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You're listening to the Partial Examined Life, a podcast by some guys

who had one point said I'm doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 173 is something like, what is wisdom?

We read three articles from the 2004 collection, American Indian Thought.

What coyote and thailies can teach us an outline of Native American epistemology

by Brian Yazzie Burkhart.

The second was philosophy and native science by Gregory Cajete.

And the third was language matters, a metaphysic of non-descreet non-binary dualism by handwaters.

We also read chapter 17 from Black Elk Speaks by John Nihard from 1932.

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This is Mark Linton Meyer, broadcasting from my flaming rainbow teepee

in the moon where calves grow hair in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin facing south in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Allwine in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is a very square place.

This is Dylan Casey wishing I picked the blue feather suit in Middleton, Wisconsin.

And this is Jim Maroonick from Nashville, Tennessee via Buffalo, New York,

where I'm currently sitting.

Welcome, Jim. Glad to be here.

Jim, you had contacted me about something unrelated through our contact page

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