Indigenous Everyday Life in Chatman’s Small World Theories

Indigenous communities are connected through their worldview or commonly held way of seeing everyday life. In this article we will describe the intersection, match, and mismatch Chatman’s theories information poverty, life in round how these might be incorporated—or not—in understanding contemporary indigenous living. Within theory consider four notions defining an impoverished lifeworld: secrecy, deception, risk taking, situational relevance. Secrecy deception interpreted as negatives by outsiders when boundaries maintained around access to traditional cultural knowledge its expression. community, though, such behaviors observances protocol expected behavior. Risk taking may welcomed applauded but also result individual Native taker stepping into interface frame being outsider, someone who is now separated from trial community. Relevance contextual peoples terms ability support tribal sovereignty.
 Theory Life Round presents individuals find fulfillment lives understood concepts worldview, societal norms, small worlds settings, roles social types which people assigned. These can seen connection land clan kinship models. Our close within framework Cajete’s model a fulfilled one where true face, heart, foundation.
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 Pre-print published online 6/22/2021