Indigenous Quotes - Page 6

• We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not a day of national mourning for us. We must leave history behind us and look forward.

  Galarrwuy Yunupingu

  Leadership, Country, People

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• One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.

  Vandana Shiva

  Rights, Diversity, Intellectual

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able to patent what exists as "prior art." But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as "prior art." Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation.

  Vandana Shiva

  Country, Art, Innovation

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.

  John Gimlette

  War, People, Different

  Fuente: www.identitytheory.com

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• The problem now is that young people, young indigenous people, are not so interested in preserving traditional knowledge. So for them, seeing that it was important for us and for the outside world, this traditional knowledge, it was a big deal to them.

  Ciro Guerra

  Gente, Importante, Mundo

  "'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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• Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

  David Suzuki

  Garden, Years, Community

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• I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations do not have title to their lands because they weren't Christians. That the first Christian Nations to discover an area of heathen lands has the absolute title. This doctrine should be withdrawn and renounced to establish a new basis for relationship between indigenous peoples and other peoples of the world.

  Floyd Cuervo Rojo Westerman

  Christian, Land, World

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• The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We need to have bilateral relations characterized by mutual respect.

  Evo Morales

  Government, United States, Needs

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• We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was 'How will this decision we're making today affect our people in the future? These days, decisions are made based on the bottom line.

  Jane Goodall

  People, Decision, Environmental

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• If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

  Richard Gere

  Self, Land, People

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• We must pay close attention to those with another imagination: an imagination outside of capitalism, as well as communism. We will soon have to admit that those people, like the millions of indigenous people fighting to prevent the takeover of their lands and the destruction of their environment - the people who still know the secrets of sustainable living - are not relics of the past, but the guides to our future.

  Arundhati Roy

  Fighting, Past, Land

  "Arundhati Roy: 'Las personas que crearon la crisis no serán las que aporten una solución'". Entrevista con Arun Gupta, www.theguardian.com. 30 de noviembre de 2011.

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• We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.

  Gary Paul Nabhan

  Fate, Land, Needs

  Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Years, Levels, Care

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was knowing how to survive in the wild and knowing how to heal themselves from the plants that grew around them.

  Shailene Woodley

  Knowing, Style, Culture

  Fuente: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Muchas culturas indígenas están profundamente implicadas en el trabajo con espíritus ancestrales, espíritus elementales y demonios. Muchas de estas culturas consideran que, si no se trata adecuadamente con los espíritus ancestrales, éstos regresan e infestan a los vivos en forma de cosas como depresión, patrones adictivos y neurosis. Nosotros, en el Occidente moderno, negamos completamente la existencia de estos espíritus u otros tipos de entidades. Y porque los hemos negado, puede que les hayamos abierto las puertas para que nos manipulen de muchas maneras.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Cultura, Mayo, Neurosis

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population.

  Paul Theroux

  Cities, Rivers, Challenges

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• I noticed - and this is one of the people don't understand of Tony [Abbot] - he grew. To me he grew as opposition leader. He come in - he wasn't really good at the beginning when he was opposition leader. He won the confidence of the Australian people and got the job as Prime Minister. He grew in Indigenous affairs. To me, we just totally disagreed in it, but now we're very much one on one on it.

  Warren Mundine

  Jobs, People, Leader

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• Los programas y la política indígena formarán parte del Departamento del Primer Ministro y del Gabinete porque la política y los programas indígenas no deben ser un añadido, no deben ser una ocurrencia tardía, sino que deben estar en el corazón de un buen Gobierno australiano.

  Isaac Rabin

  Heart, Government, Add

  Fuente: www.sbs.com.au

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• The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the top there were Southern white officers, who led an army that crushed the indigenous resistance - the cacos. A high-ranking U.S. officer said when he arrived, "To think these niggers speak French!" Later, Haitian officers attended the notorious School of the Americas at Fort Benning. The threat from the U.S. is something that is always hanging over people's heads: If we don't behave, we'll have occupation again.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Military, School, Army

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

  Daniel Quinn

  Creer, Hombres, Personas

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• A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

  Isaac Rabin

  Couple, Missing, Outcomes

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• We didn't have an indigenous Taliban before 2008. We didn't have a war in Swat before 2008, we didn't have a war in Waziristan. We never, in our 63-year history, we have never allowed unmanned Predator drones from ANY country to fly over our skies and kill our citizens.

  Fatima Bhutto

  País, Guerra, Años

  Fuente: www.sbs.com.au

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• A good government is one with a duty to help everyone, to maximise his or her potential: Indigenous people, people with disabilities, and our forgotten families.We will not leave anyone behind.

  Warren Mundine

  Government, People, Helping

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• I think this is one of the problems that we're having in Indigenous affairs. Why we're not confronting the issues that are going to resolve it, the anger and the guilt. The anger on the Aboriginal side; the guilt on the non - Aboriginal side. We have got to deal with that, move on and start doing real work.

  Warren Mundine

  Real, Moving, Thinking

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• Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.

  Tim Wise

  Jesus, Reality, White

  "Erin Burnett Outfront". www.cnn.com. December 16, 2013.

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