Norton-Smith begins his volume by introducing his tribe and clan, and then explains this is “one possible interpretation of American Indian philosophy.” He recognizes that he offers only one interpretation of American Indian philosophy from a distinct bias of a Shawnee educated man. This series is an attempt to open a dialogue between these groups (p. Curry and Waters uphold Vine Deloria’s belief that “academic philosophers have long been held out as those who hold keys to the gates of philosophy, the ‘capstone discipline’ of the Western academy.” But the editors argue that the “Western academy” has excluded “traditional indigenous philosophers” except on an informal basis. North-Smith, a professor of philosophy at Kent State University-Stark and a Shawnee Indian, wrote The Dance of Person and Place as part of the Living Indigenous Philosophies series published by the SUNY Press and edited by Agnes B. Published on H-Environment (October, 2010) Reviewed by Jessie Embry (Brigham Young University) and Farina King (University of Wisconsin) The Dance of Person and Place: One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy.Īlbany: State University of New York Press, 2010.
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