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The Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow’s Hierarchy

By Teju Ravilochan

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-06-18/the-blackfoot-wisdom-that-inspired-maslows-hierarchy/

'Edgar Villanueva (2018) offers a beautiful example of how deeply ingrained this way of thinking is among First Nations in his book Decolonizing Wealth. He quotes Dana Arviso, Executive Director of the Potlatch Fund and member of the Navajo tribe, who recalls a time she asked Native communities in the Cheyenne River territory about poverty:

' “They told me they don’t have a word for poverty,” she said. “The closest thing that they had as an explanation for poverty was ‘to be without family.’” Which is basically unheard of. “They were saying it was a foreign concept to them that someone could be just so isolated and so without any sort of a safety net or a family or a sense of kinship that they would be suffering from poverty.”'

#maslow #psychology #IndigenousKnowing #poverty #Blackfoot

The Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow’s Hierarchy

Whereas American narratives focus on the individual, the Blackfoot way of life offers an alternative of a community that leaves no one behind

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Maslow's Hierarchy is Bullshit:
The elite capture of a Blackfoot belief system

https://pattykrawec.substack.com/p/maslows-hierarchy-is-bullshit

"You’re probably familiar with his pyramid of needs and it makes a kind of intuitive sense if you’ve been raised in the western world. The problem is he stole it from the Blackfoot and then inverted it because his hierarchy of needs isn’t intuitive at all, not on a global scale. Maslow took it and then turned it into something that would make maintaining colonial ways of knowing easier while making Indigenous ways of knowing more difficult, seem less reliable."

#maslow #psychology #IndigenousKnowing #EliteCapture #colonialism

Maslow's Hierarchy is Bullshit

The elite capture of a Blackfoot belief system

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