Americans Native Culture

Americans Native Culture

While there will never be and has never been one definitive worldview that comprises any one Native American culture (let alone hundreds), many Native people seem to agree upon certain values and ways of seeing and experiencing the world as characteristic. In presenting an emerging picture of Native worldview today it is helpful to consider ideas of past Native worldviews. M. A. Jaimes summarizes the prevailing markers of traditional” Native American identity. She draws this view of indigenism” from the work of Jerry Mander, who sees Native American worldview as corrective of our own, misguided, mainstream American ...