Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
mind. There is more to narrative than simply telling our stories. We have to compare our stories with the stories of others to seek greater understanding about our reality. It is a test of validity and rigour for new knowledge. The symbol shows two people sitting, bringing their stories together to share through sand talk to extend their knowledge.
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Everybody has agency in our traditional justice system and these street fights are its latest permutation in an ongoing struggle to keep our participatory models of governance alive.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Keepers of knowledge see him behaving in this way and know he is ready to be responsible for additional knowledge, so pass on story to him.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Kinship moves in cycles, the land moves in seasonal cycles, the sky moves in stellar cycles and time is so bound up in those things that it is not even a separate concept from space.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
My colour blindness, however, makes me look elsewhere for him, finding knowledge in unexpected places.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The assistance I’m talking about comes from sharing patterns of knowledge and ways of thinking that will help trigger the ancestral knowledge hidden inside. The assistance people need is not in learning about Aboriginal Knowledge but in remembering their own.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
many would rather not be captured in print and pinned down to a particular moment of thought, preferring to dwell privately in the generative cultural practice of yarning.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Mathematics is widely dreaded by most people the world over because of the recent tradition of confining its operations to the abstract/theoretical world. Without connecting maths to real-life contexts, people feel damage being done to their neural systems and naturally resist. There needs to be meaningful schematic links made between the symbols a
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Entire cultures and populations recovering from this plague have been left like orphan children with no memories of who they are, longing for a pattern they know is there but can’t see.