Nicobar has the best forests in the country. I have walked in those forests... It is the property of the Shompen and the Nicobarese so they have to decide the future of Great Nicobar.” ...
The project also poses “a real existential risk” to the two indigenous tribes of the island, the Nicobarese and the Shompen, says Sophie Grig of Survival International. The NGO has coordinated ...
He’s a tribal council member for the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe. Thousands of feet below, desert mountains and rippling canyons stretched toward the horizon. The Colorado River glimmered in ...
The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, the Korean script. By Muktita Suhartono Reporting from Baubau ...
India’s Plans to ‘Develop’ Great Nicobar Island Threatens Its Unique Wildlife and Indigenous Peoples
The Nicobar megapode. Photo courtesy K Sivakumar In 1956 the government demarcated this entire island as a “Tribal reserve,” carving it out for the sole use of the Indigenous Shompen and Nicobarese ...
When Dino Beltran scans a 68-acre vineyard in the heart of Sonoma County, he sees land where his ancestors traded goods with other tribes, long before tourists flocked to the storied California ...
Ravi Velloor speaks with Prof Visvajit Pandya, an anthropologist who has researched tribes in the Andaman and Nicobar islands for four decades. They discuss the fate of the Shompen tribe in Great ...
It was purportedly aimed at stopping the “final extinction of the Indian tribes” and “introducing among them the habits and arts of civilization.” Central to that effort was dissolving Native families ...
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