding Schools

Complete Week 3 homework by midnight on Friday, July 17

Week 4:  July 20-24

Economic change, anti-Chinese hostility, beginning of reform, Populism

The review for the midterm exam is now available

Reading:

• Mourning Dove, 99-187

• In the matter of the application of Fong Wong for admission to the United States

• Guide to inserting footnotes in a Word 2007 document (requires audio be turned on)

• Guide to inserting footnotes in earlier versions of Word

Key Terms:
Chinese Exclusion Act, "Tacoma Method," steam donkey, cargo mill, Nihonmachi

Mourning Dove paper due by midnight on Friday, July 24

Week 5:  July 27-31

Reforming the region - the Progressive-era Northwest, urban growth, AYP

Reading:

• H.H. (Helen Hunt Jackson), "Puget Sound";

• Abigail Scott Duniway, Path-Breaking

Key Terms:
Conservation, boosterism, Helen Hunt Jackson, Abigail Scott Duniway, Klondike Gold Rush, Northern Pacific Railroad, William S. U'ren, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Puget Sound Navy Yard, Civic Housekeeping, Hiram Gill, Seattle City Light, R.H. Thomson, Lake Washington Ship Canal, John Charles Olmsted, Wobblies

Midterm Exam on Thursday, July 30.  Exam Review

Instead of a written homework assignment this week we will have a field trip to the University of Washington campus to look at the site of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition.  We will meet at the UW on Friday, July 31 at 9am.  Students who attend will receive credit for this week's homework.  Those students who cannot make the field trip will be able to complete a written assignment on the readings for this week instead.

Week 6:  August 3-7

World War I, labor radicalism, Depression and New Deal

Reading:

• Sone, Nisei Daughter, 1-144  

• Questions to guide your reading of the book

Key Terms:
General Strike, Anna Louise Strong, Bonneville Dam, Grand Coulee Dam, Hooverville, "Indian New Deal," Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, Hydro

Complete Week 6 homework by midnight on Friday, August 7

Week 7:  August 10-14

World War II, Cold War and the transformation of the region

Reading:

• Sone, Nisei Daughter, 145-238;

• Richard S. Kirkendall, "The Boeing Company and the Military-Metropolitan-Industrial Complex, 1945-1953"

Key Terms:
Executive Order 9066, Executive Order 8802, "Congested Areas," B-17, Hanford Engineering Works, Camp Harmony, Kaiser Shipyards, Vanport, Bracero Program, Rosie the Riveter; Seattle World's Fair, Tri-Cities, Canwell Commission, "Military-Metropolitan-Industrial Complex," B-52, Warren Magnuson, Henry Jackson, "Green run," Downwinders, Space Needle

Week 7 homework TBA

Week 8:  August 17-21

Environmentalism, civil rights

Reading:

• Under Two Flags: Mexican Workers in Washington Fields

• Watch the videos "A Really Nice Place to Live" and "The End of Old Days"

• Watch the Frontline film, "Poisoned Waters," parts 7 to 11

Key Terms:
Black Panthers, Fish-ins, Boldt decision, Termination Policy, Organic Machine, Wing Luke, Ruby Chow, Microsoft, Starbucks, REI, Internet bubble, Spotted owl, Old growth forest, Cascade curtain, Endangered Species Act

Paper 2/Final Exam part I is due in class on Wednesday, August 19.  I WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY PAPERS AFTER THIS DEADLINE!

Final Exam part II in class on Friday, August 21

I reserve the right to make changes to this website or any aspect of the course as I may see fit over the course of the quarter.  It is each student's responsibility to regularly check e-mail and the schedule and assignments pages for possible changes.