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My
experience in living and working with indigenous
people has given me the hope that I have - they
have taught me concretely that humans have the
capacity to be marvelous, and not destructive.
--Juan Pablo Orrego
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All
the issues that we face are connected. Worldwide,
ecosystems are being destroyed, and indigenous
peoples are losing their homelands and their entire
way of life.
~
Ocean Robbins
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All
things are connected like the blood that unites
us, We did not weave the web of life. We are merely
a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we
do to ourselves.
~ Chief Seattle
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When
European explorers 'discovered' lands on the other
continents, there were already people living there.
All too often the explorers took the land away
from the native or indigenous peoples and either
killed them or suppressed them. In many cases,
the native languages and cultures were suppressed
and the natives were forced to adopt Western ways.
Unfortunately, this isn't just a thing of the
past -- many indigenous peoples and their cultures
are still threatened today.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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I
guess you could say that we indigenous peoples
are on the verge of turning it all upside down."
-- Pauline Tangiora
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Indigenous
peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their
distinct political, economic, social and cultural characteristics,
as well as their legal systems, while retaining their
rights to participate fully, if they so choose, in the
political, economic, social and cultural life of the
State.
-- Article 4, from Draft Universal Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples (1993)
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