HTA 20.1; Cordova; How It Is [2007]; I. Bridges; Part One

Abstract

This episode is part one of five of the lecture series [HTA 20] on Section One, “I. Bridges,” of Viola Faye Cordova’s How It Is_ The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova [2007].

Primary Source

Cordova, Viola Faye. How It Is: The Native American Philosophy of V. F. Cordova. Edited by Ted Jojola Kathleen Dean Moore Kurt Peters and Amber Lacy. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.

• HillJ_ Teacher Exemplar Annotations.

Guiding Questions

• Why study Native American philosophy in a course on world religions?

• What do bridges represent for Cordova?

• How are the two processes of bridges interrelated?

• Why start a philosophy text by explaining where one comes from?

• What is the significance of a place of origin to one’s identity?

• What is the significance of one’s identity for one’s survival strategies?

• How are bridges a matter of adaptations and transformations?

YouTube Lecture

YouTube: HTA 20.1; Cordova; How It Is [2007]; I. Bridges; Part One.