Building Strong Indigenous Communities Lessons from North America #community #emotionalintelligence

19 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, Marc Haine explains that Indigenous societies place community at the highest priority for survival. From childhood, individuals are assigned roles and responsibilities, learning directly from elders such as aunties and uncles. This early, participatory involvement creates a cohesive, collective structure that has enabled Indigenous communities across North America to endure for millennia.

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So to bring in the Indigenous perspective, community was number one. That was how you survived, was your role in— was being a part of a community. And you had a role from childhood that included responsibilities. And so you were learning from the aunties and the uncles, but you were working and you were participating and everybody had roles and responsibilities. And it was that— cohesiveness and collectiveness that really helped survive, helped communities survive millennia in North America.