What we do to our native Australians, our own indigenous people, is nothing short of horrific.
Why is it that we ask the question about whether or not Indigenous people should have clean drinking water? We've got to take a minute and think why is that even a question. Yes, they deserve clean drinking water.
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.
I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.
You either keep the forest standing, which takes jobs away from indigenous people who need to feed themselves, or you cut down the trees, which affects the climate. In the long term, you have to protect the forest.
We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
Indigenous people in films, it's all, like, nose flutes and panpipes and, you know, people talking to ghosts... which I hate.
When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I was a translator for a missionary group, and I spent years in a Tijuana dump. People were really thrown by the fact that the Mexican poor, many of them pureblood indigenous people, seemed happy.
Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
Why is it that we ask the question about whether or not Indigenous people should have clean drinking water? We've got to take a minute and think why is that even a question. Yes, they deserve clean drinking water.
How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean, we just don't do the same things. What I've said, very simply, is that unlike other colonies, for the first 250 years approximately, indigenous people were either the dominant force or an equal force.
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
In everything I've done, I've always tried to make room for indigenous people, to include them.
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.
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
Indigenous people in films, it's all, like, nose flutes and panpipes and, you know, people talking to ghosts... which I hate.
There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.