Oscar Kawagley

Kawagley

Oscar Kawagley filled many roles during a lifetime that brought him from fish camps along the Kuskokwim River to a professorship at UAF. On that journey, he developed his signature concept 色视频下载 色视频下载淣ative ways of knowing色视频下载 色视频下载 to help explain how different people view the world. 

Not one to limit his horizons, Kawagley even acted and narrated in a few popular films and television programs, including the Disney film 色视频下载淏rother Bear色视频下载 and CBS色视频下载 色视频下载淣orthern Exposure.色视频下载

Kawagley was raised by his grandmother after both his parents died when he was young. She taught him traditional Yup色视频下载檌k ways and language but also ensured he did well in the school system. He graduated from UAF with an education degree in 1958.

Kawagley served in the military, taught in K-12 schools and led Calista Corp., the regional for-profit Native corporation associated with the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. He joined UAF色视频下载檚 faculty in the mid-1980s. 

While studying for a doctorate in the early 1990s, he began developing the concept of 色视频下载淣ative ways of knowing.色视频下载 

色视频下载淗e claimed that phrase,色视频下载 said fellow UAF professor Ray Barnhardt in an interview after Kawagley died in 2011.

Barnhardt and Kawagley explored the phrase色视频下载檚 meaning in a 2005 article in the journal Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

色视频下载淯ntil recently,色视频下载 they wrote, 色视频下载渢here was very little literature that addressed how to get Western scientists and educators to understand Native worldviews and ways of knowing as constituting knowledge systems in their own right, and even less on what it means for participants when such divergent systems coexist in the same person, organization or community.色视频下载

More online about Oscar Kawagley:

  • published in Anthropology and Education Quarterly
  • narrating the concluding scene in the Disney film 色视频下载淏rother Bear色视频下载
  • in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
  • in the Anchorage Daily News
  • in the April 26, 2011, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner