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Brian Burkhart

Brian Yazzie Burkhart is a Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma citizen and associate professor of philosophy and affiliated faculty in Native American Studies. His work centers around Indigenous concepts of knowing, being, and valuing in relationship to land. He is the author of Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures (Michigan State University Press, 2019).

Essays

Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: On the Nature of the Concept

Indigenizing philosophy through the land then is more than a culturally distinct way of philosophizing… it is a process of decolonization in the form of a revitalization of the relational modes of Indigenous life grounded in land as the relational ground of kinship and human beings as grounded in and inextricably entwined with this relational kinship ground.