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title: "Best Indigenous Wisdom"
description: "Browse 425 Indigenous quotes by 282 authors. Discover the best Indigenous sayings and thoughts."
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> [The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlie-cook/the-idea-of-regularly-acknowledging-our-indebtedness-to-the-natural/)

[Charlie Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlie-cook/)

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> [How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ralston-saul/how-can-we-possibly-say-the-root-of-the-canadian-approach-to/)

[John Ralston Saul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ralston-saul/)

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> [In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warwick-thornton/in-most-of-my-films-i-write-the-music-into-the-script-i-m-listening/)

[Warwick Thornton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warwick-thornton/)

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> [In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-adamson/in-a-society-where-all-are-related-simple-decisions-require-the/)

[Rebecca Adamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-adamson/)

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> [To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-lenz/to-run-away-from-life-and-desire-is-impossible-because-you-are-life/)

[Frederick Lenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-lenz/)

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> [There's a lot of indigenous wrestling styles there that used to be a lot more popular and stronger within the European continent.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-barnett/there-s-a-lot-of-indigenous-wrestling-styles-there-that-used-to-be-a/)

[Josh Barnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-barnett/)

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> [For me it's about supporting our Indigenous kids and completing that whole journey: early childhood, primary school, high school, university and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-goodes/for-me-it-s-about-supporting-our-indigenous-kids-and-completing-that/)

[Adam Goodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-goodes/)

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> [“The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/the-global-indigenous-cause-reached-a-major-milestone-in-2007-when/)

[Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/)

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> [I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/floyd-red-crow-westerman/i-would-like-to-quote-a-very-prejudicial-doctrine-that-was-handed/)

[Floyd Red Crow Westerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/floyd-red-crow-westerman/)

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> [In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/in-the-present-the-way-benevolence-is-expressed-is-in-conceptualizing/)

[Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/)

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> [There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-rosovsky/there-seems-also-to-be-a-tremendous-risk-to-indigenous-cultures-if-we/)

[Henry Rosovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-rosovsky/)

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> [Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-stein/because-ajamu-baraka-speaks-in-the-language-of-his-community-and/)

[Jill Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-stein/)

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> [If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-parenti/if-one-looks-into-the-genealogies-of-many-old-families-one-discovers/)

[Michael Parenti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-parenti/)

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> [Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilma-mankiller/though-many-non-native-americans-have-learned-very-little-about-us/)

[Wilma Mankiller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilma-mankiller/)

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> [Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rigoberto-gonzalez/matt-mason-must-be-declared-the-poet-laureate-of-the-midwest-no-other/)

[Rigoberto Gonzalez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rigoberto-gonzalez/)

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> [A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suketu-mehta/a-city-like-bombay-like-new-york-that-is-a-recent-creation-on-the/)

[Suketu Mehta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suketu-mehta/)

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> [The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-theroux/the-united-states-is-a-world-unto-itself-we-have-mountains-we-have/)

[Paul Theroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-theroux/)

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> [Every country that meets Buddhism molds it into their own indigenous religion, as America will. A very clear example of this is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tenzin-palmo/every-country-that-meets-buddhism-molds-it-into-their-own-indigenous/)

[Tenzin Palmo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tenzin-palmo/)

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> [Now goverments are a different thing. Presidents who do not want me. As I said, an African-American discriminates against an indigenous Bolivian.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evo-morales/now-goverments-are-a-different-thing-presidents-who-do-not-want-me-as/)

[Evo Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evo-morales/)

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> [Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-jordan/let-s-all-understand-that-these-guiding-principles-cannot-be/)

[Barbara Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-jordan/)

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> [Film is the packaging of information in cans. Videotape is involved with the feeding back of process. Film rips information away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ryan/film-is-the-packaging-of-information-in-cans-videotape-is-involved/)

[Paul Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ryan/)

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> [Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-rudd/because-the-time-has-come-well-and-truly-come-for-all-peoples-of-our/)

[Kevin Rudd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-rudd/)

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> [The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rigoberta-menchu/the-media-and-politics-have-never-allowed-our-people-to-speak-through/)

[Rigoberta Menchu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rigoberta-menchu/)

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> [Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-spade/intellectual-traditions-emerging-from-populations-that-have-always/)

[Dean Spade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-spade/)

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> [We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-goodall/we-seem-to-have-lost-the-wisdom-of-the-indigenous-people-which/)

[Jane Goodall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-goodall/)

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> [The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/evo-morales/the-relationship-between-the-government-of-the-united-states-and/)

[Evo Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/evo-morales/)

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> [“There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-manuel/there-is-room-on-this-land-for-all-of-us-and-there-must-also-be-after/)

[Arthur Manuel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-manuel/)

