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INDIGENOUS RIGHTS QUOTES

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* I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.
-- Edward James Olmos

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* I guess you could say that we indigenous peoples are on the verge of turning it all upside down."
-- Pauline Tangiora

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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