Pathways for remembering and recognizing Indigenous thought in education : philosophies of Iethi'nihsténha Ohwentsia'kékha (land) / Sandra D. Styres.

"Indigenous scholars have been gathering, speaking, and writing about Indigenous knowledge for decades. These knowledges are grounded in ancient traditions and very old pedagogies that have been woven with the tangled strings and chipped beads of colonial relations. Pathways for Remembering and...

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Main Author: Styres, Sandra D., 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Section one. Vision : (re)centring
  • Introduction
  • 1. Iethi'nihsténha Ohwentsia'kékha : land, circularity, and storying
  • Section two. Relationships : (re)membering
  • 2. Iethi'nihsténha Ohwentsia'kékha : space, place, and land
  • 3. Self-in-relationship
  • 4. "You're not the Indian I had in mind"
  • Section three. Knowledge : (re)cognizing
  • 5. Sacred fires : contemporary (re)memberings of ancient knowledges and very old pegagogies
  • 6. Relations of privilege, relations of power
  • 7. Land and circularity : an indigenous philosophical approach to thought
  • Section four. Action : (re)generating
  • 8. Indigenous and dominant Western philosophies : a bridge too far?
  • 9. Indigenous languages and thought : a verb-oriented reality
  • Section five. Iethi'nihsténha Ohwentsia'kékha : (re)actualizing
  • 10. Tensions, challenges, and contradictions
  • 11. Coyote as trickster
  • 12. Conclusions and implications : Iethi'nihsténha Ohwentsia'kékha, beyond responsiveness and place-based education.