“The indigenous peoples of the Amazon are showing us the way. We must listen to them and learn from their good living.”— Claudio Hummes
“When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'”— Vine Deloria, Jr.
“A 'settler' is not merely a land-thief. The term has a much more profound meaning than that, a meaning which is readily understood by indigenous peoples everywhere.”— Ward Churchill
“You can't have a circumstance in which you have a native population and a non-native population in the same territory and not have a colonial dynamic.”— Ward Churchill
“There can be no question that our nation's future is linked to the success of Aboriginal peoples.”— Paul Martin
“The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of the forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings.”— Russell Means