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‘Can 17 lives be paid for with free rice?’

Kamla Kaka, 25, Tribal Activist Why were you angry with the CRPF? At night on 28 June, we were attending a seed festival in our village when CRPF personnel surrounded us and started firing. Many of us lay down on… Continue Reading →

Mumbai’s ‘castaways’ still wait for home #tribals #indigenous

5 November 2012 By Zubair Ahmed BBC Hindi, Mumbai  There is no water or electricity supply in the settlement and villagers have to walk for miles to get water On the plateau of a verdant hill range, near India‘s commercial capital,… Continue Reading →

Vidarbha -Every 4th house in this village has a mentally ill person shackled in chains #Indiashame #Wtfnews

In Vidarbha, a village of the damned Sukhada Tatke TNN, Nov 4, 2012 Unmindful of the scorching heat and the iron chains around his legs and hands, Raju alias Rajendra Dhere crouches on the ground, tracing his name in the… Continue Reading →

#India-Keonjhar tribals up in arms over #mining plans in Khandadhar #Vedanta #Posco

TNN | Oct 30, 2012 KEONJHAR: Fear of displacement stalks tribals inhabiting Banspal block of Keonjhar district abutting the beautiful Khandadhar waterfall with hundreds of companies, including South Korean steel behemoth Posco, applying for lease to mine the Khandadhar hill. A Niyamgiri-type… Continue Reading →

#India #Rajasthan -Cheating #tribal patients under the grab of free treatment #mustshare

A compplaint lettre to Medical Council of India The Chairman, Medical Council of India, New Delhi Dear Sir: Please find attach a pamphlet circulated by the NIMS Medical College and Hospital (NIMS University), Shobha Nagar, Jaipur – Delhi Highway, Jaipur… Continue Reading →

#India- Tribal woman in Prison does not understand court judgement #Indigenous #AP #Chattisgarh #Gondi

Dr Haneef from Khammam in Andhra Pradesh is talking to Sodey Bhimamma a Gondi Adivasi from Chhattisgarh outside a court. Bhimamma has been sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment on charges of murdering her husband. She tells Dr Haneef that… Continue Reading →

#India- Activists step up demand for #Dayamani Barla’s release

  SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT RANCHI, October 27, 2012, The Hindu Activists and supporters of Dayamani Barla, award-winning adivasi activist and journalist who was given bail but arrested soon after in a second case on October 19 in Ranchi, have prepared to intensify… Continue Reading →

#Brazil -Indian #Tribe threatens mass suicide if evicted from homeland – #GuaraniKaiowa

About 170 members of the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowa tribe in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul have threatened to commit mass suicide if they are evicted from their agricultural farm. This week, a Brazilian court ordered members of the… Continue Reading →

#India #Chhattisgarh, a lifeline gone without trace #Tribal #Indigenous #aboriginal

Rogda (Chhattisgarh), October 24, 2012 In Chhattisgarh, a lifeline gone without trace Suvojit Bagchi, The Hindu , Oct 24,2012 The Rogda water reservoir site. Photo : Special Arrangement Special Arrangement Ramkhilaon, a construction worker at the dam in the 50s, says those… Continue Reading →

#India -‘I have a problem with the makeover of tribal culture’ #Indigenous #aboriginal

October 24, 2012 , The Hindu NIRANJAN MAHAWAR: ‘Market forces are also changing artefacts.’ Photo: Rupesh Yadav Niranjan Mahawar, 75, is a self-taught ethnologist of Chhattisgarh. He spent almost five decades in southern Chhattisgarh to study the life and art… Continue Reading →

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