Indigenous Quotes - Page 2

• 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 has had a lot of money and power.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Forever, Earth

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• So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us.

  Derrick Jensen

  Rocks, Views, Rivers

  Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay (2011). “What We Leave Behind”, p.274, Seven Stories Press

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• Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is key to moving forward.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Moving, Effort, Identity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Issues, Rights, Guatemala

  Source: www.indians.org

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• Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Zoos, Latin, Past

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• That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

  Wangari Maathai

  Beautiful, Flower, Flames

  "Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai: A Global Icon Of Conservation" by Korva Coleman, www.npr.org. September 26, 2011.

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• We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is how we'll generate hope - for all Canadian people.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Past, People, Focus

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Prayer, Spring, Soil

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• You've got so many groups that have no voice in this world - the indigenous, the poor. So how can I use the resources that I have and bring them up, highlight them. And it's not that difficult. It's just choosing and concentrating and focusing.

  Anita Roddick

  Voice, Groups, Use

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• Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

  Mike Myers

  Country, Cities, Musician

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• The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a fact, as is sophisticated militarization. These have been the most significant ingredients in the silent war.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  War, Media, People

  Source: www.indians.org

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• In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

  Frank Church

  Country, Rivers, Environmental

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• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Poverty, Disaster, Social

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work for justice and equality. Not only for just two countries, Bolivia and USA, but for equality around the world.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Usa, Two

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• No one can question the talent of India's youth after the success of the Mars Mission. Everything indigenous!

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, India, Mars

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• I know that most domesticated animals aren't indigenous to this country. So guess what, cat? You can beat it. Go back to Catalina Island or Catalonia, Spain, or Katmandu, or wherever the hell your hairy ass is from! 'Cause this is America and around here - Katmandon't.

  Arj Barker

  Country, Cat, Animal

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• I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.

  Cathy Freeman

  Issues, World, Uninformed

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• The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come with it. The connection does come a lot more from those kids, desert or not. They're stepping out into the world.

  Warwick Thornton

  Teenager, Kids, Bored

  Source: aboriginalartandculture.wordpress.com

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• Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can be used to exclude deer and cattle from newly set trees. As the trees (apple, quince, plum, citrus, fig) age, and the brambles are shaded out, hoofed animals come to eat fallen fruit, and the mature trees (7 plus years old) are sufficiently hardy to withstand browsing. Our forest ancestors may well have followed some such sequences for orchard evolution, assisted by indigenous birds and mammals.

  Bill Mollison

  Animal, Years, Apples

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Religious, Catholic

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• [Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

  Charles Lloyd

  Art, Blessed, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

  Michael Longley

  Art, Might, Firsts

  Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

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• There are certain aspects of me that can be bad-ass sometimes, but being able to push it to the extreme is something I'd love to play. You don't get those roles, as a female, and especially as an indigenous female. There aren't those roles out there, so I want that. I want women to see a strong, sexy female without showing her body too much.

  Tinsel Korey

  Sexy, Strong, Bad Ass

  Source: collider.com

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• Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Mean, Unique, Psych

  Malidoma Patrice Somé (1999). “The healing wisdom of Africa: finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community”, J P Tarcher

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• In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure. The West does not understand how to deal with states that no longer have any authority and are threatened by dissolution. Their efforts failed in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. They are simply not capable of promoting the indigenous economy. Many billions of dollars flooded into Afghanistan, but without any significant effect.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Country, Effort, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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