INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS ON PEACE, POWER, AND EQUITY¹

In Chapter 5, Neyooxet Greymorning writes about “Indigenous Traditions on Peace, Power, and Equity.” The first part of the chapter begins by looking at how Indigenous cultural ways of being were eroded by the forces of colonization. This is followed by examining European perspectives of peace, power, and equity before moving on to discuss Indigenous jurisprudence, and specific worldviews and practices that traditionally have helped to maintain balance and equity. The chapter then takes readers back to a time before reservations were established in western America, through “his-story” that involved the Kiowa and Comanche with the Cheyenne and Apache, and the Arapaho, the agents who brokered for a balance of power, equity, and the maintenance of peace.