2014 Summer
Note: this is an iconoclastic usage of the term “American Classical.”
Popol Vuh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popol_Vuh
Classical American Rendering of Creation Struggles
Prof Notes
http://wpscape.info/mw/index.php?title=Popol_Vuh
Some more notes on the Popol Vuh
Christenson Translation
http://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/index.html
Click on “English Translation” to get a free pdf. Translation begins on page 50.
Dekanawidah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Peacemaker
Background info
Iroquois Constitution
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/iroquois.asp
Originally preserved in the form of Wampum
Text with HTML TOC
http://www.humanistictexts.org/dekanawidah.htm
An American Constitution
Franklin’s Report on Canassatego’s Advice to the American Colonies
http://www.smithsoniansource.org/display/primarysource/viewdetails.aspx?PrimarySourceId=1195
Dispatch on political theory reported by a young journalist and diplomat
Canassatego on Education
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/nativeamericans/chiefcanasatego.htm
Compare Washington v DuBois, Freire, Dewey, Montessori, Woodson, Confucius, Plato . . .
Black Elk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Elk
Black Elk Speaks
http://www.firstpeople.us/articles/Black-Elk-Speaks/Black-Elk-Speaks-Index.html
Facts of cultural decimation as witnessed by an indomitable spirit
Vine Deloria, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vine_Deloria,_Jr.
The Metaphysics of Modern Existence
http://www.amazon.com/Metaphysics-Modern-Existence-Vine-Deloria-ebook/dp/B00AXS5R5W
Amazon Books by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Try this or go to Amazon and search by author name.
Jung and Sioux Traditions
http://indigenouspolicy.org/index.php/ipj/article/view/15
“Different than the Sioux ‘Jung does not imagine that [stones and] animals could, in and of themselves, be helpful to humans’”
Gloria Anzaldua
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_E._Anzald%C3%BAa
Borderlands / La Frontera
“The Homeland Aztlan”
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24132651/Borderlands-La-Frontera-Anzaldua
“How to Tame a Wild Tongue”
http://www.scribd.com/josie_wang/d/68529218-Anzaldua-How-to-Tame-a-Wild-Tongue
keywords: Coatlicue / Nepantla / la Facultad / nahual / mestiza / mestizaje / queer theory
Database suggestion
Starik, Mark. “Should Trees Have Managerial Standing? Toward Stakeholder Status For Non-Human Nature.” Journal Of Business Ethics 3 (1995): 207. JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI. Web. 5 Jan. 2014.
Note: title of article is reference to work of Christopher Stone, mentioned with admiration by Deloria in the intro to Metaphysics.
Dussell
http://enriquedussel.com/philosophy.html
Defiantly centered in the American experience
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