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#79: Can Indigenous thinking save the world? (ft. Tyson Yunkaporta)

It's Not Just In Your Head

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Aboriginal Australia and the Reconstruction of Japan

A lot of Aboriginal men were conscripted into World War II. They weren't allowed to come back home because we weren't citizens. There are lineages of Aboriginal people all over the world who were unable to get back home here. And there's a bit of a bitterness in our elders towards, you know, they did Pearl Harbor and all this sort of stuff. We were able to put all these millions of dollars, billions of dollars and all this labor and all these efforts towards rebuilding their country for them. What about us? Is there not even like, you know,. Because at that stage and right the way through after that, there were stolen wages... Our wages were quarant

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