The Dance of Person and Place: One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy

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Index 159 8 system, 29–31 Adena, 130 Alford, Thomas Wildcat, 6, 103, 104, 142n8 Algonquin: concept of number, 150n3; exchanges, 149n9; languages, 7, 22, 42, 86, 88, 148n4; spatial and temporal cycles, 126 American Indian epistemology. See American Indian knowledge American Indian knowledge: and relatedness, 55–63; and truth, 63–68; 55–76; and ultimate acceptability, 74–76; and verification, 68–74 American Indian Philosophical Association, 3 American Indian philosophy. See American Indian world version American Indian world version: and animate beings, 86–94; and circularity, 14, 119–133; constructs a well-made world, 1–2, 14, 51–54, 74, 138; as a dance of person and place, 1, 135–138; equality of human beings and animals in, 11; and knowledge, 56; and moral universe principle, 61; no analogue of Western philosophy, 4; no distinction between natural and supernatural, 83–84, 87; not monolithic, 3; and nonemptiness, 51, 61–62, 75, 86; and organization of experience, 48–49; and persons, 86–94; philosophical importance of, 16; as a rational reconstruction, 1, 6–9; and relatedness, 10, 48–49, 58–59; reliable sources, 5–6; and the semantic potency of performance, 11–12, 95–117; and spirits, 86–94; time and space, 120; and utility, 50, 61; and verification, 70–72 Anasazi, xiv animate beings. See spirits Apache, 82 appearance and reality, 18, 70–71 Aristotle, 1, 18, 144n7 barter, 105–108, 110–111, 149n9. See also gifting Bear Butte, 128 Berkeley, George, 20, 21, 142n1, 144n8 Black Elk Speaks (Black Elk, Neihardt): Black Road’s prayer, 99; bison ceremony, 115–117; and circularity, 127–128; dog vision, 99; Drinks Water, 69–70, 71; great vision, 12, 19, 69, 71, 115, 127–128; heyoka ceremony, 74, 99; horse dance, 12–13, 60; and metamorphosis, 89; and relatedness, 90–93; sacred hoop, 127; sacred pipe, 98, 126; as a source, 4–5, 141–142n6; and truth, 68; and verification, 73–74; White Buffalo Woman, 68, 91 Black Hills, 13, 128 Black Hoof, v, 67–68, 146n6 Blackfoot, 82 160 Index boarding schools, 6 Brouwer, L. E. J., 44 Burkhart, Brian, 4, 57, 60–63, 72–73, 75, 146n2 Byers, A. M., 130, 132 Cajete, Gregory, xii, 47, 49, 62 Callicott, J. Baird, 88, 122 Cartwright, Nancy, 34 de las Casas, Bartolomé, 15 ceremonial worlds, 148–149n3 Cheney, Jim, 57, 94, 141n2, 146n5, 148n3, 149–150n12 Cherokee, 2, 3, 146–147n8 Choctaw, 2, 142n10 circularity: and knowledge, 127; of life, xiii; and sacred places, 128–133; and spatial/temporal ordering, 125, 127, 132–133; as a world-ordering principle, 1, 3, 9, 14, 117, 119, 120–133, 135, 137, 152n4 collecting, 41–43, 96–97, 148n1. See also world-constructing processes composition, 23, 26, 39, 40, 58, 119, 136. See also world-constructing processes constellations, 122–123 constructive realism, 16, 19, 39–43, 51, 136, 139, 148n1 constructivism: fundamental tenet, 6; and Goodman, 17–37, 61, 96, 119, 136, 138, 141n2; and Kant, 18. See also constructive realism Cordova, Viola, 92, 147–148n3 Cornstalk, 67 Cowan, C. W., 130 “Coyote, Iktome, and the Rock,” 82–83, 100, 112 Crawford, Col. William, 135 creativity as an ordering principle, 47, 63, 136 Creek, 94, 95, 96, 125, 133 Crow, 133 cultural frame of reference, 52–55, 61, 70, 75, 120, 136 cultural relativism, 138–139 Curry, Agnes, xiv Davis, Edwin, 130–131. See also Squier, Ephraim decomposition, 23, 26, 39, 40, 58, 119, 136. See also world-constructing processes Delaware. See Lenni Lenape Deloria, Vine, Jr.: on academic philosophy, xii; on animate beings, 89; on Black Elk Speaks, 4, 141– 142n6; on ceremonies, 114, 128–129; on a cultural frame of reference, 52–53; on induction, 45–46; on knowledge, 6, 57; about Iktome, 83; incommensurability of Native and Western traditions, 120–121; on a moral universe, 49; no distinction between appearance and reality, 71; no distinction between natural and supernatural, 84; on persons, 78, 148n6; on relatedness, 9–10, 48–49, 58, 145n4, 148n6; on sacred places, 13–14, 120–121, 128–129, 132; on spirits, 89, 91; on tribal religions and Christianity, 121; on verification, 68–69 Dennett, Daniel, 79, 80 Denny, J. Peter, 42 denotation, 22 Descartes, René, 1, 20–21, 146n7 Dine, 98, 99, 133 Eastman, Charles, 6, 65–66, 100 Ecuyer, Capt. Simeon, 64 ethical relativism, 138–139 events, Western concept, 120–122 facts, fabrication of, 16, 18–26, 32, 35, 39, 53, 57, 70, 96, 119, 135 Fixico, Donald: on abstraction, 150n3; on circles and cycles, 9, 14...