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Tables of Contents for American Indian Thought
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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