Description:
This book critiques the shortcomings of diversity and inclusion efforts, arguing they rely on the dominant worldview causing the issues. It proposes rediscovering Indigenous worldviews as a remedy, offering transformative learning to preserve diverse environments and ensure human survival.
Review Quotes:
"Four Arrows has combined his internationally respected scholarship on Indigenous
worldview with experience based story-telling to help bring forth a more effective way to
actualize authentic respect for diversity, especially as it relates to transformational curricula
in higher education. Had humanity begun this project long ago, Nature would not have to be bringing us back into balance so radically now."
Tom McCallum
(White Standing Buffalo) -- Métis/Michif-speaking elder,
Cree Sundance Lodge Keeper, and author
"Five hundred years of colonization has divided humanity, separated us from our relatives,
and reduced them to objects to be exploited for commerce and greed. We are now steeped
in multiple life threatening crises, and staring at extinction. The road of violence, extermination
and extinction has been paved by colonizing the land, diverse cultures, our minds and the future. The Red Road: Linking Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives to Indigenous Worldview by Four Arrows provides a path to the future, a path of peace, with signposts from Indigenous world views that recognize that we are interconnected and are all members of one Earth family . Our highest duty, our Dharma, is living in harmony with all our relations."
Vandana Shiva
Scholar, physicist, environmental activists and recipient of the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize,
the Right Livelihood Award, Director of NAVDANYA and author of over 20 books, including
Oneness vs. the 1% and Who Really Feeds the World