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[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
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Tyson Yunkaporta discusses Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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
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yarned with Elders and Percy Paul about these things (along with a bunch of old dead white guys),
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
Kelly Menzel is an Aboriginal woman from the Adelaide Hills and a keeper of ancestral Indigenous Knowledge. She is a nurse by trade and a healer by vocation who is currently completing her PhD and working as a university lecturer.