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Indigenous Thought

Thinkers and essays gathered around this school of thought.

7Thinkers
1Thoughts
16Major Works
20Archive Entries
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Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Examines decolonizing research, Indigenous methodology, knowledge extraction, education, and who controls the questions.

“Research is probably one of the dirtiest words in the Indigenous world’s vocabulary.”
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1950–present

Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Examines decolonizing research, Indigenous methodology, knowledge extraction, education, and who controls the questions.

Education · Indigenous Thought · Postcolonial Thought
1965–present

Shawn Wilson

Develops relational accountability, Indigenous research paradigms, ceremony, knowledge, and responsibility to all relations.

Education · Ethics · Indigenous Thought
1971–present

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Explores resurgence, land as pedagogy, Indigenous feminism, refusal, story, song, and alternatives to colonial recognition.

Ecology · Feminist Thought · Indigenous Thought
1933–2005

Vine Deloria Jr.

Challenges colonial law, Christian mission history, scientific authority, land, sovereignty, and Indigenous intellectual self-definition.

Indigenous Thought · Political Philosophy · Postcolonial Thought
1959–present

Winona LaDuke

Connects land back, food sovereignty, Indigenous economics, feminism, ecology, treaties, and resistance to extractive systems.

Ecology · Feminist Thought · Indigenous Thought
1953–present

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Bridges botany, Indigenous knowledge, reciprocity, language, gratitude, ecology, and the ethics of relation with the living world.

Ecology · Ethics · Indigenous Thought
1930–present

Oren Lyons

Reflects on Indigenous diplomacy, seventh-generation responsibility, sovereignty, ecology, peace, and the moral limits of modern power.

Ecology · Ethics · Indigenous Thought
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