Indigenous Voices, Part 8: Yarning with Indigenous Traditions

About this episode

This episode explores Indigenous traditions and wisdom as a response to global crises, emphasizing relational approaches over transactional ones.

Episode Topic: Yarning with Indigenous Traditions In an era of compounding global crises, our speakers offer a strategic intervention: a move beyond the transactional toward the relational. This dialogue interrogates the “myth of progress,” dismantles the currency of academic perfection, and retrieves custodial responsibility through the protocols of “Embassy.” Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta, Dr. Ashlee Bird, and Dr. Sousan Abadian examine how Indigenous wisdom provides essential checks on the ma...

People in this episode

Guests: Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta, Dr. Ashlee Bird, Dr. Sousan Abadian

Topics covered

• Indigenous traditions
• relational approaches
• myth of progress
• academic perfection
• custodial responsibility
• Indigenous wisdom

Keywords

• Indigenous wisdom
• relational
• custodial responsibility
• academic perfection
• myth of progress

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Notre Dame

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