Jackie Blagsvedt

“Oral traditions remain a most important way of developing trust, sharing information, strategies, advice, contacts, and ideas”
― Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

“History is also about power. In fact history is mostly about power. It is the story of the powerful and how they became powerful, and then how they use their power to keep them in positions in which they can continue to dominate others. It is because of this relationship with power that we have been excluded, marginalized and ‘Othered’. In this sense history is not important for indigenous peoples because a thousand accounts of the ‘truth’ will not alter the ‘fact’ that indigenous peoples are still marginal and do not possess the power to transform history into justice.”
― Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

“Respectful, reciprocal, genuine relationships lie at the heart of the community life and community development”
― Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman