Quotes about Indigenous peoples

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English is so hierarchical. In Cree, we don't have animate-inanimate comparisons between things. Animals have souls that — Tomson Highway
First off, as has been well stated by many Indigenous Feminists before us, the idea of gender equality did not come from — Erin Konsmo, Feminism FOR REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism
After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolong a dying race's ag — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people. — S. Kelley Harrell, Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine — Kathleen Alcalá, The Flower in the Skull
Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and co — David E. Wilkins, The Hank Adams Reader: An Exemplary Native Activist and the Unleashing of Indigenous Sovereignty
How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historia — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz