I'm part of the world's oldest living culture, but could I kill a zombie with a boomerang? | Tyson Yunkaporta

The apocalypse has become a running theme in First Nations art and media. So are Indigenous people ready for the end?

The Doomsday Clock, used by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists for the last 70 years to indicate the danger level of global nuclear annihilation, was recently moved to “two-and-a-half minutes to midnight”.

On an Aboriginal timeline, we might recall much older lore about uranium, which warns of a monster that must be left in the ground or it will destroy the earth with fire; or the blue tongue lizard Dreaming story warning about radioactive poison.

When people wonder what the post-apocalypse world will look like, just ask an Indigenous person, we survived and have been living in it.

I'm very fond of saying that as Indigenous people "Survival is our Superpower". We have survived the apocalypse of colonization & genocide.

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Colonisation was our apocalypse, and we are already living in a dystopian future, so we are ahead of the game.

If you can’t remember what wattles indicate about the fish in the river, then you’re going to have a bad apocalypse