30 indigenous phrases that demonstrate resistance and strength

There is no difference between the importance, the value, the meaning of white science and indigenous sciences.

Gersom Baniwa

Brazil needs to reconcile with its history; accept that it was “built” over a cemetery.

Daniel Munduruku

The most beautiful thing we have within ourselves is dignity.

Eliane Potiguara

In indigenous territory, silence is ancient wisdom. We learn from our elders to listen rather than talk.

Marcia Wayna Kambeba

By mastering nature, Western man thinks he can achieve happiness. In the context of indigenous society, however, happiness is placed elsewhere and efforts are invested in other fields.

Daniel Munduruku

To be in a state of freedom is to be in a state of existence in peace, but this stage is only achieved when the inner light is on, clear and connected with truth, wisdom, commitment, tolerance and respect for others.

Eliane Potiguara

Attending white institutions does not mean empowering anything.

Ailton Krenak

Pachamama, arise! Nature is yours.

Aline Pachamama

The woman who listens to her intuition, who understands her dreams, who hears the inner voice of the old women and women warriors of her ancestry and who has the suspicious look of the suspicious, is a threat to the natural predator of history and culture.

Eliane Potiguara

There is no “Indian face”, but an identity that makes us belong to a people.

Marcia Wayna Kambeba

If people don’t have deep ties to their ancestral memory, to the references that support an identity, they’re going to go crazy in this crazy world we share.

Ailton Krenak

It is from cunhã that the best of indigenous culture has come to us. The personal cleanliness. Body hygiene. The corn. The cashew. The porridge.

Gilberto Freyre

Lying and manipulation put the lives of people of integrity at risk.

Ailton Krenak

I think that the Universe lost with the extermination of the indigenous people and their culture to the one who lives here today.

Orisvaldo Quiquinato

White people think of the environment as a “natural resource”, as if it were a storeroom where you go and get things, get things, get things.

Ailton Krenak

As long as there is a herb, a tree or a river on the planet, we indigenous peoples will exist.

Edilene Batista Kiriri

Indigenous knowledge consists of the silence of the winds, the song of the birds, the rocking of the leaves, the indigenous gaze, the sway of the maraca and the firm step.

Edilene Batista Kiriri

And you, from white society, can also help in this fight. First, seeking to learn more about the reality of each people. Understanding the indigenous people.

Aurivan dos Santos Barros

Brazil was invaded and taken from the indigenous people of Brazil. This is the real story that really needs to be told.

Marçal Tupa

We are being reminded that we are so vulnerable that if they cut off our air for a few minutes, we die.

Ailton Krenak

White people need to search, deep down in their hearts, for the truth that exists and that they try to hide.

Aurivan dos Santos Barros

They took the life of one of our leaders, but we women have the power to generate another ten.

Neusa Pataxo

Hear what the ancients say. Pay attention to the speech of the wise old men, for they keep the Creative Word.

Ailton Krenak

If you talk to animals, they will talk to you and you will get to know each other.

Chief Dan George

My Indian heart, salute your Indian heart.

Anara Delrey

Now the brand that wants to explore the image of the Indians is this brand of mining, agribusiness, agro is pop, all this capitalist nonsense. But the indigenous people will go through this.

Ailton Krenak

Guaranteeing the rights of the Indians is taking care of nature.

Anara Delrey

We are an administrative problem for the Brazilian state. So, he manages with this thing that is Funai.

Ailton Krenak

Inside us, we have good and bad warriors, we have light and dark, we have courage and fear, we have heaven and hell, we have joys and sorrows, we have life and death.

Anara Delrey

We, women of all indigenous peoples, have similar sufferings. We suffer all kinds of violence and misery, we die in so many ways and in the name of this wealth that is there, in whose hands? Therefore, we need to join our forces, seek ways to collaborate in the struggle for land, for culture, for respect.

Maura Titia