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“Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species.”

“A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness between inner and outer worlds. At times we still feel a return to that unified state. T.S. Eliot’s designation of our return is ‘through the unknown remembered gate.'”

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Author:John Zerzan

“For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of human language is inseparable from the coherence of the surrounding ecology, from the expressive vitality of the more-than-human terrain. It is the animate earth that speaks; human speech is but a part of that vaster discourse.”

Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

“No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely predetermined or fated. Rather like the trickster, Raven, who first gave it its current form, the sensuous world is a spontaneous, playful and dangerous mystery in which we participate, an articulate and improvisational field of powers ever responsive to human actions and spoken words.”

“The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.”

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Author:Junot Diaz

“Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.”

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Author:Alistair Cooke

“For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so integrated with our territory that our protection is tied to our use and our use is tied to our protection. We use the resources on our territory to live.”

People Use Goal Land Resources Protection Territory Tied Indigenous Integrated Indigenous People

Author:Rebecca Adamson

“We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.”

People Planets Indigenous Indigenous People

Author:Rebecca Adamson

“Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.”

Has Beens Done Together Indigenous Making Peace Together Again

Author:Black Kettle

“If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.”

People Ifs Self Culture Loses Land Indigenous

Author:Richard Gere

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.”

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Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“All cultures forged by nations—the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth of Africa and Oceania—are corroded by the American way of life. In this way, neoliberalism imposes the destruction of nations and groups of nations in order to reconstruct them according to a single model. This is a planetary war, of the worst and cruelest kind, waged against humanity.”

“I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations do not have title to their lands because they weren't Christians. That the first Christian Nations to discover an area of heathen lands has the absolute title. This doctrine should be withdrawn and renounced to establish a new basis for relationship between indigenous peoples and other peoples of the world.”

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Author:Floyd Red Crow Westerman

“It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of the earth, modest use of its riches, safeguarding the future of the generations to come, restraint and as high a degree of self-provisioning as possible - can reanimate ancient and still unrealized dreams of a secure sustenence for all.”

Stills Self Use Dream Earth Values Impossible Generations Degrees Ancient Careful Riches Secure Modest Restraint Indigenous Stewardship Aboriginal Safeguarding Unrealized Dreams

Author:Jeremy Seabrook

“Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.”

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Author:Franklin Foer

“The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.”

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Author:Evo Morales

“We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was 'How will this decision we're making today affect our people in the future? These days, decisions are made based on the bottom line.”

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Author:Jane Goodall

“So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.”

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Book:Who Rules the World?

Source: Who Rules the World?

“As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.”

Believe States America I Believe United Responsibility United States Native Indigenous Indigenous People Hawaiians

Author:Daniel Kahikina Akaka

“So what is the Dreaming? I would say the Dreaming is a non-indigenous term used in its broadest sense to describe the stories of our ancestors and how they shaped the land and how they are still part of the land... Across Aboriginal Australia there are as many different terms for Dreaming as there are language groups”

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Author:Hetti Perkins

“Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world.”

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Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.”

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Author:John Shimkus

“Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers. ...How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?”

“Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia’s art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.”

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Author:Quentin Bryce

“We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.”

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Book:The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places

Source: The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places

“Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.”

Peace Tree Seasons Silver Openness Serenity Indigenous Greening Grasslands

Book:The Conservationist

Source: The Conservationist

“Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.”

Firsts Children Nations Walking Moon Our Children Dear Your Children Indigenous Iranian Star Gazing Orbit Satellites

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.”

People Ifs Culture Loss Acknowledge Indigenous Indigenous Culture

Author:Jay Griffiths

“All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.”

People Seems White Goes On Areas Definitions Holiday Racist Wilderness Indigenous Indigenous People

Author:Jay Griffiths

“There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.”

People Country Certain Dog Regions Indigenous Indigenous People

Author:Jessica Hagedorn

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