I always find it funny how people usually Americans who know nothing about the world think all "indigenous" people respect and honor "Mother Earth." Now yes some do however some don't even consider the Earth a Mother. Some have Earth Father and Sky Mother IE like Geb and Nut respectively from Egyptian religion and the association with the Divine Mother with the Lunar and Earthly and the Masculine god with the Solar and Heavenly was the early patriarchal strategy of demoting the Mother Goddess when in the early days of humanity it was the other way around and even before that there was a Solar Mother and a Lunar Earthly Daughter. Once more not all "indigenous" people respect the Earth again some do and depending on how close to the Earth they have to but not all do. Some and many have been just as disrespectful, polluting and even as war hungry as any other. Also I have never understood the very loaded term indigenous because all indigenous means is someone who's roots are to the land they are on. Like for instance White British People are indigenous to Britain. Black Ghanians are indigenous to Ghana. Many Native American tribes are indigenous to the Americas. The Japanese are indigenous to Japan or well kinda sorta in that case but we'll say mostly indigenous there. I really dislike the essentialism that many people think of when they think of "indigenous" people because it smacks of paternalistic White Supremacism and the Noble Savage myth.
