Cree Worldview “From the Inside”

Not all cultures in the world share the dominant conventional view of a secularized, utilitarian, depersonalized nature. Indigenous worldviews are diverse and different from the dominant conventional worldview. The existence of alternative views of the natural environment is important as part of the cultural heritage of humankind. This cultural diversity is akin to biodiversity as the raw material for evolutionarily adaptive responses ( Gadgil 1987 ; Turner and Berkes 2006 ; Gavin et al. 2015 ). This chapter provides a detailed look into the worldview of one North American Indigenous group from the eastern Canadian boreal/subarctic.

Biodiversity · Cultural diversity · Diversity (politics) · Ethnic group · Indigenous · Natural (archaeology) · Traditional knowledge · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Whitehead's Philosophy and Applications