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So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most…

— Derrick Jensen

“The fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural…

— Derrick Jensen

For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried…

— Derek Walcott

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

— Melanie Fiona

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

— Ram Dass

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I…

— Matthew Settle

For me, Westerns are about how people are on a frontier, between society and the wild, and what being in that middle ground makes…

— Nia DaCosta

American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in…

— Wesley Morris

The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also…

— Samuel Ruiz

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western…

— Steven Pinker

In all of my books, I've emphasized that the fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that, for even the most…

— Derrick Jensen

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype…

— Ricky Schroder