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Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Our western ways of knowing focus on an us-versus-them approach that follows logical processes, frameworks, and methodologies with a linear outcome whereas Indigenous and ancestral cultures are non-linear, intuitive, sensorial, reciprocal and actively explore ‘unactivated possibilities’ for future ancestors.
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Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Tyson Yunkaporta has many such anecdotes in his book Sand Talk:
[The Elder] says things like, ‘It is going to rain in twelve minutes,’ and the kids time it on their phones and laugh in amazement when his prediction comes true. He predicts events like an annual emergence of flying ants from the ground, then follows seasonal signals, winding through t... See more
[The Elder] says things like, ‘It is going to rain in twelve minutes,’ and the kids time it on their phones and laugh in amazement when his prediction comes true. He predicts events like an annual emergence of flying ants from the ground, then follows seasonal signals, winding through t... See more