Why are tribal people being systematically erased from planet Earth? Zen Gardener has some interesting answers.
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“We are People of the Mountain, children of the wild forest, and for these reasons they are going to have to take our lives” :-Eder Burgos, coordinator of Camawari. The Government is using the massacres as an excuse to militarize the tribal areas.
Until recently, tribal people in remote areas were largely unaffected by the depredations of agribusiness. This is changing and Seed Savers organization could be a good way for people to keep up with the latest developments and work with others to protect themselves. The following article has some background on the problems and some good…
The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) and the West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) today welcomed the removal of Colonel Burhanuddin Siagian from his command in West Papua. Siagian faces two indictments in East Timor for crimes against humanity committed in 1999.
Measures to stop global warming risk being as harmful to tribal peoples as climate change itself, according to a new report from Survival. The report, `The most inconvenient truth of all: climate change and indigenous people’, sets out four key `mitigation measures’ that threaten tribal people:
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…
Satellite photos have revealed how the only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef. Survival International