Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

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Indigenous epistemology

39. The knowing inside

Transcript There’s a story told by Abraham Maslow, the psychologist. Back in the 1930s, at the very start of his career, he did fieldwork among the Blackfoot people of southern Alberta. He wanted to test the idea of emotional security or insecurity across cultures. So he camped out for a summer on Blackfoot land and…  Read More…

28. Seeing each leaf

Transcript Many years ago an anthropology student was doing his fieldwork among the Yurok people, living with them on the border between California and Oregon, along the Klamath River. The student later wrote that the Yurok people educated him in a similar way as they would educate their own children—that is, offering almost no direct…  Read More…

14. Everything is alive and we are all relatives

Transcript “Everything is alive, and we are all relatives.” The sentence showed up in an essay I read this week by a Native Hawaiian philosopher named Manulani Aluli Meyer. Manulani was quoting a teacher of hers who said that this one sentence, with its two simple ideas, is what Indigenous peoples from around the world…  Read More…