Country Quote by Perry Bellegarde

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which…

— Alice Walker

I can't imagine what it must be like to be one of the indigenous people of the United States of America. I can't imagine…

— W. Kamau Bell

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

If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life…

— Tania Major

The stories of our Indigenous people have shaped the very foundational fabric of our modern day. And so much of that is just not…

— Lily Gladstone

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom…

— Joe Baca

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 never had, and still do not have, the place that they should have occupied in the progress and benefits of science…

— Rigoberta Menchu

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

— Daniel Quinn

I often wonder, when I hear some important speaker rattle off the rote land acknowledgements that have become the standard introduction for official events…

— Neil Macdonald

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

The Indians, they don't fully understand that a lot of the things that they currently take for granted on those lands, they won't be…

— Orrin Hatch