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Essay Question for the Second Exam
This is a take-home exam question.
Students may use artificial intelligence tools, including generative AI, on this course as learning aids or to help produce assignments and tests. Please realize that AI is far from perfect. AI often produces errors of fact, irrelevant text, has not done the reading for this class or heard the lectures, and may plagerize the work of others. Students are ultimately accountable for the work they submit including work generated by AI. If a student uses AI, they must submit both the original AI document with the original prompts and their revision of the AI document. Students who use AI and fail to submit both required documents will recieve a 0 for the work.
Your essay (and the AI generated document if applicable) will be due in double spaced hard copy at the exam on March 26. You will also submit your essay (or the revision of the AI document) via Turnitin in the lecture section of Brightspace by 6:00PM March 26.
Your answer should be no more than 1000 words in length. We will not read more than 1000 words. This essay is worth 40 points of the total of 100 points for the first exam.
Please put your name, your TA's name and your discusion section number on your paper.
You should feel free to discuss the question with other
members
of the class and work in study groups. However, you must answer
the
question on your own. When the time comes to compose the answer
to
the question do it alone. We will be systematically checking for
answers that are too similar in composition. IF
YOU PLAGIARIZE THE WORK OF SOMEONE ELSE YOU WILL BE CHARGED WITH
CHEATING, YOU WILL RECEIVE AN F FOR THE CLASS, AND YOU WILL BE TAKEN BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY HONESTY COMMITTEE.
QUESTION:
The 21st century has witnessed a transformation of U.S. archaeology. Archaeologists have recognized that U.S. research has traditionally been a settler state approach that excludes Native voices. Some archaeologists have proposed an Indigenous archaeology to change this research. Define Indigenous Archaeology and discuss how it has attempted to transform settler state research? In your answer, be sure to include the following issues. What is the significance of the Native American Graves & Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 within this context? How do theories for the peopling of the Americas play into these discussions? How do indigenous oral histories of their origins differ from archaeological interpretations? Your answer must include material from lectures and reading.
Grading Rubric
Thesis statement - 2 points
Define NAGPRA - 4 points
Significance of NAGPRA - 4 points
Define and Describe Indigenous Archaeology - 10 points
Discuss the debate over the peopling of the Americas - 10 points
Indigenous oral history and archaeology – 4 points
Info from readings – 4 points
Quality of Writing - 2 points
Click the link below to get help on writing a good informative thesis statement.
http://www.easybib.com/guides/how-to-write-a-strong-thesis-statement/
Please focus your efforts on arguments, material and information presented in this class. You will not find the answer to the question by googling web pages. Always remember that in any exam or essay we will be evaluating you in terms of two major criteria: (1) how well you answer the questions and (2) have you done the work of the class. Using Professor Google will probably confuse criteria one and will not demonstrate your completion of criteria two.