Darcia Narvaez - Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing

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Indigenous Sustainable
Wisdom

First-Nation Know-How for
Global Flourishing

Edited by
Darcia Narvaez,
Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs),
Eugene Halton, Brian S Collier,
and Georges Enderle

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Narvaez, Darcia, editor.
Title: Indigenous sustainable wisdom: first-nation know-how for
global flourishing / edited by Darcia Narvaez, Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs),
Eugene Halton, Brian S Collier, and Georges Enderle.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018052216 | ISBN 978-1-4331-6365-4 (hardback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-6364-7 (paperback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-6008-0 (ebook pdf)
ISBN 978-1-4331-6009-7 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-4331-6010-3 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Indigenous peoples. | Sustainable development
Social aspects. | GlobalizationSocial aspects. | Culture and globalization.
Classification: LCC GN380.I538 2019 | DDC 305.8dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018052216
DOI 10.3726/b14900

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About the author(s)/editor(s)

Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, where she specializes in virtue development and human flourishing. Her book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom, won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award.

Four Arrows (Cherokee/Irish/Oglala), aka Don Trent Jacobs, is Professor of Educational Leadership at Fielding Graduate University. Selected as one of 27 visionaries in education by AERO and recipient of a Martin Springer Institute Moral Courage Award for his activism. He has authored 20 books and numerous chapters and articles on Indigenous worldview.

Eugene Halton is Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He has written extensively on the limitations of the civilizational mindset, and guideposts toward re-attuning contemporary civilization to the poetic wonder of the variescent earth. His most recent book is From the Axial Age to the Moral Revolution.

Brian S Collier is coordinator of supervision and directs the American Indian Catholic Schools Network at the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame.

Georges Enderle is John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of International Business Ethics in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

About the book

Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-How for Global Flourishings contributors describe ways of being that reflect a worldview that has guided humanity for 99% of human history; they describe the practical traditional wisdom stemming from Nature-based relational cultures that were or are guided by this worldview. Such cultures did not cause the kinds of anti-Nature and de-humanizing or inequitable policies and practices that now pervade our world. Far from romanticizing Indigenous histories, Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom offers facts about how human beings, with our potential for good and evil behaviors, can live in relative harmony again. Contributions cover views from anthropology, psychology, sociology, leadership, native science, native history, and native art.

Authentic and deep respect for Indigenous knowledge(s) means keeping it alive and vital, appreciating its urgent necessity for todays times, and interweaving it into the lives of non-Indigenous people. No longer can Indigenous knowledge be marginalized, relegated to the past, or shelved in a museum. As becomes clearer each day, our planet cannot survive without its inhabitants learning to live in harmony with Mother Earth, as Indigenous wisdom teaches. The diverse chapters in this book offer ways to make this vision a reality for right now and lasting into the future.

Susan Roberta Katz, Professor, International and Multicultural Education, University of San Francisco

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We dedicate the energy and contributions gathered here to the wellbeing of the
next seven generations, and beyond.

Contents

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: Horse engraved on a bone from Creswell Crags

: The Mller-Lyer Illusion

: Henry Adams, the increase in power over time

: The Contractions of Mind

: Three Governance Models, schematically shows lines of authority in statist, confederated, and community relationships

: Shows the complex intertwinings of Blood (clans) and Breath (nations) binding the Confederacies into strong units

: Tlingit Kwaan Territories

: Lukaax.di crest blanket

: Hinyaa Tlingit petroglyph

: Owls original long beak

: Hierarchy of Dependence

: Eight Attributes of Connection

: The Connected Self

: The 64 Cultural Elements

: Models of Trans-Cultural Facilitation

: Intersection of Aspects Resulting in Eight Attributes

: Picto-Poem Dreams of Water Bodies

: Picto-Poem A Crane Language

: Picto-Poem Of the many ways to say: Please Stand

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We thank the courageous Indigenous Peoples, often unrecognized, who have fought against all odds to maintain humanitys original ways of knowing. We especially thank the generous support of The Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi (Pokgnek Bodwadmik) upon whose traditional homeland, for thousands of years, the University of Notre Dame is placed. This book (and the conference from which it emerged) was also made possible in part by support from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame and from many entities across the university. We thank the following units at the University of Notre Dame:

Center for Arts and Cultures

Center for Social Concerns

College of Science, Nieuwland Lecture Series

Department of American Studies

Department of Anthropology

Department of Art, Art History & Design

Department of English

Department of History

Department of Psychology

Department of Sociology xi | xii

Department of Theology

Eck Institute for Global Health

Environmental Change Initiative

Gender Studies Program

The Graduate School

Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Educational Initiatives

John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology & Values

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies