American Indian Thought Philosophical Essays [Paperback]

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• 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 Phenoml£)