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In her 1986 book The Sacred Hoop, Laguna scholar and University of California professor Paula Gunn Allen describes the "sacred, ritual ways of the American Indian peoples" as an example of "a worldwide culture that predates western systems derived from the 'civilization' model," such as the sacred and tribal cultures of Tibet, the trans-Caucasus (including the Mediterranean and its western descendants in Brittany, Normandy, England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland), Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Africa. [1] Allen argues that these "tribal worldviews are more similar to one another than any of them are to the patriarchal worldview, and they have a better record of survival." [2] These ancient cultures assume collaborative, rather than individualized or isolated, teaching and learning. "In American Indian thought, God is known as the All Spirit, and other beings are also spirit--more spirit than body, more spirit than mind. The natural state of existence is whole": The universe itself...
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