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But I will not give up my efforts to bring indigenous communities to this fight for the survival of our planet.
We must actively dismantle the hurdles we have created, which are leaving indigenous populations out of conservation efforts.
In 1892, the US Army general Richard Henry Pratt argued that killing indigenous cultures was the only alternative to killing indigenous people.
And until 1978, the government did just that, removing indigenous children from their families and forcing them into boarding schools where they were given English names and punished for speaking their languages.
Destroying the Amazon does not affect just the indigenous people, because we are all connected.
I used to say, Amazon belongs to humanity, and also that humanity needs to take care as the indigenous do in the world.
Or, we transform this crisis into an opportunity to empower indigenous people, to support indigenous people and to save the rainforest and their cultures.
I invite you all, I invite all companies, I invite all governments, all civil society, to listen to indigenous peoples, to go back to our roots.
I guess this crisis is teaching humanity that now you need to listen to us and to support indigenous peoples directly, to support their initiatives directly.
That indigenous people have the answer, and if you want to save the Amazon, we have to take action now.
In particular, I'm meeting a lot of indigenous Central Americans who can no longer sustain themselves by farming, due to catastrophic drought in the region.
This is how communities in Asia managed water, and this is how indigenous peoples in the Amazon managed wildlife.
Whenever we think of indigenous people and landscape, we either invoke Rousseau and the old canard of the "noble savage," which is an idea racist in its simplicity, or alternatively, we invoke Thoreau and say these people are closer to the Earth than we are.
Well, indigenous people are neither sentimental nor weakened by nostalgia.
I met Benki three years ago in Sao Paulo when I'd brought him and other leaders from indigenous peoples to meet with me and leaders from around the world, because we wanted to learn from each other.
Indigenous people, savage.
With an interesting premise (in the conflicts between Europeans and indigenous peoples sometimes the battle lines were not so clear), this should have been a good film.
Well, if you've never seen anything to do with Venezuela, there's a lot of travelogue footage of both Caracas and the countryside (and jungle-side), and of the various native peoples at work and play, as well as plenty of indigenous wildlife.
The Maori is an indigenous tribe and a dangerous people for the Europeans to deal with.
This is a beautifully filmed movie that questions the future of all indigenous peoples, especially nomadic tribesmen.
This series provided clean entertainment which a large majority of Indian television audience watched on their black and white television sets.A funny thing about this series is that it was sponsored by an indigenous company dealing in Ayurvedic products.
Soldier Blue is a movie with pretensions: pretensions to be some sort of profound statement on man's inhumanity to man, on the white man's exploitation of and brutality towards indigenous peoples; a biting, unflinching and sardonic commentary on the horrors of Vietnam.
Horribly inaccurate, this movie does nothing to honor the hundreds of thousands of Dutch, British, Chinese, American and indigenous enslaved laborers that the sadistic Japanese killed and tortured to death.
And though Cortes conquers the indigenous peoples of Mexico, the Aztecs here seem to be played by an all-Hawaiian ensemble.
The Western inter-titles detract from the experience but are in fact a part of the record since they demonstrate how Hollywood tried to put their spin on the lives of an indigenous peoples lives so that they would be appreciated by the audience of the day.
Not only does it document the eternal struggle of indigenous and disenfranchised people to gain their rightful voice but it also shows the United States up for its dishonesty, subterfuge, and blatant disregard for human rights and self-determination.
On a different level, the Danish life is revealed quite different than the image it has by outsiders: the non indigenous immigrants that make a large proportion (actually, the majority) of the Danish citizenry, the graffiti in the Copenhagen suburbs, the taunting of the immigrant girl in the begging of the movie.
I liked the Ewoks representing somehow the indigenous savages and the Vietnamese.
Pakeezah is indigenous to the Sub-Continent and authentic, almost Madam Butterfly-like in plot.
Eskimo is a serious movie about the cultural chasm between an indigenous population and the encroaching white man.
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