Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Mathematics is widely dreaded by most people the world over because of the recent tradition of confining its operations to the abstract/theoretical world. Without connecting maths to real-life contexts, people feel damage being done to their neural systems and naturally resist. There needs to be meaningful schematic links made between the symbols a
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using what is available, balancing animal and plant food, including plenty of long-chain fatty acids, seeking foods in the right season and cooking them slowly as we would in a ground oven or bed of ashes.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Further, you should never commit all of your cultural knowledge to a print or digital repository.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
They haven’t been taught to occupy less space than males.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
We don’t die, we go back to Country, then come around again third time round. Creation time isn’t a ‘long, long ago’ event, because creation is still unfolding now, and will continue to if we know how to know it.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
These are ancient paths of Dreaming etched into the landscape in song and story and mapped into our minds and bodies and relationships with everything around us: knowledge stored in every waterway and every rock.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
Knowledge transmission must connect both abstract knowledge and concrete application through meaningful metaphors in order to be effective.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
An old Islander fella once told me to get my eye off myself, share freely and it will all be taken care of.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
There is a balance between self-definition and group identity. These two are not contradictory but entwined, and there are names for all of the roles you occupy as an agent of complexity in Aboriginal society.