People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

- Joseph Boyden

There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European co…

- Joseph Boyden

I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it. but there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. W…

- Joseph Boyden

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

- Joseph Boyden

We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

- Joseph Boyden

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows i…

- Joseph Boyden

I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

- Joseph Boyden

The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what…

- Joseph Boyden

Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was the conquerers' side, …

- Joseph Boyden