Why the World Needs Indigenous Wisdom

Name: Why the World Needs Indigenous Wisdom
Start: 2025-09-23T18:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-09-23T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Weller Book Works 607 Trolley Sq, Salt Lake City, UT 84102

Schedule

Tue Sep 23 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Weller Book Works 607 Trolley Sq, Salt Lake City, UT 84102 | Salt Lake City, UT

Darren Parry, former Chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and visiting professor in the School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability at the University of Utah, will explore indigenous principles in relation to modern ambitions. Drawing upon his book “Tending the Sacred: How Indigenous Wisdom Will Save the World,” Parry calls us to reimagine our responsibilities toward earth. He shows how the systems we rely on have become unsustainable. The modern machine cannot survive without reverence, reciprocity, respect, and resilience. Parry challenges the relentless drive toward growth, progress, and technology at all costs. Though ever an optimist, Parry warns of collapse if we fail to restore the slow ways of wholeness with nature and each other. The event takes place at Weller Book Works at Trolley Square in Salt Lake City. A Q&A and book signing will follow.
This event is organized by Books & Bridges — a humanities forum of ideas and conversation. Our mission is to facilitate discussion on the best of human thought. We explore the wisdoms of the world and apply them to modern life. We have no political, religious or ideological affiliation. In a society divided by uncivil discourse, the beauty of the humanities—novels, history, philosophy, poetry, ethics and epics—lifts us to our better angels. In our busy world we need space for friends and fellow learners to do a little more heart-to-heart and mind-to-mind.
Photo credit to the excellent Nathan St. Andre at www.standrephotography.com