Huckleberries
Reiterate "Heart Knowledge" – Indigenous Epistemology
1. Ashammaléaxia -
“as driftwood lodges” - Chnis-teem-ilqwes – “I am part of all”,
all in temporal and spatial kinship - relationship
2.
Snq-hepi-wes - “where the spirit lives, from horizon to horizon”,
embedded within are
perennial miyp –
“teachings” - “the
bones” – the ontological principles.
The realm of
Amotqn
-
“the one who sits at the head mountain” -
Akbaatatdía
"maker of all things first", and
Iilapxe – “Medicine Fathers,” -
Titwa-tityá-ya – “Animal/First
Peoples”
3. Unshat-qn
- “eye-to-eye”, all in equitable, balanced relationships
4. Té∙k’e - “to give and share [food with others]”,
ethic of sharing, the dynamic in the relationships
= non-Cartesian Dualism, non-Aristotelian Materialism,
non-hierarchical/non-hegemonic
= with all phenomena in temporal and spatial relationality, reality is an unfolding event, the transitory intersection of those participating, be they human, animal, rock, ancestor, spirit peoples
e.g., what constitutes a “rainbow”?
5. KEY (and acknowledging elusive and inappropriate to offer a “formal definition of the process”): The act of basbaaaliíchiwé – “re-telling one’s story” (in re-enacting the oral traditions, narratives, rituals, aesthetics, architecture, etc.), of putting all this together (1. – 4.), can reveal/manifest Súumesh – Wéyekin – Baaxpée – “spiritual animation, force, power” - “medicine” (linked via relationship with Iilapxe - Titwa-tityá-ya – Amotqn - Akbaatatdía)
This is the “swirling with Chipmunk and Coyote, as they talk to you, dance with you,” “the Water from the Tree,” “the Blue of Lake Coeur d’Alene,” “the bullets removed” – a hierophany, “the shining through of the sacred”
Aligning, the transitory intersection of those participating, with the “bones”