Tyson Yunkaporta: Sand Talk – How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Tyson Yunkaporta about Indigenous thinking and its relevance to contemporary issues.

Join me and co-host Fil Tkaczyk for a “proper yarn” with Tyson Yunkaporta about: · The idea of what it means to live within and through multiple associations, ideals, and ways of thinking. · Tyson’s indigenous and cultural roots. · How everything that is real about who we are is not necessarily only within ourselves, but within the connections of our relations. · What a “proper yarn” is and means. · &...

People in this episode

Host: Ron Waline

Guest: Tyson Yunkaporta

Topics covered

• Indigenous thinking
• cultural roots
• connections
• multiple associations
• proper yarn

Keywords

• Indigenous thinking
• cultural roots
• connections
• proper yarn
• multiple associations

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