GREGORY CAJETE
Interdependence and the Creative Process: An Indigenous Perspective
Wed 25 Sep, 4.30 – 6pm, all welcome Dalhousie Building, 3G02 Lecture Theatre 1
The Indigenous worldview is rooted in a pan-species epistemology.
It cultivates axiological relationships of humans to the natural world through an inclusive taxonomy of ‘being alive’ where everything – plants, rocks, minerals, lakes, and deserts – has its own intelligence |and creative process.
In Native Science causality reflects the belief that cause and effect go beyond the physical principles to include the transformation of energy to other forms. The state of flux and its constantly re-forming cycles of interaction are creative.
The task of humans is to find an epistemic-experiential entrance into enfoldment and the flux of the world.
Gregory Cajete is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Native American Studies Programme at the University of New Mexico. He is a renowned author and artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, widely known for his work on culturally based science. His books include Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education (1993); Igniting the Sparkle: An Indigenous Science Model (1999); Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence (2000); Critical Neurophysiology and Indigenous Wisdom (2010); and Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire (2015).