Blackfoot Ways Of Knowing

Author : Betty Bastien
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381099
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackfoot Ways of Knowing written by Betty Bastien and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackfoot Ways of Knowing 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.

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Download or read book Blackfoot Ways of Knowing written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: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 a historical context of precarious survival amid colonial displacement and cultural genocide. In mapping her own process of coming to know, Bastien stresses the recovery of the Blackfoot language and of the Blackfoot notions of reciprocal responsibilities and interdependence. For the Siksikaitsitapi, knowledge is experiential, participatory, and ultimately sacred, rather than objective and inert. Rekindling traditional ways of knowing is essential if First Nations people in Canada are to heal and rebuild their communities and cultures. By sharing what she has learned, Betty Bastien hopes to ensure that the next generation of First Nations people will enjoy a future of hope and peace.

Author : David Peat
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 1609255860
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackfoot Physics written by David Peat and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The modern version of The Tao of Physics. . . We gain tantalizing glimpses of an elusive alternative to the thing we know as science. . . . Above all, Peat's book is an eloquent plea for a fair go for the modes of enquiry of other cultures." --New Scientist One summer in the 1980s, theoretical physicist F. David Peat went to a Blackfoot Sun Dance ceremony. Having spent all of his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science, he was entranced by the Native American worldview and, through dialogue circles between scientists and native elders, he began to explore it in greater depth. Blackfoot Physics is the account of his discoveries. In an edifying synthesis of anthropology, history, metaphysics, cosmology, and quantum theory, Peat compares the medicines, the myths, the languages—the entire perceptions of reality of the Western and indigenous peoples. What becomes apparent is the amazing resemblance between indigenous teachings and some of the insights that are emerging from modern science, a congruence that is as enlightening about the physical universe as it is about the circular evolution of humanity’s understanding. Through Peat’s insightful observations, he extends our understanding of ourselves, our understanding of the universe, and how the two intersect in a meaningful vision of human life in relation to a greater reality.

Author : Mary A. Stout
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1433959542
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackfoot History and Culture written by Mary A. Stout and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history, survival, religion, culture, social development, and modern world of the Blackfeet.

Author : Donald G. Frantz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442658282
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackfoot Grammar written by Donald G. Frantz and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of people in Alberta and Montana speak Blackfoot, an Algonquian language. But the numbers are diminishing and the survival of Blackfoot is in some danger. To help preserve the language while it is still in daily use, Donald G. Frantz and Norma Jean Russell collaborated on the Blackfoot Dictionary, published in 1989 to widespread acclaim and later revised in 1995. Blackfoot Grammar, the companion volume to the dictionary, has now also been updated with a second edition. The changes made to each chapter reflect new approaches refined through years of teaching experience. New chapters on 'Numbers and Enumeration' and 'Translating from English to Blackfoot' have been added, as well as new exercises and two new appendixes describing the phonetics of Blackfoot and the design of the alphabet. This second edition of Blackfoot Grammar will be a welcome update not only for those who wish to learn the language, but for all those with an interest in Native Studies and North American linguistics.

Author : James Willard Schultz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806117003
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackfeet and Buffalo written by James Willard Schultz and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of life among the Indians, ed. and with an introduction by K. C. Seele.

Author : Beverly Hungry Wolf
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688004717
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ways of My Grandmothers written by Beverly Hungry Wolf and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-10-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Native American woman creates a hauntingly beautiful tribute to an age-old way of life in this fascinating portrait of the women of the Blackfoot Indians. A captivating tapestry of personal and tribal history, legends and myths, and the wisdom passed down through generations of women, this extraordinary book is also a priceless record of the traditional skills and ways of an ancient culture that is vanishing all too fast. Including many rare photographs, The Ways of My Grandmothers is an authentic contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Native American lore -- and a classic that will speak to women everywhere.

Author : Jason Eaglespeaker
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My First Blackfoot Word Book written by Jason Eaglespeaker and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first word-and-picture book that helps kids (and their adults) learn Blackfoot. Over 40 words - and a pronunciation guide - included!

Author : Donald G. Frantz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487520638
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes written by Donald G. Frantz and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot. This third edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary adds more than 1,100 new entries, major additions to verb stems, and the inclusion of vai, vii, vta, and viti syntactic categories.

Author : Hugh Aylmer Dempsey
Publisher : Calgary : Fifth House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Firewater written by Hugh Aylmer Dempsey and published by Calgary : Fifth House Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1870 and 1875, hundreds of Blackfoot Indians died as a result of the whisky trade, either killed in drunken quarrels, shot by whisky traders, frozen to death while drunk, or from the poisonous effects of the whisky itself. Chiefs lost their authority, people traded everything they owned, and entire communities were decimated. At first, alcohol was only available during visits to the Hudson's Bay or North West Company trading posts, but when Montana traders began to pour unlimited supplies of whisky into Blackfoot camps in exchange for buffalo robes, the Blackfoot were swept into a malestrom of alcohol, violence, and death. Historian Hugh Dempsey offers a comprehensive and highly readable look at the people and history of the trade, the impact on Native peoples, and its effect on US-Canada relations. He includes new research and a thoughtful exploration of the events and circumstances that brought a proud people to their knees.