pdf Sustaining and Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ Self-Determined Development: 20 Years After Rio (Volume 1)
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Sustaining and Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ Self-Determined Development - 20 Years After Rio (Volume 1).pdf
Indigenous Peoples have something to offer in this equation for survival. We have the perspective of time. Living in one place for thousands of years has given us an understanding of the complexities of life forces. Our languages are libraries of knowledge that may contain keys to survival... One of our Elders said a long time ago that there will come a time when we will cease to live and begin to exist. For the sake of life and our grandchildren, we cannot let that happen in our generation.
- Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper
Onondaga and Seneca Nations, Iroquois Confederacy