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Alex Half-Moon Peoples knows he's one of the walking wounded. As an
international journalist, he knows, too, that abject poverty and
global injustice breed terrorism. Having witnessed one massacre,
famine, epidemic, or civil war after another during his years in
Africa, he dreams every night children are starving to death and it
is his job to save them. Returning to the States has only increased
his anxiety. Exactly five hundred years post-Christopher Columbus,
the gap between the haves and the have-nots is getting worse, not
better. When sixties' friend Paul invites him to visit one of the
poorest, most war-torn countries in South America to report on a
potentially life-affirming narrative encoded on an ancient, broken
urn, he feels compelled to go. What he unearths will change his
life.
A story of redemption as much as discovery - the chronicle of a
mixed-race nomad who both wants and does not want to belong, an
overzealous do-gooder disgusted by zealotry, a man who longs to
love, but who struggles each day just to heal his own brokenness -
Searching the Andes for Albert Schweitzer probes the mysteries of
the human heart.
Alex Moon Peoples knows he's one of the walking wounded. As an
international journalist, he knows, too, that no one wins a war on
terrorism. Having witnessed one massacre, famine, epidemic, or
civil war after another during his years in Africa, he dreams every
night children are starving to death and it is up to him to save
them. Returning to the States has only increased his anxiety. When
friend Paul invites him to visit one of the poorest, most war-torn
countries in South America to report on a potentially
life-affirming narrative encoded on an ancient, broken urn, he
feels compelled to go. What he finds will change his life.
A story of redemption as much as discovery-the chronicle of an
idealist consumed with hatred, a fanatic disgusted by fanaticism, a
man who longs to love but who struggles each day just to heal his
own brokenness-"Searching the Andes for Albert Schweitzer" probes
the mysteries of the human heart.
Uncovering Indigenous Models of Leadership focuses on Native and
Indigenous leadership as an expression of a lived experience--as
seen, felt, and heard--from the perspectives provided by Native
Pacific Islanders, Polynesians, and, more specifically, Samoans
from the Talavou clan. Central to this study is the question: What
themes and elements influence Samoan leadership and how might these
leaders provide others, elsewhere, with a different model of
leadership, to reduce the inequitable effects of capitalism's
insatiable hunger for more power and material gain, so that all
people on planet Earth might thrive? This study asserts that
alternative models of leadership must be uncovered and that Native
and Indigenous People, specifically leaders, hold the keys to
moving our species beyond survival so that we can all thrive.
Liberating, inclusive, and anchored in self-determinism, it
demonstrates that Native and Indigenous People know who they are,
why they exist, and that they will continue to thrive, despite the
ongoing impositions of colonialization, capitalization, and
globalization on their ways of being and knowing. Ultimately, it
uncovers an Indigenous model of leadership based on the notion of
alofa, or love. As a companion to the study, the author has created
an extended play album of original music titled, "Heart of the
Matter," which can be found online. Leiataua Robert Jon Peterson,
EdD, is president, CEO, and cofounder of TE2: Education and
Engineering Consulting, LLC.
Uncovering Indigenous Models of Leadership focuses on Native and
Indigenous leadership as an expression of a lived experience--as
seen, felt, and heard--from the perspectives provided by Native
Pacific Islanders, Polynesians, and, more specifically, Samoans
from the Talavou clan. Central to this study is the question: What
themes and elements influence Samoan leadership and how might these
leaders provide others, elsewhere, with a different model of
leadership, to reduce the inequitable effects of capitalism's
insatiable hunger for more power and material gain, so that all
people on planet Earth might thrive? This study asserts that
alternative models of leadership must be uncovered and that Native
and Indigenous People, specifically leaders, hold the keys to
moving our species beyond survival so that we can all thrive.
Liberating, inclusive, and anchored in self-determinism, it
demonstrates that Native and Indigenous People know who they are,
why they exist, and that they will continue to thrive, despite the
ongoing impositions of colonialization, capitalization, and
globalization on their ways of being and knowing. Ultimately, it
uncovers an Indigenous model of leadership based on the notion of
alofa, or love. As a companion to the study, the author has created
an extended play album of original music titled, "Heart of the
Matter," which can be found online. Leiataua Robert Jon Peterson,
EdD, is president, CEO, and cofounder of TE2: Education and
Engineering Consulting, LLC.
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