Ep 2.4: What Indigenous Traditions Can Teach Other Spiritualities

Richard Randolph has a fascinating discussion with John Grim, a historian of religions focusing on Indigenous Traditions. During their conversation, John shares his experiences learning from indigenous peoples, including being adopted by Crow people from Montana and invited to participate in their Sun Dance ceremonials. He reflects on what people from other faiths and spiritualities can learn from Indigenous knowledge and wisdom.
Links:

• To financially support this podcast series, go to www.scienceandspirituality.org/support
• Richard’s new Substack reflections, https://scienceandspiritualityblog.substack.com
• John Grim is Co-Director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, for more information go to https://fore.yale.edu/; the Yale Forum current “Living Earth Community” can be found here, https://livingearthcommunity.com/

Suggestions for Further Reading
John Grim, The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing Among the Ojibway Indians, University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
John Grim, editor, Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions, 2001.
Robin Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed, 2013.
N Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
Leslie Harmon Silko, Ceremony
James Welch, Winter in the Blood
Janet Campbell Hale, The Jailing of Cecilia Capture
Susan Power, The Grass Dancer
Eddie Chocolate, Cheyenne Madonna
Gerald Vizenor, Bearheart
Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun
Joy Harjo (poet), An American Sunrise
Linda Hogan (poet and novelist), A History of Kindness
Simon Ortiz (poet), From Sand Creek
John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks

To financially support this podcast series, go to www.scienceandspirituality.org/support  

To access Richard’s new Substack reflections, https://scienceandspiritualityblog.substack.com