Family Quote by Tania Major

“For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.”

— Deborah Kesten

Indigenous people made huge contributions to this country. The biggest is in sharing the land and resources. People need to see that, understand that.…

— Perry Bellegarde

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

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

I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially…

— Lord Byron

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

“There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice for Indigenous…

— Arthur Manuel

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

“Ownership shatters ecology. For the land to survive, for us to survive, it must cease to be property. It cannot continue to sustain us…

— Aurora Levins Morales

The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth.

— Maria Montessori

I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological…

— Helena Norberg-Hodge

It is our duty to preserve huge tracts of land in something resembling its native condition. The biological interactions necessary to insure the continuities…

— William Kittredge