What can the Cree language system tell us about indigenous world views? In this, the second of two sessions with historian, linguist and politician with Metis-Cree elder Keith Goulet, we explore the traditional Cree family or clan system, the link between language and worldview, and implications of aboriginal thought for humanism.
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Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Regina. His main professional interest has been on the evolution and structure of the self. He has also published on the psychological impacts of Indian residential schools, the use of a community development process to combat youth suicide, the construction of the (North American) aboriginal self, the concept of free will in psychotherapy, and male stigma as it affects men’s identity. He is currently President of the New Enlightenment Project: A Canadian Humanist Initiative.