Indigenous health 4 - Disappearing, displaced, and undervalued: a call to action for Indigenous health worldwide

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality; death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilisations and cultures, progress weakens life and favours death. The ideal of a single civilisation for everyone implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life!(1).