He then took up a hard-charging political career, campaigning as a populist who nimbly used Guaraní, Paraguay's widely-spoken indigenous language, in his speeches.
WHEN he is addressing rural audiences in the Andean highlands, Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president, likes to sprinkle his speeches with phrases in Quichua, the main indigenous language, which he picked up during a year of volunteer work.
The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, delivered the report in parliament on Wednesday, his first major speech on Indigenous affairs since taking the Liberal party leadership from Tony Abbott in September.
In February 2016 our prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, gave his first speech on Indigenous affairs using the language of the Ngunawal people of Canberra.
Would the Indigenous response to the speech have been less positive if Keating had been seen to be including Indigenous people in his call to open hearts, asking them to accept the reconciliation efforts of the non-Indigenous?
Conversely, would the Indigenous response to the speech have been more unconditionally positive if Keating had been crystal clear that he was calling on only the non-Indigenous to open their hearts?
"The Kraut," he told me, with that same fist-to-the-face laugh, is his affectionate term for Marlene Dietrich, an old friend, and is part of a large vocabulary of special code terms and speech mannerisms indigenous to the Finca Vigia.
Catholic officials want to avoid the kind of contretemps that occurred in Germany, in 2006, when the pope offended Muslims by quoting a 14th century slur on Islam, and in Brazil last year, when a line in a speech infuriated indigenous people.
And he voiced his support for indigenous rights during his speech to Congress Thursday, stating, "Tragically, the rights of those who were here long before us were not always respected.
