It looks like the bulk of my work on Altepehua in the next 2-3 weeks will be entirely research. There's a lot out there to look into, so I'll mostly be reading as much as I can get my hands on. Ideally, I want to have a solid idea of the cultural and political climate of North America between 1300 and 1500, to get a better sense of who the major players would have been in any future development. So far, it's looking like the Aztecs, the Sioux Nation, the Apache, the Iroquois (they had a constitution!) and the Inuits, but that is HIGHLY tentative and likely to change as I get deeper into who was where doing what. Hit the link to get links to some of the subjects (though definitely not all the sources) I'm looking into.
Peoples of Altepehua
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sioux_Nation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache
Cultures who might have interacted with Altepehua
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Brazil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanban_trade_period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia#Imperial_Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Dynasty
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FILM LIST
* Must see: "Nanook of the North" (1922). Netflix has it. It is a bit absurd but hey, it was made in 1922.
* films by James Houston who lived with the Inuit. Our library probably has his films.
* the ever so didactic mel gibson film "apocalypto". I haven't seen it yet, but I am dreading it...
* "Beyond the Gates of Splendor" and the "End of the Spear". The first is documentary of the event and the second is movie about missionaries who got killed after contacting the natives of the rainforest. Interesting integration tale of natives with missionaries..(Netflix)
Posted by marientina | September 27, 2007 12:56 PM
Posted on September 27, 2007 12:56