Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The indigenous peoples never had, and still do not have, the place that they should have occupied in the progress and benefits of science and technology, although they represented an important basis for this development.
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.
I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
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.
What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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