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How Ancestral Knowledge Took Me to the Olympics | Vaimo'oi'a Astrid Ripley | TEDxSydney GIS
TEDx Talks· 2026-03-02 17:54
When I was 8 years old, I pushed a little patch boat into the Pacific Island. The sail was old, the wood was also old, and the salt stung my eyes. Within the safety of the reef, I could hear the waves breaking against the hole.Slow, steady, ancient. And in that stillness, I felt something bigger than me. The ocean was endless.I didn't know it then, but I was starting to learn what my ancestors knew. That courage doesn't come from what you own, but from what you remember. We live in a world that tells us suc ...