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Native American Philosophical Traditions: Thought, Life, and Belonging in the Indigenous World

Native American Philosophical Traditions: Thought, Life, and Belonging in the Indigenous World

Aiguafreda, Quim

Paperback

PhilosophyNative American History

ISBN13: 9798189645709
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 28 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What happens when Native American philosophy is treated as philosophy rather than as mythology, spirituality, folklore, or a decorative quotation about living in harmony with nature?

Native American Philosophical Traditions: Thought, Life, and Belonging in the Indigenous World examines the ideas, arguments, and political realities found across the diverse intellectual traditions of Indigenous North America. It rejects the extremely convenient notion that hundreds of nations share one timeless worldview involving circles, balance, and sunsets.

Instead, this book explores how particular Indigenous traditions have approached questions of reality, knowledge, personhood, land, time, kinship, law, sovereignty, science, technology, death, responsibility, and the good life. It considers stories as forms of reasoning, places as sources of memory and authority, nonhuman beings as possible persons, and nations as political communities rather than cultural interest groups.

Along the way, it confronts familiar myths: the noble ecological saint, the primitive enemy of progress, the genetically certified Indian, the vanished traditional person, and the universally peaceful community that somehow never had an argument. Drawing on specific nations, historical cases, legal disputes, and thinkers such as Vine Deloria Jr., Viola F. Cordova, Glen Coulthard, Audra Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Kyle Powys Whyte, and many others, the book presents Indigenous philosophy as living, plural, contested, and intellectually demanding.

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