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Indigenous cultures have known for thousands of years the importance of staying connected to nature for the sake of the human race. Today more than ever, societies have taken on a dangerous human-centered perspective that might lead us to our own demise. In this month's second expert opinion piece, Four Arrows, a professor at the College of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University, explains why adopting a complementary Indigenous perspective is the key to knocking down societal structures that harm us and the planet, and keep us from living more connected lives.
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Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), AKA Don Trent Jacobs, is currently a professor in the College of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University. Of Irish/Cherokee descent and a made-relative of the Oglala, he previously lived and worked on the Pine Ridge reservation where he served as director of education at Oglala Lakota College on Pine Ridge and fulfilled his four sun dance vows with the Rick Two Dogs Medicine Horse band. He was named one of 27 “visionaries in education” by the Alternative Education Resource Organization, and is recipient of the Martin Springer Institute’s Moral Courage Award for his activism. He is the author of 20 books.
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