“My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.” PeopleFirstsNationsRightsLandInvolvedMy FamilyDoctorsArtisticPilotsIndigenous Author:Deborah Kara Unger
“Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.” PeopleStillsTwoStatesFightingUnitedUnited StatesLandPercentThirdsScalesCanadaNativeAustraliaIndigenousMiningAboriginalUraniumUranium Mining Author:Winona LaDuke
“If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified land claims, violent acquisition of water and mineral rights, the extermination of indigenous peoples, sales of shoddy and unsafe goods, public funds used for private speculations, crooked deals in government bonds and vouchers, and payoffs for political favors.” IfsLooksGovernmentRunningPoliticalUsedWaterDealsRightsLandGunClaimsSlaveFavorsViolentFundGoodsEpisodesTradingSpeculationIndigenousAcquisitionCrookedMineralsOpiumIndigenous PeopleUnsafePayoffTraffickingGenealogyExterminationVouchersBootlegging Author:Michael Parenti
“Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature's dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction.” UseRunningAmericaMotherCultureEasyLandDogHavensNegativeUnityMythLoyaltySymbolsFree WillStereotypeExtinctionIndigenousFearlessnessMother NatureCattleNorth AmericaPersecutedPublic LandsIndigenous CultureRanching Author:Zoe Helene
“As people who are women, who are Indigenous and live on Indigenous lands, we know, and this is something I understand the older I get, that they don't visit the same way the postman may visit but they do visit. They visit in ways that our modern society often disregards and considers immaterial or unreal.” PeopleKnowsWayMayModernLandIndigenousUnrealDisregardModern SocietyPostman Author:Sandra Cisneros
“To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming over here, is one thing. But to say that the whole of the American prosperity was based on exploiting the indigenous population would be a great mistake.” MenWholeWould BeAmericaWhiteMistakeOne ThingLandAmountLuckyPopulationProsperityNativeWhite ManIndigenousUnluckyGreat Mistakes Author:Amartya Sen