Tribal Peoples
There are thousands of tribal people on Earth, many of whom have seentheir homelands destroyed (for example, Native American Indians), and manyof whom are currently threatened with the destruction of, or eviction from,their homeland. This is a serious problem for humanity's collective We will now discuss some case histories, mostly taken from SurvivalInternational data (Survival International is a charity whose aim is toprotect and conserve tribal lands for indigenous communities). The AwA of Brazil are Brazil's last nomadic tribe, who live in theforests of the Eastern Amazon (www.survival-international.org/awa). Theseforests, as with much of South America's tropical forest, is beingdestroyed at an incredible rate, by logging companies, and by large farmingconglomerates; as such, the native homeland of the AwA is being lost,meaning that their nomadic lifestyle is threatened, and also thatpotentially, the AwA themselves are in danger of being wiped out altogether(www.survival-international.org/awa). The AwA turned to a nomadic lifestyle following the European invasionsof Brazil, and in recent years have turned to living in villages that have
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, andwe therefore yield to our animal neighbours the same right as to ourselves,to inhabit this land". Onequote, again from Survival International (at www. As one AwA individualsays, on the Survival webpage, "I hope when my daughter grows up she won'tface any of the difficulties I've had. Every person in the 'free', developed world takes their right to live wherethey wish, and where they feel they belong, as a given: why is it thatright is not extended to the Yanonami, and other tribal peoples' There aremany explanations for this, some more plausible than others, but all seemto stem from ideas borrowed from Charles Darwin and generations ofethnographers, ideas of cultural relativism, and 'progress': the Yanonami,and similar peoples, the argument goes, are less valuable than Western'civilized' peoples, as they are so primitive, and therefore do not deserverespect, indeed, they need 'civilizing'. In 1999, recordsSurvival, "The UN Human Rights Committee described the situation of tribalpeoples as 'the most pressing issue facing Canadians', and condemned Canadafor 'extinguishing' aboriginal rights" (www. Many ignorant people like to say that indigenous peoples are 'just'drunks, from their behavior following confinement, following displacementfrom their lands: the world seen substance abuse and suicide amongst manyindigenous groups, including the Innu, as we have seen, and perhaps most(in)famously, the Aborigines of Australia. The Native American Indian story was - and continues to be - atragedy, and it is unforgivable that so many peoples with such a strongbond with their land, such wisdom and spirituality, should have beensystematically executed and driven from their spiritual life source. Another example, that Survival champions, are the Yanonami, also fromAmazonian Brazil. As they say, people in glasshouses shouldn'tthrow stones, especially as it has been suggested that alcohol and drugsare regularly introduced to indigenous camps by governments eager tosuppress dissent.
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