Tumblr (3.0; @survivalinternational)http://blog.survivalinternational.org/<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/f4767d8b790cdf94e10fadd75ecc0ca3/tumblr_mrh3janCSP1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>From the hunting peoples of Canada to the hunter-gatherers of Africa, tribal peoples have found ingenious ways of surviving over thousands of years.  </span></p> <p class="p1"><span>To celebrate UN World Indigenous Day, Survival published a gallery of images show-casing some of these extraordinary skills.  This photograph shows  the Moken ‘sea-gypsies’, whose oral history is rich in knowledge of the sea, winds and lunar cycles.  One legend tells of the ‘la-boon’, or ‘the wave that eats people’.  The story has it that just before the ‘la-boon’ arrives, the sea recedes.  When the waves receded prior to the Asian tsunami of 2004, the elders of a Moken village in Thailand recognised the signs and led their community and tourists safely to higher ground. </span></p> <p class="p1"><span> </span></p> <p class="p1"><span>See more: </span><a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/galleries/ingenious" target="_blank">http://www.survivalinternational.org/galleries/ingenious</a></p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/58150730122http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/58150730122Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:13:00 +0100ingenious skills of tribal indigenous people moken un indigenous day<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/ca458d039307e21d49af92571ea7e32a/tumblr_mqp0w5T0Zy1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56773305841http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56773305841Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:24:05 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fe79df853d2603a49f0cce96ff27120c/tumblr_mqp0wlTKq01qamtgko2_r2_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56773314775http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56773314775Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:24:00 +0100<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/0fa2e766b86543aa809106ea4d2b6867/tumblr_mqp0xiR6NJ1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><blockquote> <p class="p1"><strong>Victimized Bushmen without legal aid as Botswana government bars British lawyer from the country</strong></p> </blockquote> <p class="p1">Today’s Bushman tribes are genetically closer to the ancestors of all of us than anyone else; they are also the most victimized peoples in the history of southern Africa. </p> <p class="p1">In 1961, The Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) was created to protect their ancestral lands.</p> <p class="p1">However, their reserve lies in the middle of the richest diamond-producing area in the world. <span class="s1">In three big clearances that began in 1997, virtually all the Bushmen were forced off their lands to </span>government eviction camps.</p> <p class="p1">‘If I went to a Minister and said, ‘move from your land,’ he’d think I was mad,’ said a Bushman. </p> <p class="p3">Yet this is what happened to the peoples who once lived from the Zambezi Basin to the Cape.</p> <p class="p4">Today, the Kalahari Bushmen are once again taking the Botswana government to court to demand their right to live on their ancestral land, but their lawyer has been banned from entering Botswana to represent his clients.</p> <p class="p4">Read more: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/9397</p></p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56773334981http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56773334981Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:24:00 +0100<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/30839368f628741276ddfbede3286ab5/tumblr_mqfrrtCLGl1qamtgko1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>A key South American highway connecting Paraguay and Bolivia is being blocked by an Indian tribe angry at the destruction of their rapidly-shrinking island of forest.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><a href="http://survivalinternational.org/tribes/ayoreo" target="_blank"><span>Ayoreo Indians</span></a> today blocked the Trans-Chaco Highway, which forms part of the Pan-American Highway, and have vowed to maintain their protest until outsiders who have occupied their land are removed.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The Indians are angry about the illegal invasion of their land by two Paraguayan farmers, in an area to which the Ayoreo secured official land title 16 years ago.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The farmers and their workers have erected cattle fences and bulldozed wide tracks, and claim that the land belongs to them. They were guarded by police, to prevent any attempt on the Ayoreos’ part to stop the work.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Although most members of the Ayoreo tribe are contacted, some groups are known to <a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/3103-before-contact-on-the-run%C2%A0%E2%80%93%C2%A0including" target="_blank"><span>remain uncontacted in the forest</span></a> in the area now under threat.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The Ayoreo have said to Survival International, ‘We don’t want any outsiders in our territory – it’s dangerous for us, and dangerous for our relatives in the forest. We’ll stay here [on the road] until all the outsiders leave our land.’</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>To help, visit </span><span><a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org//tribes/ayoreo" target="_blank">www.survivalinternational.org//tribes/ayoreo</a></span><span></span></p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56323755459http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56323755459Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:28:00 +0100ayoreo indian blockade Paraguay<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/26c18569b8c20be7cc02b8687256a29f/tumblr_mqfrpzhf2i1qamtgko1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Ayoreo blocking the Pan-American Highway to protest against land invasion. The girls sign reads “bulldozers come out”.