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Tyson Yunkaporta

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Australia

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Nonfiction, Philosophy

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Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne.

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Average rating: 4.36 · 4,009 ratings · 552 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World 4.36 avg rating — 3,868 ratings — published 2019 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right Story, Wrong Story 4.19 avg rating — 127 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No More Gold Stars: Regenerating Capacity to Think for Ourselves by Carol Sanford (Goodreads Author), Tom Peters (Foreword), Tyson Yunkaporta (Foreword) 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Declaration of Peace for Indigenous Australians and Nature: A Legal Pluralist Approach to First Laws and Earth Laws by Anne Poelina, Donna Bagnall, Mary Graham it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Right Story, Wrong Story: How to Have Fearless Conversations in Hell 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sand Talk: Das Wissen der Aborigines und die Krisen der modernen Welt by Tyson Yunkaporta, Dirk Höfer (translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If people are laughing, they are learning. True learning is a joy because it is an act of creation.”
― Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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“You can't maintain a culture that is based on retarding the development of half the population, particularly the half that is responsible for creating life.”
― Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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“an Indigenous person is a member of a community retaining memories of life lived sustainably on a land base, as part of that land base.”
― Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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