Required Reading List
for Concepts of Knowledge:
This list of all the required reading for the Knowledge Study Guide is placed here for your convenience, however we suggest that you actually do the reading when indicated in the text:
Required Reading 1: Ward Churchill, "Spiritual Hucksterism" (Extracted from Fantasies of the Master Race)
Required Reading 2: Aroha Mead, "Genealogy, Sacredness and the Commodities Market" (Extracted from Cultural Survival Quarterly )
Required Reading 3: Victoria Tauli-Corpus, "We Are Part of Biodiversity, Respect Our Rights" (Extracted from Third World Resurgence)
Required Reading 4: Stephen Marglin, "Toward the Decolonization of the Mind" (Extracted from Dominating Knowledge)
Required Reading 5: Vandana Shiva, "The 'Disappeared' Knowledge Systems' (Extracted from Monocultures of the Mind)
Required Reading 6: UNESCO
Required Reading 7: Wilcomb Washburn, "Distinguishing History from Moral Philosophy and Public Advocacy" (Extracted from The American Indian and the Problem of History.)
Required Reading 8: Gregory Cajete, "Philosophy of Native Science" (Extracted from Native Science)
Required Reading 9: Terry Tafoya, "Circles and Cedar: Native American Epistemology and Clinical Issues" (Extracted from a conference paper)
Required Reading 10: Terry Tafoya, "Coyote's Eyes: Native Cognition Styles" (Extracted from the Journal of American Indian Education)
Required Reading 11: Robert Williams, "Representing Race: Vampires Anonymous and Critical Race Practice" (Extracted from the Michigan Law Review)
Required Reading 12: Vine Deloria, "Relativity, Relatedness and Reality", "If You Think About It, You Will See That It Is True", and "Ethnoscience and Indian Realities" (Extracted from Spirit & Reason)
Required Reading 13: E. Doyle McCarthy, "The sociology of knowledge and culture" (Extracted from Knowledge as Culture)
Some Relevant Web Sites:
Aboriginal Star
Knowledge
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stars/starmenu.html
Alaska Native
Knowledge Network
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/rights.html
American Indian
Science and Engineering Society
http://www.aises.org
Dene Cultural
Institute
http://www.deneculture.org/
Human Genome Diversity
Project articles from NATIVE-L
http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/hgdp.html
Indigenous Peoples,
Genes and Genetics: What Indigenous People Should Know About Biocolonialism
http://www.ipcb.org/publications/primers/index.html
Native American
Indian Education About Tribal Voice
http://www.tribal.com/heyoka.htm
Repatriation and
Reburial Issues
http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eanthro/reburial/repat.htm
The Roots of NAGPRA:
Steve Russell
http://archaeology.tqn.com/science/archaeology/library/weekly/aa083197.htm
RAFI (Rural Advancement
Foundation International)
http://www.rafi.org/main.asp
Seeds of Strength
for Hopis & Zunis
http://www.ciesin.org/docs/004-190/004-190.html
Techniques for
Evaluating American Indian Websites
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ecubbins/webcrit.html
WWW Virtual Library
- American Indians
Index of Native American Indigenous Knowledge Resources on the Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAknowledge.html
1054 Supernova
Petrography in Chaco Canyon
http://www.chaco.com/park/archaeology/nebula.html
Supplementary Readings:
These readings are not required but are considered particularly relevant to the issues raised in the study guide and may be useful in the writing of essays or simply for further explanation.
See Reference Finder. Keyword=knowledge-bib1. This keyword will produce a bibliography for supplementary reading of special relevance to the Knowledge Study Guide.
Note: following items, along with other references, to be incoporated into the Reference Finder under key word=knowledge-bib1.
Arun Agrawal, "Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge: some critical comments" (Extracted from Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor)
Walter Echo-Hawk, "Museum Rights vs. Indian Rights: Guidelines for Assessing Competing Legal Interests in Native Cultural Resources" in Review of Law and Social Change.
Debra Harry, "The Human Genome Diversity Project and Its Implications for Indigenous Peoples" (Extracted from Indigenous Woman)
Terry Tafoya, "Coyote's Eyes: Native Cognition Styles" in Journal of American Indian Education
Grimaldo Rengifo Vasquez, "Pratec: In the Andes, Nurturance is at the Heart of Life" (Extracted From Daybreak Magazine) Available at http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/9508/0073.html