Thinkers and Scholars
This writer believes that Indigenous epistemology is simple. It's Storytelling.
Who is Chad Valdez
These two pillars are what Valdez feels that Indigenous Epistemology is built on.
What are storytelling and experience
These types of stories are essential in Indigenous communities because they talk about where a community comes from.
What are creation stories?
According to Valdez, this worldview is the dominant mode of epistemology in many countries around the world.
What is western ways of thinking?
This word means the study of what knowledge is and where it comes from.
What is epistemology?
This scholar believes that stories told by Indigenous people come from direct experiences as opposed to simply stating facts.
Who is F David Peat?
According to Peat, knowledge is not a dead collection of facts but alive with this.
What is spirit?
According to Fixico, along with time, place, character, and events, this is the fifth part of stories.
What is purpose?
According to Valdez, Indigenous knowledge is all interconnected and interrelated whereas western knowledge tends to do this.
This is another word for background information.
What is context?
This scholar stated that the common setting, the land in which stories take place, means that context isn't always necessary when storytelling.
Who is Richard Atleo?
Unlike western epistemology, Indigenous epistemology does not require this.
Not only is oral storytelling important for passing down knowledge and experience, it is vital in this way.
What is holding communities together?
According to Fixico, whereas Indigenous Peoples rely on the importance of experience and the orality of that experience being passed on, Americans rely on this.
What is factual interpretation of history and deeds?
This word refers to the part of the mind that is not aware (awake).
What is subconscious?
This scholar wrote about how stories teach the listener how to care for the land and how land can never be owned.
Who is Donald L. Fixico?
In an indigenous worldview, knowledge cannot be given. It must be learned through observing, watching, listening, and this.
What is dreaming?
What is the theme?
According to Peat, indigenous stories come from direct experiences while the western world relies on simply stating these.
What are facts?
This word refers to a memorable statement expressing a general truth or fundamental principle
What is maxim?
This scholar discusses the interrelatedness of everything and how it doesn't make sense in the Indigenous worldview to separate knowledge into categories.
Who is Brian Yazzie Burkhart?
According to Burkhart, what is the most essential knowledge that is shared for Indigenous people?
What is the experience being shared?
According to Atleo, expected knowledge within a story can be described as this.
What is knowledge of the setting?
What is linear?
This word refers to the scientific and cultural research and higher education community, taken as a whole.
What is academia?