American Indian Thought : Philosophical Essays

by Waters, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780631223047
• ISBN10: 0631223045
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume brings together American Indian intellectuals to discuss traditional and contemporary philosophies and philosophical issues.

Author Biography

Anne Waters is Research Associate at the Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Center at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Sheis the founder and President of the American Indian Philosophy Association. She edits the American Philosophical Association (APA) Newsletter on American Indian Philosophy and is chair of the APA Committee on American Indians in Philosophy. Among other publications, she is co-editor of American Philosophies: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2001).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
Part I American Indians and Philosophy	1	(12)
1 Vine Deloria, Jr.
Philosophy and the Tribal Peoples	3	(10)
Part II Epistemology and Knowing	13	(30)
2 Brian Yazzie Burkhart
What Coyote and Thales Can Teach Us: An Outline of American Indian Epistemology	15	(12)
3 V.F. Cordova
Approaches to Native American Philosophy	27	(7)
4 John DuFour
Ethics and Understanding	34	(9)
Part III Science, Math, Logic	43	(42)
5 Gregory Cájete
Philosophy of Native Science	45	(13)
6 Thomas M. Norton-Smith
Indigenous Numerical Thought in Two American Indian Tribes	58	(14)
7 Anne Waters
That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory: America's Indigenous Nations and Informal Logic Courses	72	(13)
Part IV Metaphysics and Being	85	(46)
8 Ted Jójola
Notes on Identity, Time, Space, and Place	87	(10)
9 Anne Waters
Language Matters: Nondiscrete Nonbinary Dualism	97	(19)
10 Maureen E. Smith
Crippling the Spirit, Wounding the Soul: Native American Spiritual and Religious Suppression	116	(15)
Part V Phenomenology and Ontology	131	(40)
11 Marilyn Notah Verney
On Authenticity	133	(7)
12 Leslie Nawagesic
Phenomenology of a Mugwump Type of Life in an Autobiographical Snippet	140	(13)
13 Anne Waters
Ontology of Identity and Interstitial Being	153	(18)
Part VI Ethics and Respect	171	(44)
14 V.F. Cordova
Ethics: The We and the I	173	(9)
15 Thurman Lee Hesten, Jr.
Choctaw Conceptions of the Excellence of the Self, with Implications for Education	182	(6)
16 Laurie Anne Whitt
Biocolonialism and the Commodification of Knowledge	188	(27)
Part VII Social and Political Philosophy	215	(34)
17 Steve Russell
The Jurisprudence of Colonialism	217	(12)
18 Dale Turner
Oral Traditions and the Politics of (Mis)Recognition	229	(10)
19 Annette Arkeketa
Repatriation: Religious Freedom, Equal Protection, and Institutional Racism	239	(10)
Part VIII Esthetics	249	(19)
20 V.F. Cordova
Ethics: From an Artist's Point of View	251	(5)
21 David Martinez
Along the Horizon a World Appears: George Morrison and the Pursuit of an American Indian Esthetic	256	(7)
22 Thurman Lee Hester, Jr.
On Philosophical Discourse: Some Intercultural Musings	263
Anne Waters and Amy Miskowski
Bibliography	268	(31)
Index	299