35 Quotes About Indigenous-peoples

Disadvantages faced by indigenous peoples are related to dispossession and exacerbated by powerlessness and poverty.

...people should have the right to be who they are and not what others tell them to be. All peoples should have a right to dignity and identity is an important part of this ideal.

We need a seat at the table … If we’re not at the table, we’re probably on the menu.

...the bottom line is Columbus Day is just a celebration of genocide.

To remain silent is to be complicit in the face of the increasing injustice, racism, xenophobia, and intolerance we are currently witnessing today.

Would others like their grandparents or great-grandparents to be dug up and put on display? How do you explain to your children why their ancestors are on display and not other groups

Something about it will make sense. The bullets been coming from miles. Years. Their sounds will break the water in our bodies, tear sound itself, rip our lives in half. The tragedy of it all will be unspeakable, the fact that we've been fighting for decades to be recognized as present-tense people, modern and relevant, alive, only to die in the grass wearing feathers.

I do not think I was capable of understanding, as I was only six. My mother became distant and shut her feelings as she left me. How could she explain to me—a six-year-old—what was going to happen to me? This was a hopeless situation for both of us. A mother giving up her child to strangers is one of the hardest things to do, and I would soon know what alone meant.

Fast-tracked development often means that indigenous people and their territories get run over and their rights are not taken into consideration.