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Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) is a professor at Fielding Graduate University. Former Director of Education at Oglala Lakota College, he is a made-relative of the Oglala and a Sun Dancer. Selected by AERO for their text Turning Points as one of 27 "Visionaries in Education" and recipient of a Martin Springer Institute for Holocaust Studies "Moral Courage Award" for his activism, he is the author of more than 20 books, praised by such notables as Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Henry Giroux, Darcia Narvaez, Greg Cajete, Sam Keen, Thom Hartmann, and many others. His books, chapters, articles and videos on Indigenous Worldview and its applications for sustainability can be accessed at fourarrowsbooks.com. He lives with his artist/photographer wife in a remote section of Mexico on the Costalegre. There is also a book on his work entitled Fearless Engagement of Four Arrows by R. Michael Fisher (Peter Lang, 2019).

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Our Millions Year-Old Embodied Wisdom: Indigenous Worldview, A Video With…

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About Kinship and Indigenous Worldview Most philosophical positions are rooted in western enlightenment assumptions of human superiority to and…
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The Ukraine Horror And The Worldview Problematic

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Like many people worldwide, I participated in a dialogue last night that focused on the Ukraine tragedy with a respected group of colleagues from around the…
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Earth Day Is Every Day: Four Ways To Integrate Kinship Worldview

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Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez share four ways we can integrate our Kinship Worldview this Earth Day: https://youtu.be/O1wDReMAirQ Indigenous…
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Why We Must Restore Our Kinship Worldview

Four Arrows Apr 21, 2022 0
Listen to Darcia Narvaez and Four Arrows discuss their new book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview, on the California Institute for Integral Studies, CIIS,…
Addiction

Unsettling Coloniality in the Psychological Sciences by Restoring Our…

Four Arrows Apr 1, 2022 1
Abstract Psychology is the go-to social science for helping mitigate imbalanced mental capacity and behavior. This article shows how it is also one of the…
Books

Restoring Our Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts…

Four Arrows Mar 29, 2022 0
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…
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Kindred’s Quarter Century of Serving the Re-Generation Read 88 five-star reviews of our nonprofit work and support our work on our Great Nonprofits'…
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An Indigenous Worldview Can Preserve Our Existence, A New Video

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https://youtu.be/QkQTeVmHn7M About the video Narrated by Kindred contributor and editorial advisory board member, Four Arrows, this video shows how our…
American Democracy At The Crossroads

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Four Arrows Apr 12, 2021 0
Often in life, we find more difficulty in getting motivated to implement a healthy practice than exists in the practice itself. Similarly, it is relatively…
Climate Change

“Decolonization” and “Indigenization” A Brief…

Four Arrows Nov 24, 2020 0
Editor's Note: Four Arrows refers to the Worldview Chart found here in this article. Feel free to download it and share. What fundamental view of the…
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