Indigenous-peoples Quote by Yamin Kogoya

“Papuan ancestors never begged for survival. They engineered it. They did not ask the world for permission to exist; they organised their lives in…

— Yamin Kogoya

“An Indonesianised Papuan mind is more dangerous to Papua’s sovereignty than an Indonesian weapon.”

— Yamin Kogoya

“The poor were born survivors, but their equity was bound to the land—dwelling, farm, animals.”

— Isham Cook

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

“My native land is all lands, In no particular direction. My monastery is the solitary mountains, In no particular place. My family is all…

— Shabkar

“But the real kicker came with the revelation that Denisovan DNA was alive and well in contemporary Melanesians—the indigenous people of Fiji, Papua New…

— Adam Rutherford

“Our ancestors had fought and murdered one another, married and forged alliances, founded countries. At their best - but only for selfish reasons -…

— Andrei Codrescu

“There were hundreds of worlds like it, most of them littered with the usual Elder Culture ruins, the usual secrets waiting to be unlocked.…

— Paul McAuley

“Postcolonial nation-building was an extraordinary project: hundreds of millions of people persuaded to renounce – and often scorn – a world of the past…

— Pankaj Mishra

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

“Most nations argue that they are a natural and eternal entity, created in some primordial epoch by mixing the soil of the motherland with…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer