Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi
Betty Bastien
Religion & Spirituality
Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi
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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. 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.

Language
English
ISBN
978-1-55238-745-0
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Blackfoot (Siksikaitsipowahsin) Pronunciation Key
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 to 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
Glossaries
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