The Eagle
Aboriginal Spirituality
On the Prairies
Cree, Crow, Mandan, Oto
Lakota,Winnibego, Omaha
Blackfoot, Sarsi, Nez Pierce
Prairie First Nations
Alberta
Idaho
Saskatchewan
Montana North Dakota
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico Nebraska
Texas
Manitoba
Minnesota Wisconsin
South Dakota
Kansas
Iowa
Missouri
Oklahoma
Prairie First Nations
Illinois
Arkansas
Nomadic hunters
General
Prairies
Cultural
Patterns
Istos
Histos: A net or web
- history
- histology
Pattern One: Histolic
Living
Native Families
Family: persons united by ancestry,
marriage, or adoption, living together to
survive.
Nuclear Family: a parent or parents
.
living with their biological children
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Tiospaye
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Reciprocity between-+PERSONS
+OTHER NATIONS (plants & animals)
+EARTH
+SPIRIT WORLD
HISTOLIC THEME
Implications for
practice?
PATTERN TWO:
A Unitive Cosmos
THE WEST
PHYSICAL
SPIRITUAL
PATTERN TWO:
A Unitive Cosmos
THE WEST
PHYSICAL
Native Ways
SPIRITUAL
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PHYSICAL
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PATTERN TWO:
A Unitive Cosmos
eg.
Handshaking
Fire making
Requesting
Economics
PATTERN THREE
Noninterference Living
PATTERN FOUR
Heart Thinking
THE WEST
Mind thinking
1. Definition of terms
2. Proper sequence
3. Logic
PATTERN FOUR
Heart Thinking
THE WEST
Mind thinking
NATIVE WAYS
Heart thinking
1. Definition of terms
2. Proper sequence
3. Logic
1. Symbol, Ceremony
2. Repetition
3. Impressionism
PATTERN FOUR
Heart Thinking
THE WEST
Mind thinking
1. Definition of terms
2. Proper sequence
3. Logic
4. Systematic Thought
NATIVE WAYS
Heart thinking
1. Symbol, Ceremony
2. Repetition
3. Impressionism
PATTERN FOUR
Heart Thinking
THE WEST
Mind thinking
NATIVE WAYS
Heart thinking
1. Definition of terms
2. Proper sequence
3. Logic
4. Systematic Thought
1. Symbol, Ceremony
2. Repetition
3. Impressionism
4. Specific, separated
concepts.
PATTERN FOUR
Heart Thinking
PATTERN FIVE
APOPHATIC THOUGHT
THE WEST
Cataphatic thought
defines and explains
what is known or
understood
PATTERN FIVE
APOPHATIC THOUGHT
THE WEST
NATIVE WAYS
Cataphatic thought
defines and explains
what is known or
understood
Apophatic thought
prefers not to define
nor to explain, leaves
much unstated.
PATTERN FIVE
APOPHATIC THOUGHT
PATTERN SIX
Singularity
THE WEST
Governance:
Monos-Arche
Family: Monogamy
Cosmos: Universe
Conclusion: Singular
PATTERN SIX
Singularity
THE WEST
Governance:
Monos-Arche
Family: Monogamy
Cosmos: Universe
Conclusion: Singular
FIRST NATIONS
Governance: Polyarchy
Family: Polygamy
Cosmos: Multiverse
Conclusion: Multiple
Realities
PATTERN SIX
Singularity Multiplicity
Many different Aboriginal
ways of living