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> [The problem now is that young people, young indigenous people, are not so interested in preserving traditional knowledge. So for them, seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ciro-guerra/the-problem-now-is-that-young-people-young-indigenous-people-are-not/)

[Ciro Guerra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ciro-guerra/)

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> [Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zoe-helene/wherever-wolves-run-free-indigenous-cultures-have-revered-them-as/)

[Zoe Helene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zoe-helene/)

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> [“Indigenous people have been tracking the same 'psychic virus' for many centuries, calling it 'wetiko' in Cree (windigo in Ojibwa, wintiko in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-levy/indigenous-people-have-been-tracking-the-same-psychic-virus-for-many/)

[Paul Levy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-levy/)

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> [At the end of the day, these are issues that need to be discussed: femicides, among other things - immigrant rights, women's'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruben-isaac-albarran-ortega/at-the-end-of-the-day-these-are-issues-that-need-to-be-discussed/)

[Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruben-isaac-albarran-ortega/)

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> [In the case of my country, Guatemala, 65% of the inhabitants are indigenous. The constitution speaks of protection for the indigenous. Who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rigoberta-menchu/in-the-case-of-my-country-guatemala-65-of-the-inhabitants-are/)

[Rigoberta Menchu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rigoberta-menchu/)

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> [Being the only Indian in class, I had to be able to stand up and defend myself and debate the others when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/perry-bellegarde/being-the-only-indian-in-class-i-had-to-be-able-to-stand-up-and/)

[Perry Bellegarde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/perry-bellegarde/)

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> [I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winona-laduke/i-think-of-some-of-my-friends-who-have-passed-to-the-spirit-world-but/)

[Winona LaDuke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winona-laduke/)

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> [We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-huggins/we-must-respect-each-other-s-right-to-choose-a-collective-destiny-and/)

[Jackie Huggins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-huggins/)

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> [Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/suppose-vietnam-could-separate-itself-from-the-american-dominated/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-cole/the-ocaina-and-many-of-the-other-indigenous-peoples-of-the-amazon/)

[Tom Cole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-cole/)

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> [ Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native \[sic\] Americans continue to cling to the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-fischer/many-of-the-tribal-reservations-today-remain-mired-in-poverty-and/)

[Bryan Fischer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-fischer/)

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> [Australia is a very healthy country which goes along with the fact that it's very high on the Human Development Index, high…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-marmot/australia-is-a-very-healthy-country-which-goes-along-with-the-fact/)

[Michael Marmot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-marmot/)

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> [As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-rudd/as-nations-we-should-also-commit-afresh-to-righting-past-wrongs-in/)

[Kevin Rudd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-rudd/)

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                        "text": "In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as a whole, not merely a part of it, that must survive. This is the indigenous understanding. It is the understanding in a global sense. We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.",
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                        "text": "To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.",
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                        "text": "I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations do not have title to their lands because they weren't Christians. That the first Christian Nations to discover an area of heathen lands has the absolute title. This doctrine should be withdrawn and renounced to establish a new basis for relationship between indigenous peoples and other peoples of the world.",
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                        "text": "In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.",
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                        "text": "There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We are, for example, dealing with ancient and very highly-developed cultures in Korea, Japan, China and the Middle East. What is the impact on cultural and scholarly vitality forcing everyone to do their work in English? I do not have an answer, but this issue has been very much on my mind.",
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                        "text": "Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole new demographic of voters who have been locked out? - African-American and black and brown people and indigenous people? - who have felt like this system has no place for them. And he is unapologetic about standing up for the rights of the oppressed people and against colonialism and against imperialism.",
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                        "text": "If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.",
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                        "text": "Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in the United States is presented with the concept of Europeans discovering America as a \"New World\" with fertile soil, abundant gifts of nature, and glorious mountains and rivers. Only the most enlightened teachers will explain that this world certainly wasn't new to the millions of indigenous people who already lived here when Columbus arrived.",
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                        "text": "Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland.",
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                        "text": "A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As I have discovered, having once moved, it is difficult to stop moving.",
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                        "text": "Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.",
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                        "text": "Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous people, populations labeled physically or mentally unfit, black people, migrants, women, prisoners - have always produced robust critiques of the what Dylan Rodriguez calls \"white bourgeois freedom.\"",
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                        "text": "The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.",
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                        "text": "“There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice for Indigenous peoples. That is all we ask. And we will settle for nothing less.”",
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                        "text": "Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature's dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction.",
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                        "text": "At the end of the day, these are issues that need to be discussed: femicides, among other things - immigrant rights, women's' rights, indigenous people's rights, animal rights, Mother Earth's rights. If we don't talk about these topics, then we have no place in democracy. It won't exist. Democracy isn't just voting; it's relegating your rights.",
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