Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

by Tyson Yunkaporta

Protection has two protocols. The first is to look out for yourself. The second is to look out for the people around you.

There must be a lot of yarners and yarns to make it work properly. It’s also coming from an asymmetrical relationship, with me assuming a position of moral authority over other points of view. That kind of thinking doesn’t produce complex solutions and dynamic innovations.

hybridisation occurring where the legal system meets an involuntary minority that is having to find creative ways to deal with its inequities and iniquities.

alliteration and rhyme with repetition—these are the devices oral cultures around the world have always used to assist in the transformative application of spoken texts.