20th century Quote by Tom Cole

In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were…

— David Grann

“The damage United Fruit had done to Latin America was beyond imaginable and, even as the Cavendish shift occurred, beyond healing. The dictatorial governments…

— Dan Koeppel

“Before the first settlers arrived on American shores, a massive plague, or series of plagues, had essentially annihilated the indigenous peoples. They”

— Evan Currie

“In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of…

— Peter Singer

“poverty and desperation are fueling much of the environmental crime in Amazon. Twelve million wild birds and animals are poached in Brazil every year,…

— Scott Wallace

“offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found themselves with nothing left to live on. From the…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“I heard a young city boy ask an elderly Papago woman if, lacking a harvesting pole, one could ever collect fruit off the tall…

— Gary Paul Nabhan

“By comparison, the dispossession and destruction of Indigenous populations—which the Society, for one, consistently linked to slavery—was largely ignored by the public. For the…

— Stefanos Geroulanos

“In many cases, this doomed the refugees to starvation. Farmers, therefore, tended to stay put and fight to the bitter end. 12. Tribal warfare…

— Yuval Noah Harari

You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate… The real story is that over…

— Patrick Symmes

Indigenous peoples was messed over. It was like a tradition here. We broke every treaty with them that ever was written. I think Andrew…

— Dr. John

Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at…

— Rigoberta Menchu