Dark el kante
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Posted : Nov 29, 2010 13:06
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...And for more info about the Cofan indigenous pleople go to: http://www.cofan.org/
I leave here some quotations too:
“Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species...”
-Dennis Banks-
"We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along."
-Rebecca Adamson-
"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-
“We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.”
-Rigoberta Menchu
“Any journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. The collision of short and long food chains strategies are at the basis of our current crisis. Indigenous peoples living on their ancestral lands can help industrialized countries by living in a sustainable manner (not the contrary). If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures. The most complex nuclear power station is less important than a tropical tree, and the most simple and sustainable answer more useful than any National Library.”
-Raúl Montenegro
“The forest is not a resource for us, it is life itself. It is the only place for us to live.”
-Evaristo Nugkuag Ikanan |
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