Quotes Tagged "indigenous"

I firmly believe that American society would not endure ten years if subjected to half the trials and tortures we’ve put Natives through. And yet Native peoples have not been utterly destroyed, not by the world’s strongest military. They have not been totally assimilated, not by the world’s largest religion. Native religions are indeed concerned with being a good person, respecting one’s family, ancestors, community, and the Earth—and when these principles are lived, there is great strength.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.

The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived from Persia, Siam, Arabia, and Java. Arabic is their sacred language.

Not a centimetre will be demarcated for Indigenous reserves.