NATAMST 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Plants And Animals, Empiricism

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NATAMST 151
• Professor: Diane Pearson

Document Summary

Fixico notes: american indian mind linear world ibofanga. Muscogee creek: the spiritual energy in all things; therefore, all things should be respected for their potential & that therefore, all things are capable of possessing spiritual energy. Indian thinking is seeing & listening: durational time. Mixed-blood usually an american indian with non-native ancestry. Often schooled outside of reservation; often serve as the middle man ; may often be christian. Traditional never assumes that people, societies, cultures & worldviews do not change. Traditional often refers to non-christian american indians who sought/seek the red road . Perspective emphasizing circles & cycles central to the world. Native thinking: native realities consist of a physical & a metaphysical world. Seeing things = visualizing the connection between two or more entities or beings. Trying to understand the relationship between them within the full context of things identified within a culturally based system.