Thomas Norton Smith: Indigenous Numerical Thought. Gregory Cajete: A Philosophy of Native Science. John Dufour: Epistemology and Understanding. Cordova: Approaches to Native American Philosophy. Brian Yazzie Burkhart: What Coyote and Thales Can Teach Us. Vine Deloria, Jr.: Why We Respect Our Elders Burial Grounds. The writers explain perspectives on metaphysics, epistemology, phenomenology, social and political philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics, in ways that will challenge, inspire and fascinate readers across disciplines." Naomi Zack, University of Oregon Outlaw, Jr., Vanderbilt University "American Indian Thought contrasts US indigenous philosophies with Western academic philosophy. We will be better persons and philosophers for having done so, and better citizens, too." Lucius T. By reading these essays carefully, respectfully, and with open minds we have an opportunity to do better by Indian peoples than was the shameful case several centuries ago, and since. Each essay offers fresh ways of defining what philosophy is about." Iris Marion Young, University of Chicago "Descendants of survivors of the 'moral monstrosity' of near genocidal oppression of Native peoples are now within the ranks of professional philosophers and are hard at work rescuing and rehabilitating Indian philosophical thought. Its ideas intersect with diverse subfields of the discipline of philosophy as taught in North American universities.
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