Gemma Speck
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Jun
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Maslow's hierarchy was actually inspired by the people of the Blackfoot Nation, a Native American tribe.
I think they're in Montana, they're in Canada.
So in the 1930s, mid-1930s, Maslow went to this place called Siksika.
It's like the largest reserve of the Blackfoot Nation.
And he spent six months living there, observing their social hierarchy.
He kind of learned their language.
More specifically, he learned about a way of life they had, which was
Doesn't have an English word, didn't have one then, doesn't have one now.
But when we compare it to Maslow's theory, it looks very similar.
He was deeply inspired by what he saw.
According to information from the University of Alberta, the Blackfoot model actually was structured as the inverse to Maslow's eventual theory.
So for them, the base was self-actualization.
In their view, we are each born into the world as a spark of divinity with a greater purpose embedded in us.
after we're born belonging occurs as like the tribe is there to love and care for us and through that love is how we then receive basic survival needs and basic survival resources you know it's how we get food it's how we get safety it's how we get security it's how we tend to those needs we then from all that achieve community actualization or self-transcendence or community transcendence and
Because due to this system, we're able to support everybody.
People contribute back to the community.
And that leads to something bigger that isn't even in Maslow's model, but is still so crucial, which is something called cultural perpetuity.
Each member of the tribe, they say, is one day going to be gone.
So passing on knowledge and passing on a deep truth about how the community operates and how people take care of each other and in order to maintain harmony, that is the ultimate goal.
So that the community, the family, the culture, the society endures.
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