Guide to Indigenous Thought Invented guide
Ketan, the Guide
Your quest companion appears in the header, offers one of their ideas on your home page each day, and cheers you on in lessons. You can change companions at any time, and your progress stays the same.
An invented guide drawing on documented teachings of many Indigenous peoples, such as the Haudenosaunee seventh-generation principle and the Māori view of rivers as ancestors.
Draws on: Te Awa Tupua Act (2017), which made the Whanganui River a legal person
“I am the river, and the river is me.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
The land is a relative, not a storehouse.
Haudenosaunee teaching asks us to decide with the seventh generation in mind.
Wisdom sits in place, season and kinship.
Read more: Wikipedia
On the climb
Seven GenerationsThe River Is a Person
Quest with Ketan, the Guide above to start the climb and open these lessons.