"Dr. Joe challenges the reader to examine both Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal approaches to the world and demonstrates the differences
between Indigenous knowledge and Western thought." -Ed Buller
Description
Joseph Couture (1930–2007), known affectionately as “Dr.
Joe,” stood at the centre of some of the greatest political,
social, and intellectual struggles of Aboriginal peoples in
contemporary Canada. A profound thinker and writer, as well as a gifted
orator, he easily walked two paths, as a respected Elder and
traditional healer and as an educational psychologist, one of the first
Aboriginal people in Canada to receive a PhD. A Metaphoric
Mind brings together for the first time key works selected from
among Dr. Joe’s writings, published and unpublished. Shaped by
his social science training but also by his apprenticeship in Medicine
Ways, his writings allow us to experience the richness and power of
fully functional Indigenous culture.