Quotes About Indigenous

en un extremo hay sociedades indígenas, tribales, que tratan de detener la carrera hacia el desastre. En el otro extremo, las sociedades más ricas y poderosas de la historia del mundo, como Estados Unidos y Canadá, corren a toda velocidad para destruir el entorno lo antes posible.

Everything, including your set of hand-blown green glass dishes with the tiny bubbles and imperfections, little bits of sand, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indigenous aboriginal people of wherever, well, these dishes all get blown out by the blast. Picture floor-to-ceiling drapes blown out and flaming to shreds in the hot wind.

We gave away our land and our water-ka wai ola, our life source. But we forgot to tell the haole they should love then like we do. That the streams are our brothers. That the earth is our mother.

Settlers needed the land, and if the Indians hadn't learned by then that the white man's treaties were entirely worthless, Ridgeway said, they deserved what they got.

the Indians whom Magellan and his crew would encounter in Rio de Janeiro:

These men are accustomed to bore holes in their lips and cheeks, and in these holes they place bones and stones;

Sex magick existed before Crowley. It is quite ancient, having been observed by Gnostic and Tantric practitioners, and later by the pagan (indigenous) pre-Christian peoples of Europe.

Maria Sabina Magdalena Garcia (July 22, 1894, Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca - November 23, 1985) was a curandera and shaman of the Mazatec indigenous ethnicity of the state of Oaxaca in Mexico. She subverted patriarchal theology by invoking the Divine Feminine in her entrancing chants.

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

sobre la necesidad de proteger y difundir la herbolaria indígena como una práctica médica válida. Podrías reclamar los derechos de los mapuches en la Araucanía frente a las invasiones de sus tierras por colonos blancos. Defenderías la preservación de las lenguas nativas.

Asegurabas que los dirigentes indígenas podían gobernar con más eficiencia el país. Habían heredado sabiduría milenaria y dominaban los secretos más recónditos de la tierra donde habían crecido.

Las nuevas naciones hispanoamericanas, además, confundieron la política con la historia. Para fortalecer su ruptura política con España fueron a buscar su identidad histórica fuera del orbe hispánico, en las raíces indígenas, en la autoctonía criolla y en la invención de un pasado clásico americano. Tuvieron con su raíz española un pleito de negaciones simbólicas que nos confunde todavía.

El indigenismo nace con los primeros gobiernos de la Revolución. Su libro fundador, Forjando patria, de Manuel Gamio, es de 1916. Su idea rectora es "atender al indígena" para que deje de ser indígena, para incorporarlo a la nacionalidad mexicana y a la cultura occidental. La divisa es desindigenizar mexicanizando. Y viceversa: mexicanizar indianizándose.

the Maori people of New Zealand have long practiced a type of tattooing known as ta moko, which is traditionally done with chisels.

You have to look at what the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous people says which is free and prior informed consent. Now, if you say 'we're going to build a pipeline, what does it take for us as the colonial power of Canada to make you agree?' That's not free, prior and informed consent, that's coercion.

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

I can't imagine what it must be like to be one of the indigenous people of the United States of America. I can't imagine watching the news every day - as people debate whose country this is and who should be in charge of it and how to make it great again - and hardly ever see your people brought into the discussion.

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.

Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.

I was taken to a boarding school when I was four years old and taken away from my mother and my father, my grandparents, who I stayed with most of the time, and just abruptly taken away and then put into the boarding school, 300 miles away from our home.

the [Hawthorn] report revealed the logical fallacy that has haunted Indian history and policy in North America since contact - to wit, that all people yearn for the individual freedom to pursue economic goals. Indians are people, ergo, they want to make money and create wealth for themselves and their families.

A great many people in North America believe that Canada and the United States, in a moment of inexplicable generosity, gave treaty rights to Native people as a gift. Of course, anyone familiar with the history of Indians in North America knows that Native people paid for every treaty right, and in some cases, paid more than once. The idea that either country gave First Nations something for free is horseshit.

The fact is, the primary way that Ottawa and Washington deal with Native people is to ignore us. They know that the court system favors the powerful and the wealthy and the influential, and that, if we buy into the notion of an impartial justice system, tribes and bands can be forced through a long, convoluted, and expensive process designed to wear us down and bankrupt our economies. Be good. Play by our rules. Don't cause a disturbance.

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.