Urgency of Indigenous Values

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911049139803321
• Autore: Arnold Philip P. <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Syracuse University Press, 2023
• ISBN: 9780815656906; 0815656904
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 p.)
• Disciplina: 299.7
• Soggetti: Indian philosophy; Values; Spirituality; Iroquois Indians - Religion; Indigenous peoples - Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Collaborations in the Heartland of the Haudenosaunee : Determining an Interpretive Location -- Indigenous Values -- Paying Attention -- Habitation -- Exchange -- Discovery and Indigeneity -- Value Change for Survival.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Philip Arnold utilizes a collaborative method, derived from the Two-Row Wampum (1613) and his 40 year relationship with the Haudenosaunee, in exploring the urgent need to understand Indigenous values, support Indigenous Peoples, and to offer a way toward humanitys survival in the face of ecological and environmental catastrophe. Indigenous values connect human beings with the living natural world through ceremonial exchange practices with non-human beings who co-inhabit the homelands. Arnold outlines Indigenous traditions of habitation and ceremonial gift economies and contrasts those with settler-colonial values of commodification where the land and all aspects of material life belongs to human beings and are reduced to monetary use-value.Through an examination of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, a series of fifteenth-century documents that used religious decrees to justify the subjugation and annihilation of Indigenous Peoples, Arnold shows how issues such as ; environmental devastation, social justice concerns, land theft, and forced conversion practices have their origins in settler-colonial relationships with the sacredthat persists today. Designed to initiate a conversation in the classroom, in the academy, and in various communities about what is essential to the category of Indigeneity, this book offers a way of understanding value systems of Indigenous peoples. By pairing the concepts of Indigeneity and religion around competing values systems, Arnold transforms our understanding of both categories.