Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity.

Viewing the world through a lens of simplicity always seems to make things more complicated but simultaneously less complex.

The ability to write fluently in the language of the occupying power seems to contradict an Indigenous author’s membership in a community that is not supposed to be able to write about itself at all.

There is a pattern to the universe and everything in it, and there are knowledge systems and traditions that follow this pattern to maintain balance, to keep the temptations of narcissism in check. But recent traditions have emerged that break down creation systems like a virus, infecting complex patterns with artificial simplicity, exercising a ci

Most of us have been displaced from those cultures of origin, a global diaspora of refugees severed not only from land but from the sheer genius that comes from belonging in symbiotic relation to it.