I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.
A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.
This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.
Adams has shown a nearly inexhaustible desire, leavened with an equal amount of sheer talent- five decades' worth and counting- in an unrelenting effort to stabilize, strengthen, and improve the standing of indigenous peoples, minority groups, and th...
The purpose of any ceremony is to build stronger relationship or bridge the distance between our cosmos and us. The research that we do as Indigenous people is a ceremony that allows us a raised level of consciousness and insight into our world. Thro...
As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.
I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I was in.
Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-...
There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they encourage their indigenous people to continue to stay there.
The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls. All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are crippled since the culture is engaged only in luring ever more tourists. It is not the contact with an essential...
Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch their films, read their literature, worship in their churches, and attend their schools. Every third-grade student in t...
The Waorani carry out a similar diet with their arrow poison, called curare or, in their language, oomae. This is another amazing product of the indigenous science, a most sophisticated technology that the Waorani extrapolated from an ancient myth.
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.