By Vicki Zakrzewski, Greater Good Magzine, November 23, 2022
Do we believe that every person, including those who are different from us, has intrinsic worth? Do we believe that the animals we love as pets and the ones who live in the wild have intrinsic worth? Do trees, rivers, oceans, mountains have intrinsic worth? If the answer is yes, then what should our actions be towards all these things and towards life itself?
Those are some of the questions tackled in a recent book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview, which explores how indigenous knowledge can help humanity survive and thrive, now and in the future. Indigenous scholar Wahinkpe Topa and moral-development expert Darcia Narvaez offer deep, practical insights into how the indigenous worldview can help us shift our beliefs about our way of being in the world—and set us on the path to healing.
I interviewed them about how indigenous perspectives could help transform parenting, education, and society in general. Here is an edited version of our conversation.
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