The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge

by Donald L. Fixico

Book Overview

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415944570
• ISBN13: 9780415944571
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

"The American Indian Mind in a linear World"

The importance of this book may well be over looked by those who need the information most. Historians, Anthropoligists, and myriad teachers. Finally someone has set to print the causes of many misunderstandings twixt the European mindset and the thought patterns of the Original People (OP). Fixico has accomplished a task long time coming. The neuances that the OP take as givens are all but lost on those bound by linear thinking. The world view of The OP when compared with White European Males (WEMs) is such that one is compareing a handful of dirt (WEMs) while the other (OP) is thinking of the Universe. WEMs have no problem destroying the earth not realizing, as the OP do, that the earth is not all forgiving. WEMs can not wrap their munds around spatial thinking and the OP choose not to do otherwise. The all inclusive universe is considered on all levels by the OP. WEMs do not approach many levels. I'm not quite sure if this can be changed as it takes a great deal of faith in something other than a dollar. I watch in amazement and wonderment at times as people try to understand what I'm saying. Too me everything is connected with everything else. Thanx Fixico and may he always Walk in Beauty. You too