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.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Preface 11
- Blackfoot (Siksikaitsipowahsin) Pronunciation Key 19
- I. Context 24
- 1. Introduction 24
- 2. Innahkootaitsinnika'topi – History of the Blackfoot-Speaking Tribes 30
- 2.1 Introductory Remarks 30
- 2.2 Iitotasimahpi Iimitaiks – The Era of the Dog or the Time of the Ancestors (Pre-Eighteenth Century) 31
- 2.3 Ao'ta'sao'si Ponokaomita – The Era of the Horse (Eighteenth Century to 1880) 37
- 2.4 Ao'maopao'si – From when we settled in one place (1880) to today 42
- 3. Cultural Destruction – Policies of Ordinary Genocide 49
- II. Tribal Protocol and Affirmative Inquiry 58
- 4. Niinohkanistssksinipi – Speaking Personally 58
- 5. Traditional Knowledge in Academe 67
- 6. Cultural Affirmation 74
- 7. Protocol of Affirmative Inquiry 86
- III. Affirmation of Indigenous Knowledge 100
- 8. Kakyosin – Traditional Knowledge 100
- 9. Kiitomohpiipotoko – Ontological Responsibilities 107
- 10. Siksikaitsitapi Ways of Knowing – Epistemology 121
- 11. Knowledge is Coming to Know Ihtsipaitapiiyo'pa 134
- 12. Kakyosin/Mokaksin – Indigenous Learning 142
- 13. Niitsi'powahsinni – Language 150
- 14. Aipommotsspistsi – Transfers 163
- 15. Kaaahsinnooniksi – Grandparents 170
- IV. Conclusion: Renewal of Ancestral Responsibilities as Antidote to Genocide 174
- 16. Deconstructing the Colonized Mind 174
- 17. Eurocentred and Niitsitapi Identity 188
- 18. Reflections and Implications 195
- Afterword: Remembering Ancestral Conversations 207
- Glossaries 217
- Siksikaitsipowahsin–English 217
- A 217
- I 223
- K 227
- M 231
- N 232
- O 235
- P 236
- S 237
- T 238
- W 239
- English–Siksikaitsipowahsin 239
- A 239
- B 239
- C 241
- D 242
- E 243
- F 244
- G 244
- H 246
- I 246
- K 247
- L 247
- M 248
- O 249
- P 249
- R 250
- S 251
- T 252
- U 253
- V 253
- W 253
- Y 253
- Bibliography 254
