Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Sustainability agents have a few simple operating guidelines, or network protocols, or rules if you like: diversify, connect, interact, and adapt.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
How might we identify and utilize the various sets of Indigenous Knowledge scattered throughout this kaleidoscope of identities?
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
A knowledge-keeper must share knowledge because she or he is a custodian of miniature creation events that must continually take place in the minds of people coming into knowledge.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
To understand the crisis of civilization in this way, we first need to define what civilization is from the standpoint of First Peoples’ Law.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The ability to write fluently in the language of the occupying power seems to contradict an Indigenous author’s membership in a community that is not supposed to be able to write about itself at all.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
But that First Law is still there. We need to be brave enough to apply it to our reality of infinitely interconnected, self-organizing, self-renewing systems.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
This principle facilitates the flow of living knowledge.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
The lines above and below show the lines of communication between these worlds, which occur through metaphors.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
But chaos in reality has a structure that produces innovation, and “anarchy” simply means “no boss.” Could it be possible to have structure without bosses?