Remembering May 26,1962, Self Propelled Space Flight, Dakota and Chickasaw Nation Style
I started Pole Vaulting at 9 years old ( I953),when my beloved father taped up an old bamboo pole, (so if it shattered, it wouldn’t hurt me) and made me a straw pole vault pit and shared with me the basics of “pole vaulting” that he had learned, as young boy, at the Haskell Indian […]
Remembering Lunch with Franco and Deloria in Bangkok on May 17, 2010
GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR CONSULTATION, STEPS FOR TAKING UNIFIED ACTION, AND NON-POLITICAL ELECTIONS
These Guiding Principles of Consultation, Steps for Taking Unified Action and a Non-Political Process for Electing Community Leadership are increasingly being utilized, in various, related forms, in Indigenous Communities across the Americas and beyond. FWII uses this Integrative Model of Thought and Guiding Principles for our work in the Americas and globally. There are many […]
Indigenous Wisdom and Knowledge Of Truth And Justice
The Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom of Truth and Justice The following story is based on a story by Brother Phil Lane, Jr., Ihanktowan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations, as retold by Richard Wagamese. It considers the valued traits in an Indigenous Leader of truth and justice. IN THE TIME BEFORE there were human beings on Earth, the […]
Great Nations are the Natural Result of Great People
“A Revolution Is Coming!”
“A revolution is coming: a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough. But a revolution is coming whether we like it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.” Robert F. Kennedy
The Fulfillment of the Prophecy of the Reunion of the Condor and Eagle is Accelerating
Prior to the arrival of the first European explorers an Indigenous kinship network based in spiritual and cultural relationships and protocols existed for centuries across the Western Hemisphere. Through this network of many networks, this Hoop of Many Hoops, Indigenous Peoples shared knowledge, capacity and resources for mutual aid, trade and development. This ancient network, […]
A 1928 Visit With Tipi Sapa, Black Lodge and Sunka Kuciyedano, Low Dog, a Little Big Horn Veteran
In the fall of 1928 we were living in the little town of Mobridge, South Dakota, just across the Missouri River from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. When school opened in the fall, I went up to the local school to enrol in school. I had never been in a school like that one, being […]
Justice, Human Rights, Social and Economic Development and Cultural Diversity
The implications of justice for social and economic development are profound. Concern for justice protects the task of defining progress from the temptation to sacrifice the well-being of the generality of humankind—and even of Mother Earth, itself—to the advantages which technological breakthroughs can make available to privileged minorities. In design and planning, it ensures that […]
The Four Worlds International Institute’s Human and Community Development Approach
The Four Worlds International Institute ( FWII ) 1.considers culture to be the primary key to unlocking the forces the people on the path of their own development; 2.considers the spiritual and moral dimensions of human development to be inescapable; 3.considers the articulation of a vision of the future, of possibilities other than the current […]