Indigenous Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydrocarbons off the ground and destroy the environment. At the opposite extreme are countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, indigenous people around the world, and first nations in Canada and tribal people in India, campesinos in Colombia... They're trying to save the commons.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Powerful, Opposites

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world. The last remnant of the commons is the environment, which the indigenous people are still trying to preserve and we sophisticated rich people are trying to destroy.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Trying, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city, and the great mess. The most handguns, bombs, weaponry, violence, the cop of the world etcetera. All the contradictions. Mediocrity versus something like indigenous jazz, one of the most evolved sophisticated musical forms on the planet.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Land, Cities

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• If you're an Indian, you could be very anxious about some of the Supreme Court's decisions, some of the decisions of policy makers, so maybe a little bit of irony there. But I think our "Savage Anxieties," when I titled the book, I really wanted to focus people on the challenge that tribes in this country, as well as indigenous peoples around the world, are confronting Western civilization with.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Country, Book, Thinking

  "Bill Moyers: It's a Non-Stop Land Grab From the American Indians". Interview with Bill Moyers, www.alternet.org. December 26, 2014.

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• There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle. It's like a river. Once you step into it you become the river. It's not, you go out and click on a couple of charities that you believe in, march in the Women's March, and you're done. Struggle becomes your life, transforming a paradigm that is based on domination into a paradigm of co-operation. Fighting for the liberation of women, of people of color, of indigenous people, of lgbtq communities. Fighting to protect immigrants and assuring the safety of refugees.

  Eve Ensler

  Beautiful, Song, Couple

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• Being the only Indian in class, I had to be able to stand up and defend myself and debate the others when they tried to say: "You Indians get everything free." People have stereotypes of Indigenous people. I learned to challenge in a respectful way.

  Perry Bellegarde

  People, Challenges, Debate

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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• In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  America, Government, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Indigenous people made huge contributions to this country. The biggest is in sharing the land and resources. People need to see that, understand that. Indigenous people should be viewed as the founding peoples of this land.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Country, People, Indigenous People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I never played a rich man, I never played a prince. And to play a sailor or longshoreman you had to make your dance more eclectic and varied, but still keep it indigenous to your nationality, upbringing, and background.

  Gene Kelly

  Men, Play, Sailor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

  James Cameron

  Plight, May, Facts

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• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  Barbara Jordan

  Country, Guiding Principles, Ideas

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Years, Levels, Care

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

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• 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.

  John Shimkus

  Land, People, Age

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• We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.

  Evaristo Nugkuag

  Moving, Cutting, Rights

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• Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

  Sarah Zettel

  Doors, Way, Next

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• An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands and imposition of foreign education, which turns their young people into amnesiacs, threatens the survival not only of these people, but of an entire way of knowing. It is as if one were burning down the oldest universities in the world and their libraries, one after another — thereby sacrificing the knowledge of the world's future generations.

  Jeremy Narby

  Sacrifice, Land, Knowing

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.119, Penguin

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• We're not really indigenous to this world, this world being a temporal plane of reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, World, Reincarnation

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• The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

  Rebecca Adamson

  God, Wisdom, Children

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• We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty.

  Evo Morales

  Honesty, Mean, Community

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• What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Leadership, Men, White Man

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• We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not a day of national mourning for us. We must leave history behind us and look forward.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Leadership, Country, People

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• The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the suggestion I will make to you is that the idea of constant accumulation, which is what America is about, what consumerism, NAFTA are about, means that you always take more than you need and you don't leave the rest. So I suggest that it is possible from an indigenous world view that capitalism is inherently out of order with natural law.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mean, Order, Law

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