Survival International have produced a really good set of articles about the Awá in the Amazon. They give a good insight into a different way of living, as well as ways to help ensure it is not wiped from the face of the earth. Well worth a look.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian reservation known as Raposa-Serra do Sol should not be broken up. A powerful group of rice farmers who live inside the reserve wanted the reserve’s boundaries changed so they could remain. But by 10-1 the judges ruled that the reserve should remain intact. The President of the…
Why are tribal people being systematically erased from planet Earth? Zen Gardener has some interesting answers. The Venus Transit and the Lost Civilizations of Earth « Just Wondering – Alternative News and Opinions. [saved as pdf just in case: zengardner.com-The_Venus_Transit_and_the_Lost_Civilizations_of_Earth]
ECOTERRA Intl.—one of the co-founders of the original campaign—warned that the indiscriminate counting of even GM-trees planted by industries into the statistics of the now UNEP-led initiative gives a false picture and bears grave dangers. “A serious indigenous tree planting campaign carried out by honest people has been hi-jacked for the PR purposes of the…
Yammu and Kashmir’s traditional graziers, the nomadic Gujjars, rue the dying out of several indigenous species of goat and sheep after the introduction of foreign high-yielding breeds. The nomadic Gujjars move to highland pastures in summers and come down to the plains when winters set in. “These foreign breeds are not successful for nomadic conditions,”…
Human thought is inextricably tied to language. Diversity of language indicates diversity of humanity, so when a language dies, we are all impoverished. It seems from reading the articles listed below that only a couple of NGOs and some academics are concerned that the last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the…