In her 1986 part The Sacred Hoop.

In her 1986 part The Sacred Hoop, Laguna scholar and University of California professor Paula Gunn Allen describes the "sacred, ritual ways of the American Indian peoples" as an example of "a worldwide tillage that predates western systems derived from the 'civilization' model" of the like kind as the sacred and tribal cultivations of Tibet, the trans-Caucasus (including the Mediterranean and its western descendants in Brittany, Normandy, England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland), Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Africa. [1] Allen argues that these "tribal worldviews are more similar to undivided another than any of them are to the patriarchal worldview, and they