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Article: Indegenous economics: new investment strategies among indigenous peoples help create holistic and sustainable communities.(A SPECIAL ISSUE ON FAITH AND YOUR FINANCES)
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- Sojourners Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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I grew up as the daughter of a Cherokee mother and a Swedish father. The Christian teachings of my childhood and the deeply infused way of being in the world I experience as an Indigenous person shape my understanding of economics--and of what is possible. In the United States, we interact daily with an economic system that undermines basic Christian values of concern for the and love of one's neighbors and violates balance, and reciprocity within creation. Individualism, greed, and overconsumption are fear-based responses that deny the abundance provided by the Creator.
For centuries, Indigenous Peoples have infused our individual and collective economic ...