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Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Are.na
[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... See more
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Tyson Yunkaporta discusses Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
I simply hold those objects and translate into print parts of the knowledge I see there. This is my method, and I call it umpan because that is our word for cutting, carving, and making—it is also the word now used for writing. My method for writing incorporates images and story attached to place and relationships, expressed first through cultural
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value. I write to provoke thought rather than represent fact, in a kind of dialogical and reflective process with the reader. For this I often use the dual first person. It is a common pronoun in Indigenous languages but not present in English; that’s why I translate it as ‘us-two’, my fingers typing those letters while my mouth is saying ngal.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
yarned with Elders and Percy Paul about these things (along with a bunch of old dead white guys),