35 Quotes About Indigenous-peoples

To understand the Dreamtime, you must understand that we do not own the land. The land is our mother and she owns and nurtures us.

Unknown Indigenous people don’t receive any help, they vanish as silently as they have lived.

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

It's time we stop celebrating October 11 as Columbus Day and consider it as "Repentance Day", to acknowledge, and make amends for, the appalling atrocities committed by mindless and heartless oppressors like Columbus.

Unknown Indigenous peoples don’t receive any help; They vanish as silently as they have lived.

I think that the thing I most want you to remember is that research is a ceremony. And so is life. Everything that we do shares in the ongoing creation of our universe.

Being colonized automatically makes you bipolar.

Los blancos hicieron que estas tierras fueran extranjeras para el indio; hicieron que el indio comprara con su sangre el aire que respira.

I have a real problem when those people preferring to affirm an African or even a Spanish side to their history say that I can't affirm who I am as an indigenous person, as though everybody else is entitled to be who they are on our ancestral homeland, except us.