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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: 4.35 · 5,128 ratings · 701 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World 4.36 avg rating — 4,770 ratings — published 2019 — 4 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 4.11 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2023 — 4 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 4.25 avg rating — 73 ratings — 6 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) 4.59 avg rating — 22 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
	Snake Talk: How the world’s ancient serpent stories can guide us by Tyson Yunkaporta, Megan Kelleher 4.30 avg rating — 20 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 — 4 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
	Relato correcto, relato incorrecto: Una travesía por el pensamiento indígena by Tyson Yunkaporta, Ricardo García Pérez (translator), Herder Editorial (cover_art) 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
	Relato correcto, relato incorrecto: Una travesía por el pensamiento indígena \| Yunkaporta amplía sus exploraciones sobre el modo en que los occidentales ... la aren». (Salto de Fondo) by Tyson Yunkaporta, Ricardo García Pérez (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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“Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go.”
― Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

tags: amends, energy, guilt, let-go, truth

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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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