Quotes About Indigenous

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example of a human being and of my tribe.

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.

What about the duty to protest? What Mark was doing is as old as Thoreau. Civil disobedience is as American as—killing Indians!" His father smiled, just the smallest curving of his mouth. "That answers itself, Son.

Before Sutter, native people had heeded the cycle of the seasons, time was infinite, and life's rhythms were unchanging. Now, for at least part of their lives, some Indians were wedded to a concept that proclaimed that time was limited and that it had economic value. The clang of Sutter's bell announced that time was money, that it marched onward, and that it waited for no man, including Indians in the 1840s.

A grandes voces despertaron a los araucanos.

Among the Red Indians of America there had evidently been something entirely analogous to the Babylonian custom of wearing the horns; for, in the "buffalo dance" there, each of the dancers had his head arrayed with buffalo's horns; and it is worthy especial remark, that the "Satyric dance," or dance of the Satyrs in Greece, seems to have been the counterpart of this Red Indian solemnity;

Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

I don't think there's been that many indigenous players in Australia.

Full Circle integrates the indigenous and modern practices, bringing individuals, community and organizations together as indispensable collaborators realizing a co-creative, sustainable and fulfilling future.

As a proud Indigenous man I have a lot of things that are symbolic and have a lot of meaning to me.

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.

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

Pero algo muy noble en la defensa del mundo indígena y de los secretos del territorio fue sacrificado allí, una deuda de respeto y de dignidad con los pueblos nativos quedó pendiente mucho tiempo en Colombia, y sigue siendo uno de los desafíos de nuestra incorporación en la modernidad.

There is no environment "out there" that is separate from us. We can't manage our impact on the environment if we are our surroundings. Indigenous people are absolutely correct: we are born of the earth and constructed from the four sacred elements of earth, air, fire and water. (Hindus list these four and add a fifth element, space.)

To understand American Indians is to understand America. This is the story of the paradoxically least and most American place in the twenty-first century. Welcome to the Rez.

In a series of rulings known as the Marshall Trilogy, the court affirmed the rights of the Cherokee and ruled the removal of Indians unlawful. Andrew Jackson did it anyway.

Any Indian or mixed-blood who shall pay or offer to pay any money or other valuable consideration to the friends or relatives of any Indian girl or woman, for the purpose of living or cohabiting with said girl or woman,

El nombre de Brasil llegaría más tarde, en el siglo XVI, cuando los primeros colonos empezaron a exportar un árbol que usaban los indígenas para extraer sus tintes y pintarse de aquella manera que tanto fascinó al oficial portugués, y que llamaron pau-brasil, por desprender un color rojizo al hervirse en el agua, lo que sugería las llamas de un fuego o las brasas del carbón ardiendo. De Terra do pau-brasil acabaría abreviándose a Brasil.