American Indian Thought Philosophical Essays

This book brings together a diverse group of American Indian thinkers to discuss traditional and contemporary philosophies and philosophical issues.

• Covers American Indian thinking on issues concerning time, place, history, science, law, religion, nationhood, and art.
• Features newly commissioned essays by authors of American Indian descent.
• Includes a comprehensive bibliography to aid in research and inspire further reading.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: American Indians and Philosophy:.

1. Vine Deloria, Jr.: Why We Respect Our Elders Burial Grounds.

Part II: Epistemology and Knowing:.

2. Brian Yazzie Burkhart: What Coyote and Thales Can Teach Us.

3. V.F. Cordova: Approaches to Native American Philosophy.

4. John Dufour: Epistemology and Understanding.

Part III: Science, Math, Logic:.

5. Gregory Cajete: A Philosophy of Native Science.

6. Thomas Norton Smith: Indigenous Numerical Thought.

7. Anne Waters: That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory.

Part IV: Metaphysics and Being:.

8. Ted Jojola: Notes on Identity, Time, Place, and Space.

9. Anne Waters: Language Matters: NonDiscreet NonBinary Dualism.

10. Maureen E. Smith: Crippling the Spirit, Wounding the Soul: Native American Spiritual and Religious Suppression.

Part V: Phenomenology and Ontology.

11. Marilyn Notah Verney: On Authenticity.

12. Leslie Nawagesic: The Phenomenology of a Mugwump Life.

13. Anne Waters: Ontology of Identity and Interstitial Being.

Part VI: Ethics and Respect:.

14. V.F. Cordova: Ethics: The We and the I.

15. Thurmond Lee Hester: Choctaw Conceptions of the Excellence of the Self, with Implications for a Native Education.

16. Laurie Anne Whitt: Commodification of Knowledge.

Part VII: Social and Political:.

17. Steve Russell: Jurisprudence of Colonialism.

18. Dale Turner: Oral Traditions and the Politics of (Mis)recognition.

19. Annette Arkeketa: Repatriation: Religious Freedom, Equal Opportunity, and Institutional Racism.

Part VIII: Aesthetics:.

20. V.F. Cordova: Ethics: From an Artist’s Point of View.

21. David Martinez: Along the Horizon A World Appears: George Morrison and the Pursuit of an American Indian Aesthetic.

22. Thurmond Lee Hester: On Philosophical Discourse: Some Intercultural Musings.

Bibliography.

Index