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Articles

Decolonizing Curriculum

Pages 193-204 | Published online: 07 Jan 2015
 

Abstract

An essay review of

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

(Allen, Paula Gunn. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986/1992)

Notes

Notes

1 A word about terminology in this essay. I use the term Indigenous to refer both to Indigenous peoples globally, as well as Indigenous peoples of North America. I use the term American Indian in this essay because that was the term Allen uses to refer to the various tribes of the Americas. I use other terms (such as Native American) when such terms are commonly used in a specific context I am referring to.

2 Allen defines Thought Woman as “the true creatrix for she is thought itself, from which all else is born” (p. 14). Indian tribes’ accounts of the origin of all things vary, but most name a quintessential intelligent spirit who, in most cases, is female.

3 Allen mentions links between the U.S. Constitution and the Iroquois White Roots of Peace, links that are documented in detail by CitationGrinde and Johansen (1991).

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