Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta

Sand Talk by Tyson YunkaportaA paradigm shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important

and ‘60s

To remind her of what the world has to offer

just at the point when that course seemed certain to fail

Victoria and ended a year later watching a lovely little Speckled Warbler on a chilly morning back in Victoria with 638 other species seen in between

belying a deep well of emotion

home ownership and revitalising cultural practices

Danny loathes it there and is bullied and shunned as an outsider

who has asked him to keep one devastating promise

is a stranger who doesn't even know her name

and bubbling towards future generations of tiddas (sisters)

An important literary memoir which views white settler family history against the impacts on the Indigenous people with whom they interact

and all her best friends are giant megafauna animals