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

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).

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

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