Books
Native American Worldviews: An Introduction by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2002This excellent introduction to the many diverse yet related American Indian worldviews will be a welcome resource for teachers of introductory courses in Native American Studies or philosophy of religion, as well as laypersons with an interest in native cultures.
The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2008Native Americans and Canadians are largely romanticised or sidelined figures in modern society. Their spirituality has been appropriated on a relatively large scale by Europeans and non-Native Americans, with little concern for the diversity of Native American opinions. Suzanne Owen offers an insight into appropriation that will bring a new understanding and perspective to these debates.
I Become Part of It: Sacred Dimensions in native American Life by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2002This collection of essays and stories, many of which first appeared in Parabola magazine, range from descriptions of traditional Native American lifestyles and sacred rituals to startlingly apt prophesies of the coming of Europeans and descriptions of the struggle to live the traditional Native teachings in a world that has gone in a very different direction.Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders by
Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 1990Interviews with religious leaders from various Indian tribes share their world views.
Indian from the Inside: Native American Philosophy and Cultural Renewal by Call Number: Click title to check availabilityPublication Date: 2011The first edition of this historical and philosophical work was written as a text for the first course in Native philosophy ever offered by a philosophy department at a Canadian university. This revised edition, based on more than twenty-five years of research through the Native Philosophy Project and funded in part by the Rockefeller Foundation, is expanded to include extensive discussion of Native American philosophy and culture in the United States as well as Canada.
