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"Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land articulates the way in which land acts as a material, conceptual, and ontological foundation for Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and valuing, and as the key to the operations of coloniality and decolonial liberation as well the framework for Indigenous environmental ethics, as a foundation of ethics rather than a derivative or applied field of ethics"-- Provided by publisher.

A collection of quotations from American Indians throughout the continent dated from the earliest contact with Europeans to contemporary tribal persons.

Pragmatism is America's most distinctive philosophy. Generally, it has been understood as a development of European thought in response to the 'American wilderness'. A closer examination, however, reveals that the roots and central commitments of pragmatism are indigenous to North America. Native Pragmatism recovers this history and thus provides the means to re-conceive the scope and potential of American philosophy.

Continuing the author's explorations of Native-American culture, a study of the elders of thirteen different tribes involves encounters with wise men and women, tribal leaders, healers, high priests, and sorcerers

"As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, the author has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to the Americas, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In this book, she brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans...

"In The Soul of the Indian, first published in 1911, Charles A. Eastman's aim was "to paint the religious life of the typical American Indian as it was before he knew the white man." The new introduction by Brenda J. Child grounds this important book in contemporary studies"-- Provided by publisher.