- This event has passed.
Bow Valley Naturalists, the Luxton Foundation and the Whyte Museum present Leroy Little Bear: A Metaphysical Blackfoot Perspective on Sustainability
March 22, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Tuesday March 22 7:30 p.m. at the Whyte Museum. Limited live seating available or sign up on Zoom.
From Leroy:
“You wake up every morning to what you think is ‘reality’……. ‘this is the way it is’. We never think about the underlying foundational basis for what we think is real. There may be an objective reality ‘out there’. But paraphrasing Stephen Weinberg, a quantum physicist, an objective reality exists out there but, as soon as you put a human being in the picture, the human being puts a human interpretation on it. So it is no longer an objective reality. It is simply an interpretation. Why does this happen?
All societies at one time or another claim a territory. Over time, through mutual relationship with the totality of the territory, a culture arises. As part of the culture, interpretive criteria we call metaphysics/paradigms are developed. These become the society’s interpretive tools. One society’s interpretive tools are going to be different from another because of different environmental and geographical settings. Therefore, different notions about nature and sustainability arise. The presentation will speak to these differences and their ramifications.”
This program is FREE. The presentation will be both in person at the Whyte Museum and on Zoom, it begins at 7:30 p.m. MST. Online Registration is required for both in person and online attendance. To register please click HERE.
If you are joining in virtually, the Zoom link will be listed on your email confirmation.
Please note masks are recommended indoors.