Discover Kindred's Worldview Chart by Four Arrows - With Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez

Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez introduce Kindred readers to the illuminating Worldview Chart they explore in their current book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts For Rebalancing Life On Planet Earth.

About the Worldview Chart:

This chart is not intended as a rigid binary, but a true dichotomy best viewed as a continuum. It is meant to encourage seeking complementarity and dialogue. Absolutism is discouraged with the realization we are all participating in DW precepts to some degree. The chart assumes that all diverse cultures, religions, and philosophies can be grouped under one of the two worldviews. “Indigenous Worldview” does not belong to a race or group of people, but Indigenous cultures who still hold on to their traditional place-based knowledge are the wisdom keepers of this original Nature-based worldview. All people are indigenous to Earth and have the right and the responsibility to practice and teach the IW precepts. All have the responsibility to support Indigenous sovereignty, dignity, and use of traditional lands.

For non-Indians who are concerned about misappropriation, see the peer reviewed article,

“The Indigenization Controversy: For Whom By Whom.”

Worldview Chart and introduction by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), a.k.a. Don Trent Jacobs, Ph.D., Ed.D. Originally published in The Red Road (chanku luta): Linking Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives to Indigenous​ Worldview, 2020. Featured inRestoring the Kindship Worldview, 2022, by Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. Find Four Arrows and more on Indigenous Worldview at www.KindredMedia.org

About the Book:

Restoring the Kinship Worldview examines 28 of the 40 precepts presented on the Worldview Chart. This book is about worldview and the consciousness it creates and reflects. It is a topic of utmost importance for the continuation of humanity. “Worldview is a concept ‘whose time has come, ’and its increasing appearance in the contemporary climate change and global sustainability debates can be understood as both response to, and reflection of, the challenges of our time and the solutions they demand.” Everyone acts according to their worldview, an implicit set of assumptions that guide behavior.

About Four Arrows:

Born in 1946 with the given name, Donald Trent Jacobs, in honor of his Uncle who died on VJ day in WWII, Four Arrows was made a relative of the Oglala, Lakota and a member of the Medicine Horse Tiospaye after completing his Sun Dance vows while living and on the Pine Ridge Reservation and serving as Director of Education at Ogalala Lakota College. His mother and her family claimed Cherokee heritage but he had no exposure to the culture while growing up. After his experiences with the Raramuri of Mexico as described in his book, Primal Awareness, he obtained a doctorate in education focusing on Indigenous worldview from Boise State University. He was selected by AERO for their text Turning Points as one of 26 visionaries in education and his many books, chapters, peer- reviewed papers, journal articles and online presentations have made him an internationally recognized and respected authority on decolonizing, counter-hegemonic democracy and Indigeneity. His work has been endorsed by such notables as Vine Deloria, Jr., Greg Cajete, Daniel Wildcat, Ed McGaw, Rebecca Adamson, Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, Thom Hartman, John Pilger and many others. Recipient of a Martin-Springer Institute Moral Courage Award for his activism in behalf of American Indians, he is currently a professor at Fielding Graduate University where he has chaired many dissertations for Indigenous students and others interested in Indigenous life ways. He and his wife, Beatrice Angela, live in Mexico and British Columbia, where eco- activism, surfing, handball, horses, music and grandchildren are important focuses.

About Darcia Narvaez:

Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Darcia Narvaez researches moral development and human flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental and educational sciences. She has numerous publications, including more than 20 books such as Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing; Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality: Fulfilling Human Potential and Embodied Morality: Protectionism, Engagement and Imagination. A recent 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. She blogs for Kindred Media and hosts the Kindred World initiative, The EvolvedNest.org.

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