Four Arrows talks about decolonization

Dear Wise Earth: Talks with Wahinkpe Topa, or Four Arrows in English, also known as Don Trent Jacobs - an American college professor, writer and activist for American Indian rights whose work has focused on Indigenous worldviews, wellness and counter-hegemonic education.

Four Arrows is faculty in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University. Formerly Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College and tenured Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University. He also sits on the advisory board of Dear Wise Earth.

With doctorates in health psychology and in Curriculum and Instruction (with a cognate in Indigenous Worldview) he has authored 21 books and numerous other publications relating to wellness, critical theory, education and Indigenous worldview.

His latest book: Restoring the Kinship Worldview, written with co-author Darcia Narvaez was released in 2022.

Dear Wise Earth: Talks about his journey from a young man as a marine sent to war in Vietnam to Four Arrows and his current life on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Dear Wise Earth: Talks about his theory on the need of Decolonization of the Mind, ‘best practices’ to allow indigenous wisdom and earth’s wisdom to flow into the hegemonist worldview, about how we can create acupuncture points that will help release flows of wisdom into an otherwise mechanistic worldview.

13 April