Selections for a Bibliography (as of August, 2001)

(Suggestions welcomed, plenty of email jumps available)

Here are a few texts that could make philosophic talk possible about Indigenous thought.  (This should make Text Philosophers, who regard philosophizing/philosophy as essentially dependent/derivative on/of textual articulation, happy.)  The range of themes reaches philosophizing religion, politics, metaphysics, knowing this or that, ethics, technology, arts, education, rule by legislation, and so on.  It is naturally interesting to classify any text, and some of these undoubtedly fit into more than one or some of these fit into other more appropriately labeled categories.  Classifications are here for, for the most part, bibliographers, and for the other non-most part, here so you might have something to talk about.  No serious attempt has been made to list these in date order, to conform to a bibliographic standard (though most are quasi-University of Chicago style viaTurabian), or to be inclusive.  This bibliography is not static.  Any sharing of suggestions on categories, on entries, etc., are naturally welcome.   

At Anne's urging, an asterisk after an entry indicates that as far as we believe the author (or in the case of multiple authors, at least one of the authors) is American Indian, Native, Metis, etc..

References to other bibliographies. For instance, see Marilyn Holly's article [Marilyn Holly, "The Incorporation of American Indian Philosophy into Undergraduate Philosophy Courses", Teaching Philosophy 15:4 (December 1992), p. 351 etc.].   Suggestions/comments?

Some of the references below are from syllabi (Prof. Scott Pratt and Prof. Ann Waters) handed out to participants at a "Teaching Native American Philosophy" session in March, 1997 at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque.  These entries are noted.

• Stereotyping
• Devon Mihesuah, American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 1996) *
• Suggestions?
• Generally Speaking
• Robert Bunge, An American Urphilosophie: An American Philosophy BP (Before Pragmatism), (Lanham et. al.: University Press of America, 1984). *
• James V. Fenelon, Culturicide, Resistance, and Survival of the Lakota ("Sioux Nation"), (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998).  Includes an interesting bibliography.  *
• James Kale McNeley, Holy Wind in Navajo Philosophy (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981), fifth printing 1997.
• Dennis McPherson and Doug Rabb, Indian From the Inside: A Study in Ethno-metaphysics (Thunder Bay: Lakehead University, 1993). *
• The journal Ayaangwaamizin: The International Journal of Indigenous Philosophy.  For subscription information email Lakehead University Bookstore or write to Lakehead University Bookstore, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, P7B 5E1   CANADA.  Their phone number is (or was as of 1997) (807) 343-8589 and their fax is or was (807) 343-8158.  From their "Description": "Ayaangwaamizin is a refereed academic journal devoted to the examination of Indigenous thought.  Its existence is a recognition of the growing number of Indigenous scholars who are engaged in critically examining the ideas and concepts in their own cultural traditions as well as in others...."
• From our Eyes: Learning from Indigenous Peoples, ed. Sylvia O'Meara and Douglas A. West, (Toronto: Garamond Press, 1996).
• Thurman Lee Hester Jr. and Dennis McPherson, "Editorial: The Euro-American Philosophical Tradition and its Ability to Examine Indigenous Philosophy", Ayaangwaamizin 1:1 (Spring 1997): 3-10.  *
• Dennis McPherson and J. Douglas Rabb, "Some Thoughts on Articulating a Native Philosophy", Ayaangwaamizin 1:1 (Spring 1997): 11-22.  *
• Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy (New York: Liveright, 1975), ed. Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock.
• Suggestions?
   
• Sovereignty, Self-Determination
• Vine Deloria, Jr. & Clifford M. Lytle, The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984, 1998 second edition).  *
• Suggestions?
• Rule by Legislation
  • Sharon Helen Venne, Our Elders Understand Our Rights: Evolving International Law Regarding Indigenous Rights (Penticton, British Columbia: Theytus Books, Ltd., 1998).  *
  • Suggestions?

• Philosophizing Religions
• Vine Deloria, Jr., God is Red: A Native View of Religion (Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 1994).  (Originally published in early 1970s.)  *
• Native and Christian: Indigenous Voices on religious identity in the United States and Canada, ed. James Treat, (New York: Routledge, 1996).  *
• Handbook of American Indian Religious Freedom, ed. Christopher Vecsey, (New York: Crossroad, 1996).
• Jack F. Trope, "Protecting Native American Sacred Sites and Religious Freedom", Wicazo Sa Review 7:1 (Fall 1991): 53-55.
• Robert S. Michaelsen, "Is the Miner's Canary Silent? Implications of the Supreme Court's Denial of American Indian Free Exercise of Religion Claims", The Journal of Law and Religion 6:1 (1988): 97-114.
• Robert S. Michaelsen, "American Indian Religious Freedom Litigation: Promise and Perils", The Journal of Law and Religion 3:1 (1985): 47-76.
• Jay Hansford C. Vest, "Traditional Blackfeet Religion and the Sacred Badger-Two Medicine Wildlands", The Journal of Law and Religion 6:2 (1988): 455-489.
• Vine Deloria, Jr., "Trouble in High Places: Erosion of American Indian Rights to Religious Freedom in the United States", in The State of Native American: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance. Published in 1992.   *
• Suggestions?
   
