Quotes About Indigenous

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.

Not a centimetre will be demarcated for Indigenous reserves.

lemon-mint monarda, which looks like purple pagodas and makes an effective insect repellent and a tangy tea; brown-eyed Susans, whose root juice the Cherokee used to treat earache;

Per una tribù indigena del Paraguay, o forse della Bolivia, il passato è ciò che ci sta davanti, perché possiamo vederlo e conoscerlo, e il futuro, invece, è ciò che ci sta dietro: ciò che non vediamo né possiamo conoscere.

I put it on myself to be a role model for all Australian kids, especially indigenous kids.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

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.

The way that I represent Australia and indigenous Australia affects other people as well from other cultures.

I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.

I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.

I'm connected with my indigenous roots.

The AFL and NRL have done an awesome job every season in acknowledging Australia's culture and Indigenous culture.

I am delighted to see the government spending more money to improve Indigenous life, and I would be happy to see even more spent.

For me, Cathy Freeman was definitely my idol and inspiration growing up. Everyone saw what she achieved on the track... but for me it was how she carried herself as an indigenous woman. For me, that's what caught my eye and why I wanted to be like her.

Being Indigenous, I feel very proud being an Australian and there are so many stories I want to tell.

It is racist, and it was racist when it was created. The Indian Act controls, or seeks to control, the lives of all indigenous people in a way that you and I would never accept.

There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.

This is an Australia I'm willing to celebrate; an Australia that listens, learns and empathises with our Indigenous people.

The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.

Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?

The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.

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.

The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.