Quotes About Indigenous

Precisamos, amigos e amigas, nos libertar desse conceito que desvaloriza a nossa diversidade. Precisamos entender que não existem índios no Brasil. Precisamos aprender como chamá-los, festejá-los, conhecê-los e, principalmente, valorizá-los. Precisamos encontrar um lugar para eles dentro de cada um de nós. E a maneira em que mais bem podemos fazer isso é conhecendo-os da melhor forma possível.

Muito recentemente é que nós estamos conquistando espaço para podermos contar a história segundo o nosso olhar, o olhar dos indígenas, ou seja, sob uma visão de mundo particular. Não se pode pensar que a nossa história segue o mesmo percurso da ocidental. E isso é um outro nó, que necessita ser desatado.

Desenvolvemos determinado pensamento sobre o índio, o qual vem sendo repetido à exaustão desde há muito tempo, revelando que não sabemos, de fato, quem é o índio e quais são suas especificidades culturais.

Os tupis – assim chamados por causa da língua – tinham uma tradição agrícola e se fixavam mais em regiões de solo fértil. Essa prática serviu como desculpa para a escravização desses indígenas, que foram submetidos a maus-tratos e desconsiderados em sua sabedoria ancestral. Já os povos nômades – e que, portanto, pouco sabiam sobre plantar – acabaram sendo perseguidos, maltratados, exterminados e desqualificados para o trabalho.

Os [povos] que aqui estavam eram falantes do tupi, língua que depois foi aprendida pelos colonizadores e missionários e se tornou oficial até o século XVIII, quando foi proibida pelo Marquês de Pombal.

índios" foram, na verdade, uma invenção dos colonizadores a fim de reduzi-los e escravizá-los.

While persons brought up within literate culture often speak about the natural world, indigenous, oral peoples sometimes speak directly to that world, acknowledging certain animals, plants, and even landforms as expressive subjects with whom they might find themselves in conversation.

Stupid gringos, Pico says. Letting Indians tell them what to call them in English. The gringos say "Mexican," not "Mexicano," right? They say "Spanish," not "Español," don't they? So why let the Indians tell them to call them Toohohoo Odohoo or whatever the fuck instead of Papago.

For small Indian tribes, this policy was literally genocidal. One physician that "[a]ll the pureblood women of the Kaw tribe of Oklahoma have now been sterilized. At the end of the generation the tribe will cease to exist.

The ultimate offense was the idea that Europeans "discovered" the New World to begin with, as if the people living here didn't exist before Europeans saw them.

That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a picture of the die-off that is truly apocalyptic; the lived experience of the indigenous communities during this genocide exceeds the worst that any horror movie has imagined.

A table of statistics for the island of Hispaniola tells the story: Date: 1492 Native Population: ~500,000 (disputed) Date: 1508 Native Population: 60,000 Date: 1510 Native Population: 33,523 Date: 1514 Native Population: 26,334 Date: 1518 [before smallpox] Native Population: 18,000 Date: 1519 [after smallpox] Native Population: 1,000 Date: 1542 Native Population: 0

Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.

Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.

The Indians, of course, had no recourse in the courts, where they were forbidden to testify; "[we are] not heard when we speak the truth," they protested.149 By 1826 scarcely 100 Catawbas remained in two small villages, and in 1840 the remaining Catawbas signed away what little was left of their land in return for a tract in North Carolina which they never received.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.

The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.

To accommodate the rapid influx of Europeans, entire cities were built on the outskirts of Cairo, far away from the indigenous population. The foreigners quickly took charge of Egypt's principal export of cotton. They built ports, railroads, and dams, all to implement colonial control over the country's economy. With the construction of their crowning achievement, the Suez Canal, Egypt's fate as Britain's most valuable colony was sealed. To pay for these massive

Malay man-catcher.

Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders' explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and irresistible pathogens, as well as the Indians' own ever-deepening despair—was just one-tenth of what it had been when Columbus first ventured ashore.

A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

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

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.