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Sand Talk

2019 book by Tyson Yunkaporta

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionMay 10, 2025

Entity authoritySource title only

Source-derived summary

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World is a 2019 book by Tyson Yunkaporta that sets out to look at the world, especially sustainability, through Aboriginal perspectives. Yunkaporta calls for fewer token gestures such as land acknowledgements and more meaningful inclusion. The book engages with other Indigenous people to draw from their lived knowledge, which creates paradoxes for the reader.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sand Talk” as 2019 book by Tyson Yunkaporta. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sand, Talk and book can be independently traced.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2019 book by Tyson Yunkaporta. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 10, 2025. The first chronological checks are 2019.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sand Talk” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.