Sayings about indigenous people
1. "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." - Native American Proverb
2. "We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home." - Aboriginal Proverb
3. "The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies." - Mary Brave Bird, Lakota
4. "We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life." - Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux Chief
5. "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 Menchú, K'iche' Maya Nobel Peace Prize laureate
6. "We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically." - Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist
7. "We are the people who live on this land. We have been here for thousands of years. We are the first people of this land." - Maori Proverb
8. "The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth." - Chief Seattle, Suquamish Tribe
9. "We are the keepers of the land, the protectors of the water, and the guardians of our ancestors' wisdom." - Indigenous Saying
10. "Our ancestors are the roots that hold us to the earth. Without them, we are just leaves blowing in the wind." - Unknown
Above is Sayings about indigenous people.