History, Culture, and Customs of the Nueta and Hidatsa: A Case Study into Native America with Mike Barthelemy

History, Culture, and Customs of the Nueta and Hidatsa: A Case Study into Native America with Mike Barthelemy

• This is a 16-meeting hybrid class being taught in-person to students at NHS College and online
• Those auditing the class with Humanities North Dakota will be doing so online through Zoom
• Wednesdays, Jan 15, 22, 29, Feb 5, 12, 19, 26, March 5, 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
• 6-8pm CT

Explore the history, culture and customs of the Nueta and Hidatsa by studying the relationship between Anthropology, History, Archeology, and Geography as it relates to Native people with the intersection of Native oral history and perspective. This course covers the pre-contact era, providing us with a new vision of the indigenous continent before European impact. The History of the Knife and Heart River complexes though the lens of Native oral histories and ethnographic studies is integral in understanding the history of these tribes as they have always understood it. These tribes were economic epicenters for the middle and upper Missouri region. Students will listen to oral histories to critically reflect on these narratives and how they work as expressions of culture. This exploratory study into the history of these tribes will take us from our origins in oral history tradition and late Pleistocene sites like Beacon Island to our cultural reimagining in the confluence region at Cherry Necklace's fasting grounds.

INSTRUCTOR BIO

Mike Barthelemy is the current Director of Native American Studies at Nueta, Hidatsa, Sahnish College who previously served as the former tribal archivist for the MHA Interpretive Center and the Park Superintendent for the MHA Nation Tribal Park. Mike has worked in the community extensively collecting indigenous oral histories to provide native perspective on historical places and events such as the cultural landscape report for the Knife River Indian Villages and making contributions to the Joslyn Museum’s Faces from the Interior exhibition. When Mike is not working on a multitude of projects, he is spending time with his family, mostly traveling to his stepson’s basketball games and taking walks to the park with his wife and their 14-month-old, Dahu.

HND Value Statement

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or Humanities North Dakota. However, in an increasingly polarized world, we at Humanities North Dakota believe that being open-minded is necessary to thinking critically and rationally. Therefore, our programs and classes reflect our own open-mindedness in the inquiry, seeking, and acquiring of scholars to speak at our events and teach classes for our Public University. To that end, we encourage our participants to join us in stepping outside our comfort zones and considering other perspectives and ideas by being open-minded while attending HND events featuring scholars who hold a variety of opinions, some being opposite of our own held beliefs.

Humanities North Dakota classes and events are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities