Active Quote by Aung San Suu Kyi

“Indigenous struggle cannot simply be accommodated within other struggles; it demands solidarity on its own terms. The”

— Cindy Milstein

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty...

— Evo Morales

“It is a positive sign that a growing number of social movements are recognizing that indigenous self-determination must become the foundation for all our…

— Harsha Walia

A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for…

— Yitzhak Rabin

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

In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it on their…

— Rebecca Adamson

“A host of scholars – many of whom, like Deloria, have aided petitioning tribes – support the ‘small pie’ theory. They believe that government…

— Mark Edwin Miller

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the case of my country, Guatemala, 65% of the inhabitants are indigenous. The constitution speaks of protection for the indigenous. Who authorized a…

— Rigoberta Menchu

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

— Steven Biko

“In existing writings about federally recognized tribes and their engagement with tribal acknowledgment politics, a palpable theme is clear: presently recognized nations are not…

— Mark Edwin Miller

Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes…

— William J. Clinton