Tyson Yunkaporta Tyson Yunkaporta i(12359743 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

Dr Tyson Yunkaporta belongs to the Apalech Clan from Western Cape York; in 2019, he was a senior lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, in Indigenous Knowledges. He also carves traditional tools and weapons, and is a published poet. In 2019, he published the non-fiction Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World with Text Publishing.

Sources include Text Publishing.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Works by Tyson Yunkaporta not individually indexed include:

    Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (Text Publishing 2019)
  • In 2019, Tyson Yunkaporta's Sand Talk was longlisted for the 2020 Indie Book awards (Non-fiction) and shortlisted for the Booksellers' Choice Awards (adult non-fiction).
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