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Today, on a worldwide scale, we remain in the same situation as one hundred years ago, only with less land and fewer people.
Speech at NGO Forum (1995)
I haven't seen anyone improve on the tepee-you can have a fire inside it, and you can love it.
Speech (1999)
If private property has found safe haven in the Fifth Amendment, where is common property equally protected?
A Seventh Generation Agreement (1996)
I am fully aware of how little an American education teaches you about Native people.
Speech (1999)
A house is more than a shelter: It is home, it is something that reflects you.
Speech (1999)
I always greet people in my language because I believe that cultural diversity is as beautiful as biodiversity, and that is reflected in language.
Speech (1999)
Forests are worth more standing than cut.
Speech (1999)
It's hard to tell people to vote when their votes don't seem to count.
Reflections on the Republic of Dubya (2001)
The first 100 days of the Bush Administration have been an unbelievable nightmare.
Reflections on the Republic of Dubya (2001)
Public policy is lagging behind our ability to destroy ourselves.
A Seventh Generation Agreement (1996)
There is a direct relationship between the loss of cultural diversity and the loss of biodiversity. Wherever Indigenous peoples still remain, there is also a corresponding enclave of biodiversity.
There is, in many Indigenous teachings, a great optimism for the potential to make positive change. Change will come. As always, it is just a matter of who determines what that change will be.
Indian people know how to take care of this land.
Interview with Democracy Now (2020)
While Native peoples have been massacred and fought, cheated, and robbed of their historical lands, today their lands are subject to some of the most invasive industrial interventions imaginable.
The public lands and the Native lands should be protected for the public and the Natives, not necessarily some mining corporations.
Interview with Democracy Now (2020)
Seventy-five percent of the world’s mining corporations are Canadian, and all through Latin America there’s human rights violations.
Interview with Democracy Now (2021)
Enbridge and the Walz administration are climate criminals.
Interview with Democracy Now (2021)
There’s a price to destroying boreal forest.
Interview with Democracy Now (2018)
There should be beauty in "process," whether it is harvesting with intelligence, whether it is the use of recycled materials, or whether it is observing energy efficiency.
Speech (1999)
The Earth is our Mother. From her we get our life, and our ability to live. It is our responsibility to care for our Mother, and in caring for our Mother, we care for ourselves.
Speech at NGO Forum (1995)