Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom

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.

“Authentic and deep respect for Indigenous knowledge(s) means keeping it alive and vital, appreciating its urgent necessity for today’s 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

• List of Figures – Acknowledgements – Darcia Narvaez/Four Arrows/Eugene Halton/Brian S Collier/Georges Enderle: People and Planet in Need of Sustainable Wisdom – Penny Spikins: Conversations with the Deep Past: What Can Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Tell Us about Sustainable Wisdom? – Eugene Halton: Indigenous Bodies, Civilized Selves, and the Escape from the Earth – Barbara Alice Mann: Rematriating Economics: The Gift Economy of Woodlands Matriarchies – Darcia Narvaez: Original Practices for Becoming and Being Human – Gregory A. Cajete: Plants, Native Science and Indigenous Sustainability – Bruce E. Johansen: Mother Earth vs. Mother Lode: Native Environmental Ethos, Sustainability, and Human Survival – Steve J. Langdon: Spiritual Relations, Moral Obligations and Existential Continuity: The Structure and Transmission of Tlingit Principles and Practices of Sustainable Wisdom – Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa), aka Don Trent Jacobs: Sustainable Wisdom and Truthfulness: An Indigenous Spiritual Perspective – Tom McCallum: Listening to the Trees – Jon Young: Connection Modeling: Metrics for Deep Nature-Connection, Mentoring, and Culture Repair – Sandra Waddock: Wisdom, Sustainability, Dignity, and the Intellectual Shaman – Kimberly Blaeser: For a Tattered Planet: Art and Tribal Continuance – Contributors – Index.