Spirit and reason : the Vine Deloria, Jr. reader

Type
Book
Authors
Vine Deloria ( Deloria, Vine )
 
ISBN 10
1555914306 
ISBN 13
9781555914301 
Category
General Library Collection  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1999 
Publisher
Pages
400 
Subject
Indigenous philosophy -- North America 
Abstract
"A collection of Vine Deloria Jr.'s writings from books, essays, and articles, as well as previously unpublished pieces. "--Amazon. 
Biblio Notes
Contents:
Part I: Philosophy --
Perceptions and maturity: reflections on Feyerabend's point of view --
The trickster and the Messiah --
Relativity, relatedness, and reality --
If you think about it, you will see that it is true --
Part II: Social science --
Ethnoscience and Indian realities --
Indians, archaeologists, and the future --
Low bridge, everybody cross --
At the beginning --
A flock of anthros --
Part III: Education --
Traditional technology --
Knowing and understanding: traditional education in the modern world --
Higher education and self-determination --
The turmoil of ethnic studies --
The burden of Indian education --
Part IV: Indians --
Indian affairs 1973: Hebrews 13:8 --
Why Indians aren't celebrating the bicentennial --
The American Revolution and the American Indian: problems in the recovery of a usable past --
Kinship with the world --
The popularity of being Indian: a new trend in contemporary American society --
Alcatraz, activism, and accommodation --
More others --
The Indian population --
Part V: Religion --
The religious challenge --
The concept of history --
Tribal religions and contemporary American culture --
Sacred places and moral responsibility --
Myth and the origin of religion --
Tribal religious realities --
Worshiping the golden calf: freedom of religion in Scalia's America.  
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