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Insights on First Nations Humanities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2015

James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson
James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson*
Affiliation:
Native Law Centre of Canada, University of Saskatchewan, 101 Diefenbaker Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5B8, Canada
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Abstract

The question of what is humanity and how it is expressed has endless and dynamic answers. My paper is an attempt to construct and explain the answer based on the insights Indigenous humanity expressed in the continent called North America. The four fundamental insights are organised around the concept of creation as ecology, the insights of embodied spirits, the implicate order, and transformation. These complementary insights inform the depth of Indigenous worldview. These insights are replicated and revealed in structure and meaning of Indigenous languages, ceremonies and stories. These cognitive insights suggest a starting point for reflecting about whatever is most significant in Indigenous humanities in curriculum.

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Research Article
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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education , Volume 34 , 2005 , pp. 143 - 152
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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