</p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56323715170http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56323715170Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:27:00 +0100ayoreo indian blockade Paraguay<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7b96cdb1fa2f4564bd5120b8208cd7a2/tumblr_mqfrkfOJh21qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ayoreo leader Porai Picanerai talks to police.</p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56323595186http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56323595186Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:24:15 +0100ayoreo indian blockade Paraguay<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/ec8910596801f5513fe59b4038a3657d/tumblr_mqfridY34u1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Much of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode land is being deforested, Paraguay.</p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56323551453http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/56323551453Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:23:01 +0100ayoreo indian blockade Paraguay<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpluhrDpMO1qamtgko1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/55086719949http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/55086719949Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:25:00 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/bf7dfc99d1996bcab6dc9f1a41e7dbb8/tumblr_mp9j3qIfIT1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/54345615756http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/54345615756Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:02:14 +0100quote<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cbe1223f96e14eb4455cca6e2285e5f7/tumblr_mowm5tYwE91qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A Guarani woman, Brazil. </p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/53762237942http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/53762237942Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:39:29 +0100<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/8c2904b4ab8877845695582d0e777917/tumblr_moqpoaWLg41qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Innu man, Canada.</p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/53509660519http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/53509660519Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:09:46 +0100<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/b4e1f649c67b24e76dc27129affcc3db/tumblr_mnx501qS3B1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org//tribes/penan" title="Learn more about the Penan." target="_blank">Penan</a> on a fishing journey, Malaysia. </p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/52214680581http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/52214680581Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:52:49 +0100<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/ee6273655500ce181e7755664a4379c9/tumblr_mnlyflZmre1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A Yanomami woman, Brazil. </p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/51716471012http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/51716471012Thu, 30 May 2013 11:57:21 +0100<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/37334c57f0a0d427c6bdd3978e7e475c/tumblr_mnk2g76Fkx1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A Jarawa woman returning to her forest after gathering food on the edges of the Jarawa reserve in the Andaman Islands of India.</p> <p>Every day hundreds of tourists travel along the Andaman Trunk road in the hope of ‘spotting’ members of the Jarawa tribe – treating them like animals in a safari park. </p> <p><span>Help put pressure on the islands’ government by <a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/petitions/boycott-andamans" title="Urgent Petition: Boycott tourism to the Andaman Islands" target="_blank">pledging not to holiday in the Andaman islands</a> while the road remains open to tourists.</span></p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/51634012887http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/51634012887Wed, 29 May 2013 11:28:55 +0100<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/7f26173e47951801ff31b3ccb9383393/tumblr_mnaw0kW8Tp1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Korowai hunter with bow, West Papua.</p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/51218670650http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/51218670650Fri, 24 May 2013 12:31:32 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/513011e4a1b977af9351e5e437288c9d/tumblr_mn9aldN3pO1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>An Arhuaco father and son, Colombia.</p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/51150045050http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/51150045050Thu, 23 May 2013 15:51:13 +0100<img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/6b46065cac755847b5e9fa96bcfa603f/tumblr_mmw2t6mSpX1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Brazilian Asháninka children play football with a ball made of rubber tapped from trees. </p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/50570892109http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/50570892109Thu, 16 May 2013 12:34:18 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f5c8266c29d457d927fc566a801aa037/tumblr_mmuk72TCOx1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Konibú, a shaman of the Akuntsu tribe, with arrows used for hunting.</p> <p>The Akuntsu are a tiny Amazonian tribe of just five individuals. They are the last known survivors of their people and live in Rondônia state, western Brazil.</p> <p><span>In a few decades the Akuntsu will become extinct, and our planet will have lost a unique people, language and culture. <a href="http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/akuntsu" title="Click here to find out more about the Akuntsu." target="_blank">Learn more.</a> </span></p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/50501048144http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/50501048144Wed, 15 May 2013 16:54:38 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/24f29231cce26bd9168b47cf93c157aa/tumblr_mmkzsgAmCs1qamtgko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>The Enawene Nawe smoke fish, which they rely on heavily - they do not eat any red meat.</span></p>http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/50083921123http://blog.survivalinternational.org/post/50083921123Fri, 10 May 2013 12:55:28 +0100