Aboriginal Land Councils

Famous quotes containing the words aboriginal, land and/or councils:

    John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made little progress in aboriginal soul-saving. The Indians answered his pleas with: ‘No, you have taken away our lands, and now you wish to make us a race of slaves.’
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program. Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People (The WPA Guide to Connecticut)

    This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England
    This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
    . . .
    This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)