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January 12
The land is…
A history of the world’s tribal lands in under 60 seconds.
Posts tagged "tribal peoples"
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November 11
Do indigenous peoples benefit from ‘development’?
Learn more from Survival director Stephen Corry’s recent article in the Guardian here.
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November 11
Across the world, tribal peoples’ lands are being stolen and their communities devastated. ILO Convention 169 is the only international law designed to protect tribal peoples’ rights. Most governments refuse to ratify it.
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November 11
For centuries, tribal peoples have had their lands stolen and suffered violence and oppression. But things are changing… join us in celebrating some of the reasons for optimism.
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November 11
‘I am the environment.
I was born in the forest,
and I grew up there. I know it well.
Without land and nature, we can’t live, the world can’t work.
You talk of the planet, yet you don’t
think it has a heart and breathes,
but it does.
You talk politics and study on paper.
But we study in the forest and look
carefully. You don’t know our wisdom.
It’s very different.
We understand that all living things have a noreshi - another living being which is born at the exact same time
as yourself.
Your noreshi may be a bird, or a boar, or a deer, or a fish, or an anteater, a
butterfly or any other kind of living plant or animal.
It rests when you rest, it feeds
when you feed, it sings when you sing.
It dies when you die.’
I was born in the forest,
and I grew up there. I know it well.
Without land and nature, we can’t live, the world can’t work.
You talk of the planet, yet you don’t
think it has a heart and breathes,
but it does.
You talk politics and study on paper.
But we study in the forest and look
carefully. You don’t know our wisdom.
It’s very different.
We understand that all living things have a noreshi - another living being which is born at the exact same time
as yourself.
Your noreshi may be a bird, or a boar, or a deer, or a fish, or an anteater, a
butterfly or any other kind of living plant or animal.
It rests when you rest, it feeds
when you feed, it sings when you sing.
It dies when you die.’
- Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami, Brazil
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October 11
Ritual dances of the Hamar, Ethiopia.
The Gibe III dam that is being constructed along the lower reaches of the Omo Valley will destroy their people’s livelihood.
