31 Quotes About First-nations

The time has come for you, your Tribe, and all First Peoples. Together, you must learn, remember, and teach the languages, songs, and stories of your ancestors so you may rise once again as true Shepherds of Earth. Teach your quiet light and wisdom to all that they may know, love, and honor all Spirits and the circle of life.

May your footsteps leave only friends behind.

When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life was written by white people through their eyes.Now, Aboriginal writers can tell their stories. They have always been our narratives to tell, not others.

Using Wiradjuri language on the cover of my novel makes a strong statement … regarding the reclamation and maintenance of the traditional language of my family.

But when you’re away for too long, you forget things, and they want it that way. They used to steal children: cut their hair, make them speak English and wear European clothes. They want us to assimilate, because that’s how they’ll beat us, by making us forget who we are.

They are caught between one world and another, and they no longer belong anywhere.

Go to your elders. You should ask them about your country and your totem. Because that is your identity. A blackfella with no identity is a lost blackfella. He don't know where he belongs.

Schoolteachers teach what they and others know. Forest teachers - bear, wolf, lynx, beaver, bird, every flower and tree - teach us how to live, love, and grow.

Teach them a spider does not spin a web. Spiders spin meaning. Cut one strand and the web holds. Cut many, the web falls. With the web's fall, so too falls the spider. Break the web. Break the spider. So breaks the circle of life.