WAHINKPE TOPA (FOUR ARROWS), aka Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D., is internationally respected for his research and publications about Indigenous worldviews. Formerly Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College and tenured Associate Professor of Education at Northern Arizona University, he is currently a professor with Fielding Graduate University. Selected as one of 27 "Visionaries in Education," he is author of 21 books, half of which are about Indigenous Worldview applications for education, sustainability, wellness and justice. DARCIA NARVAEZ, PhD, MDiv, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, classroom music teacher, classroom Spanish teacher and seminarian, among others. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association and former editor of the Journal of Moral Education. Narvaez has written numerous publications, including more than 20 books. She has given presentations, lectures and workshops in 23 countries; was recently named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and in a 2020 analysis, emerged in the top 2% of scientists worldwide.
“Humans have a particular ecological niche, a role as the custodial
species of this earth. We must return our species to this niche
within the next decade, or perish. This book is a perfect place to
start—the foundation is good relations, making kin both human and
nonhuman—and here we have story from a gathering of some of the
finest Indigenous thinkers on the planet. Four Arrows and Darcia
Narvaez have a particular way of bringing the right people together
for such purposes.”
—TYSON YUNKAPORTA, author of Sand Talk, senior research fellow at
Deacon University, woodcarver, and poet
“Mahalo Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez for this collection, this
eloquence and grace through time so we can recognize and honor the
common sense and purpose of continuity. All of it is needed now. We
are all meant to wake up together.”
—MANULANI ALULI MEYER, director of Indigenous education, University
of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu
“Darcia Narvaez and Four Arrows have gathered an inspiring pastiche
of wise Native American voices woven together by their own
insightful and heartfelt dialogues to gift us with an invaluable
bundle of tenets and templates for the urgent project of
decolonizing and rewilding our minds and communities.”
—BILL PLOTKIN, PhD, author of Soulcraft, Wild Mind, and The Journey
of Soul Initiation
“Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez take each brief quote as the seed
for a conversation regarding one or another element of the
kincentric worldview—a vision of our earth not as a collection of
objects and objective, mechanical processes, but as an interactive
community of sensitive and sentient powers: a communion of
subjects.”
—DAVID ABRAM, author of Becoming Animal and The Spell of the
Sensuous
“A glorious prism of voices calling out to us to imagine a more
inclusive and sustainable way of being. I ache for the kind of
world that is invoked within these pages.”
—HILLARY S. WEBB, PhD, cultural anthropologist at Goddard College
and author of Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World
“This book is like brilliant sunlight from the past that reaches us
now and illuminates our way forward. It’s Indigenous wisdom and
more. For we also keep company with Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez
in conversation on how to change the world’s trajectory from one of
domination over people and nature to relation, kinship, love, and
bounty. To Life itself.”
—PETER H. KAHN JR., PhD, professor of psychology at University of
Washington and author of Technological Nature
“As it becomes starkly obvious that our future, and life on and of
the earth, are in peril, ancestral Indigenous voices are speaking
the only words that can save us. The Kogi Mamas teach that
everything is a manifestation of thought and that to listen is to
think. Understanding ancestral eloquence is our last and best
chance, and these pages can only help.”
—ALAN EREIRA, founder and chair at Tairona Heritage Trust and
producer and director of From the Heart of the World
“Restoring the Kinship Worldview provides a much-needed and
well-stocked medicine cabinet to begin healing how we think and
talk about the suffering of our planet and its struggling
inhabitants. Open your mind and heart to its multi-Indigenous balms
that are administered through the psalms of elders and a dialogue
that leaves us ready to begin anew.”
—HILLARY KEENEY, PhD, and BRADFORD KEENEY, PhD, founders of Sacred
Ecstatics
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