Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.
For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.
We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.