• Philosophizing Education

• Vine Deloria, Jr., "Education and Imperialism", Integrateducation 19:1-2 (1982). *
• M. Annette Jaimes Guerrero, "Academic Apartheid: American Indian Studies and 'Multiculturalism'", in Mapping Multiculturalism, ed. Avery F. Goddon and Christopher Newfield, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996). *
• Ward Churchill, "White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of Contemporary U.S. Education", Integrateducation 19:1-2 (1982). *
• M. Annette Jaimes, "American Indian Studies: Toward an Indigenous Model", American Indian Culture and Research Journal 11:3 (1987). *
• Ward Churchill, "White Studies or Isolation: An Alternative Model for Native American Studies Programs", American Indian Issues in Higher Education, ed. James Young, (Los Angeles: UCLA American Indian Studies Program, 1981). *
• Suggestions?
   
• "American Indian Worldview"

These are suggested (as is the subject heading of this and the next one) by Ward Churchill and M. Annette Jaimes, "American Indian Studies: A Positive Alternative", The Bloomsbury Review (September/October 1988).

• Vine Deloria, Jr., God is Red: A Native View of Religion. *

• Viola Cordova, The Concept of Monism in Navajo Thought. This is a dissertation she wrote at the University of New Mexico and finished in 1992. *

• Vine Deloria, Jr., Metaphysics of Modern Existence. (This was published around 1977.)  *

• V. F. Cordova, "The European Concept of Usen", (1996), MS.  *

• Suggestions?
   

• "Marxism and Native Americans"
• Marxism & Native Americans, ed. Ward Churchill. (1983)  *
• Elisabeth R. Lloyd and Ward Churchill, Culture versus Economism: Essays on Marxism in the Multicultural Arena. Published in 1984.  *
• Suggestions?
  
• Philosophizing Knowing, Knowing Claims, etc. etc.
  • Rudolph C. Ryser, "Observations on `Self' and `Knowing'", in Tribal Epistemologies: Essays in the Philosophy of Anthropology, ed. Helmut Wautischer, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 3-14.  *
  • Judith Ann Remington, An Epistemological Study of Navajo Divination and European Science (Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern, 1982).
  • Jace Weaver, "Decolonizing the Mind: White Words/Cherokee Thoughts", Ayaangwaamizin 1:1 (Spring 1997): 23-30. *
  • Manu Aluli Meyer, "Native Hawaiian Epistemology: Exploring Hawaiian Views of Knowledge", Cultural Survival Quarterly 22:1 (Spring 1998): 38-42.  *
  • Vine Deloria, "Civilization and Isolation", reprinted in his anthology For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, (New York and London: Routledge, 1999), ed. James Treat.  *
  • Suggestions?
     
• Environment
• Annie L. Booth and Harvey L. Jacob, "Ties That Bind: Native American Beliefs As a Foundation for Environmental Consciousness", Environmental Ethics 12:1 (Spring 1990): pp. 17-43.
• Ward Churchill, "American Indian Lands: The Native Ethic and Resource Development", Environment 28:6 (1986)  *
• Arthur Versluis, Sacred Earth (Rochester: Inner Traditions International, 1992).
• Donald A. Grinde and Bruce E. Johansen, Ecocide of Native American:   Environmental destruction of Indian lands and peoples (Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1995). *
• Patricia Marie Jostad, A Native American Land Ethic, dissertation 1994.
• John Bierhorst, The way of the Earth: Native American and the Environment, (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1994).
• V. F. Cordova, "EcoIndian: A Response to J. Baird Callicott" Ayaangwaamizin 1:1 (Spring 1997): 31-44.   *
• Paul Driben, Donald J. Auger, Anthony N. Doob, Raymond P. Auger, "No Killing Ground: Aboriginal Law Governing the Killing of Wildlife Among the Cree and Ojibwa of Northern Ontario", Ayaangwaamizin 1:1 (Spring 1997): 91-107.
• Suggestions?
   
• Philosophizing Arts
  • Suggestions?

• Philosophizing Justice
• Ward Churchill, "Perversions of Justice: Examining the Doctrine of U.S. Rights to Occupancy in North American", in his Struggle for the Land (1993).  *
• Suggestions?
   
• Philosophizing Sciences
• How about Vine Deloria's "Perceptions and Maturity: Reflections on Paul Feyerabend's Point of View", in Beyond Reason: Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend, ed. Gonzalo Munevar, (Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1991), pp. 389-401.  *
• Vine Deloria, Jr., Red Earth, White Lies (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1997).*
• Suggestions?
   
• Identity Projects
  • Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, "Rethinking Identity and Gender: Contributions of Native Mapuche Machis (Shaman/Healers) from Southern Chile", Hypatia issue forthcoming in 2002 [no information on month, issue, or number], special issue edited by M.A. Jaimes Guerrero and Anne Waters.  *
  • Anne Waters, "'Lost Sailors' or 'Hegemony, Identity, Ontology: Discovering Binary Dualism", forthcoming in Engendering Rationalities, ed. Sandi Morgan and Nancy Tuana.  [No information on publishing information other than a date: 2001.]  *

• Historical Reflections
• Kathy Squadrito, "Locke and the Dispossession of the American Indian", American Indian Culture and Research 20:4 (1996): 145-181.
• Scott L. Pratt, "Native American Thought and the Origins of Pragmatism", Ayaangwaamizin 1:1 (Spring 1997): 55-80.
• Suggestions?
   
