“If you steal from the thieves, can they call the cops! If you heist from the blackmarket, is it really a crime!… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them… — Patricia Velasquez Copy Share Image
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories. — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Let us not be tempted by those who try to find the unique qualities in a particular group. In this case, among… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If anyone can say 'go back,' it's Native Americans. My Pueblo ancestors, despite being targeted at every juncture - despite facing famine… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“The purpose of any ceremony is to build stronger relationship or bridge the distance between our cosmos and us. The research that… — Shawn Wilson Copy Share Image
Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
The problem now is that young people, young indigenous people, are not so interested in preserving traditional knowledge. So for them, seeing… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Being the only Indian in class, I had to be able to stand up and defend myself and debate the others when… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for… — Jackie Huggins Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as slave traders, get your language straight, you idiots - they were human traffickers, not traders, you trade… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Indigenous people have been tracking the same 'psychic virus' for many centuries, calling it 'wetiko' in Cree (windigo in Ojibwa, wintiko in… — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our… — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it,… — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
You either keep the forest standing, which takes jobs away from indigenous people who need to feed themselves, or you cut down… — Johan Eliasch Copy Share Image
Indigenous people made huge contributions to this country. The biggest is in sharing the land and resources. People need to see that,… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
I often wonder, when I hear some important speaker rattle off the rote land acknowledgements that have become the standard introduction for… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls. All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that… — Floyd Red Crow Westerman Copy Share Image
In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is… — David Abram Copy Share Image
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