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Blackfoot ways of knowing : the worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi / by Betty Bastien ; JFurgen W. Kremer, editor ; Duane Mistaken Chief, language consultant.

Bastien, Betty, 1948- (Author). Kremer, JFurgen W. (Added Author).

Summary:

"The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of coming home to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world. As a scholar and researcher, Bastien is also able to place Blackfoot tradition within the context of knowledge building among indigenous peoples generally, and within an historical context of precarious survival amid colonial displacement and cultural genocide."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 1552381099 :
Physical Description: xx, 235 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235).

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Pete Standing Alone -- Preface / Betty Bastien -- Blackfoot (Siksikaitsipowahsin) pronunciation key / Duane Mistaken Chief, Sr -- I. Context -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Innahkootaitsinnika'topi - history of the blackfoot-speaking tribes -- 2.1. Introductory remarks -- 2.2. Iitotasimahpi Iimitaiks - the era of the dog or the time of the ancestors (pre-eighteenth century) -- 2.3. Ao'ta'sao'si ponokaomita - the era of the horse (eighteenth century to 1880) -- 2.4. Ao'maopao'si - from when we settled in one place (1880) to today -- 3. Cultural destruction - policies of ordinary genocide -- II. Tribal protocol and affirmative inquiry -- 4. Niinohkanistssksinipi - speaking personally -- 5. Traditional knowledge in academe -- 6. Cultural affirmation -- 7. Protocol of affirmative inquiry -- III. Affirmation of indigenous knowledge -- 8. Kakyosin - traditional knowledge -- 9. Kiitomohpiipotoko - ontological responsibilities -- 10. Siksikaitsitapi ways of knowing - epistemology -- 11. Knowledge is coming of know Ihtsipaitapiiyo'pa -- 12. Kakyosin/Mokaksin - indigenous learning -- 13. Niitsi'powahsinni - language -- 14. Aipommotsspistsi - transfers -- 15. Kaaahsinnooniksi - grandparents -- IV. Conclusion : renewal of ancestral responsibilities as antidote to genocide -- 16. Deconstructing the colonized mind -- 17. Eurocentred and Niitsitapi identity -- 18. Reflections and implications -- Afterword : remembering ancestral conversations / Jurgen W. Kremer -- Glossaries / Duane Mistaken Chief and Jurgen W. Kremer -- Siksikaitsipowahsin - English -- English - Siksikaitsipowahsin.