• Reflections on Language(s)
• Thurman Lee Hester Jr., "Pishukchi: One Choctaw's Examination of the Differences in English and Choctaw Language Use", Ayaangwaamizin 1:1 (Spring 1997): 81-90.  *
• Suggestions?
   

[The following is a selection from  a syllabus on Native American Philosophy by Scott Pratt. I use his subject headings. ]

• "Approaches to Native American Philosophy" [Pratt's category]
• Alfonso Ortiz, "American Indian Philosophy: Its Relation to the Modern World", Indian Voices: The First Convocation of American Indian Scholars. *
• Paula Gunn Allen, The Sacred Hoop. Published in 1992.  *
• Suggestions?
   
• "The Haudenosuanee Philosophical Tradition" [Pratt's category]

• Akwasasne Notes. basic call to consciousness. Published 1978.
• A. Irving Hallowell, "Ojibwa Ontology, Behavior, and World View", in Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy.
• Mary B. Black, "Ojibwa Power Belief System", in The Anthropology of Power.
• Suggestions?
   
• "Ceremony" [Pratt's category]
• John Mohawk, "The Indian Way is a Thinking Tradition", in Indian Roots of American Democracy. Published in 1992.  *
• William N. Fenton, "Structure, Continuity and Change in the Process of Iroquois Treaty Making". In The History and Culture of Iroquois Diplomacy. Published in 1985.
• Suggestions?
   
• "Place" [Pratt's Category]
• Robert W. Venables, "Iroquois Environments and `We The People of The United States'", in American Indian Environments: Ecological Issues in Native American History.
• L. Peter Boice, "The Iroquois Sense of Place: Legends as a Source of Environmental Imagery", New York Folklore 5:3-4 (1989): pp. 179-188.
• Suggestions?
   
• "Contemporary Native American Philosophy" [Pratt's Category]
• M. Annette Jaimes, "Native American Identity and Survival: Indigenism and Environmental Ethics", Issues in Native American Cultural Identity, ed. Michael K. Green, (New York: Peter Lang, 1995): pp. 223-272.  *
• Ward Churchill, Since Predator Came. Published in 1995. Also see his many other books.  *
• Robert Allen Warrior, Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).  *
• Suggestions?

[end Pratt's syllabus]
 

• Others that may fall into one of the above themes or may not.   Any suggestions on categorizing or inclusion are naturally welcome.
• Joseph Epes Brown, The Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian. Published in 1982, but the publication dates of some of the chapters go back to the late 60s, early 70s.
• Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died For Your Sins. Published in 1969. *
• V. F. Cordova, How It Is: A Native American Creation Story. Published in 1994. *
• Jimmie Durham, "Cowboys and...Notes on Art, Literature, and American Indians in the Modern American Mind", in The State of Native American: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance. Published in 1992.  *
• Jerry Mander, In the Absence of the Sacred: The failure of technology & the survival of the Indian nations. Published in 1992. This is clearly a book concerning issues that are discussed in ethics and philosophy of technology.
• Denys Delage and Helen Hornbeck Turner, "The Ojibwa-Jesuit Debate at Walpole Island, 1844", Ethnohistory 41: 2 (Spring 1994): pp. 295-321.
• Ed McGaa, Native Wisdom: Perceptions of the Natural Way. Published in 1995. *
• Chuck Ross, Mitakuye Oyasin, published in the 1970s  *
• Sioux Indian Religion, ed. Raymond DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks.  *
• William K. Powers, Oglala Religion.
• Howard Adams, A Tortured People: The Politics of Colonization (Penticton, BC: Theytus Books, Ltd., 1995).   *
• Reece Pendleton, "A Ghostly Splendor: John G. Neihardt's Spiritual Preparation for Entry into Black Elk's World", American Indian Culture and Research Journal 19:4 (1995): 213-229.
• As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity, ed. William S. Penn, (Berkeley: Univ. of Cal. Press, 1998).  *
• Kirke Kickingbird and Karen Ducheneaux, One Hundred Million Acres.  *
• The Sacred Tree (Four Worlds Development Project, 1985).  *
• Michael Lawson, Dammed Indians.
• Jim Welch, The Death of Jim Loney.  *
• Lorraine Brundige, "`Ungrateful Indian': Continuity of Native Values", Ayaangwaamizin 1:1 (Spring 1997): 45-54.  *
• Natives and Academics: researching and writing about American Indians, ed. Devon A. Mihesuah, (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998) *
• Anne Waters, forthcoming, "Emergent Space: Indigenist American Thought and Disability" in Hypatia: Special Issue on Women and Disability, [no publishing info except published by Indiania University, Indianapolis, 2001], ed. Eva Kittay, Anita Silvers, and Susan Wendell. *
• Suggestions-remarks-etc.: