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Sweating the Lodge 4.3: Information in Formation and the Eternal Braid

In his highly-influential book and lecture series The Truth about Stories, Cherokee knowledge keeper Thomas King begins each story by describing an exchange between two people: “There is a story I know. It’s about the earth and how it floats in space on the back of a turtle. I’ve heard this story many times, and each time Read More

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I love you, I hurt you, I light you on fire: medi(t)ating the sweat lodge

In Research is Ceremony, Opaskwayak Cree knowledge keeper Shawn Wilson asserts that traditional ceremonies are much like new methodological approaches towards research: ceremony stresses the importance of relationships over specialized forms of knowledge.