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Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World | Are.na
Most lasting cultural innovations occur through the demotic—the practices and forms that evolve through the daily lives and interactions of people and place in an organic sequence of adaptation.
Tyson Yunkaporta • 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
European Bioneers conference in the Netherlands, I had the good fortune to meet Dennis Martinez, a native American elder who has been instrumental in establishing the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network’ (IPRN). Dennis is widely recognized for creating a bridge between ‘traditional ecological knowledge’ (TEK) and Western science. His passion i
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Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
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Early maps of the world were like this too, before Europeans began their empire-building and inverted the charts to place themselves at the top.