‘To join the white man’s society’ in the words of a Colombian Arhuaco man, ‘is to lose everything which is our own’. It’s simple: resettlement is a bland term for wrenching people away from their lands, home, myths and memories - in short everything that gives their lives meaning - and imposing on them a ‘superior’ culture. Relocated indigenous peoples are amongst the poorest in their countries; the trauma of being uprooted annihilates their self-worth.
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