Gemma Speck
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Jun
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This community had reached a point where
Personal artifacts, personal things didn't matter anymore.
If the community was suffering, if the community was in need, what is the point of personal possessions?
I think this is the most important thing in this episode because Maslow himself, as far as we know, did not shy away from speaking about this.
He was...
I think according to records from what I've seen very open that like this is where the idea came from.
It really inspired him.
But according to researchers, the American and the Canadian government buried the Blackfoot roots of Maslow's theory because they didn't want it to elevate a positive narrative about these people.
It was only really rediscovered, not so much rediscovered, but republicized after Maslow died.
Some 50 years later, when someone went to write a book on his life and they went to the Smithsonian archives and then they went to Maslow's daughter, who essentially gave them permission to excavate his hidden archival box.
And as they were looking through it, they found all these entries and all these accounts and all these early theoretical ideas from his time there that would become his theory of human motivation seven years later, which is the birthplace of the, now we know as the hierarchy of needs.
This is so important to know and to share, especially since psychology has so many underlying issues as an increasingly but also historically white westernized discipline.
Here we have an example of a core concept, a core theory, one that millions of people know about that was directly informed and based on the teachings and cultural harmony of a Native American group.
And it's a theory they don't get credit for.
Only the man who named it does.
I found out about this a few years ago actually for the first time thanks to a listener of the podcast and it's just kind of stuck with me ever since.
So I'm really glad that we get to talk about it today and it's perfect timing to do a full episode on this.
With that in mind, and I would really, really encourage you to go and look at this more.
There's a bunch of really interesting historical accounts available at the University of Montana website, University of Alberta website that goes through all of his diaries and all of that.
And there's also a lot of just personal accounts from back then of people who were there when he was writing the theory that, yeah, it's just really interesting to dig into.
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