Indigenous Self-Determination Quotes

The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

It is racist, and it was racist when it was created. The Indian Act controls, or seeks to control, the lives of all indigenous people in a way that you and I would never accept.

The federal government needs to make it clear that recognition of Indigenous rights means that when Indigenous bands and their leadership approve projects, we listen.

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

Another important acquisition of territory has also been made since the last session of Congress. The friendly tribe of Kaskaskia Indians with which we have never had a difference, reduced by the wars and wants of savage life to a few individuals unable to defend themselves against the neighboring tribes, has transferred its country to the United States, reserving only for its members what is sufficient to maintain them in an agricultural way

Canada has, entrenched in our Constitution, a world-leading recognition of Indigenous rights.

Why does not the Great Father put his red children on wheels, so he can move them as he will?

You cannot turn the clock back, you cannot give the island of Manhattan back to the indigenous, but on the other hand, you can ensure that the indigenous can maintain their way of life.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.