Bulletin Issue 194 – September 2013

OUR VIEWPOINT

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  Isolated indigenous peoples: Growing threats and hope for the future

  Several years ago, a photograph made headlines around the world. In it, an indigenous man in a small village in the middle of the rainforest is aiming a bow and
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN ISOLATION: VOLUNTARY CHOICE OR SURVIVAL STRATEGY?

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  Debunking myths: An overview of uncontacted peoples

  Photo: Survival International.  It is remarkable that in the second decade of the 21st century much of the available evidence points to the existence of about 100 uncontacted tribes living
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  Genocide and isolation

  Photo: By Pablo Cingolani. A Yuqui indigenous girl from the Bolivian Amazon. The Yuqui were a people living in isolation until they were contacted by missionaries between 1967 and 1991.
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  Indigenous peoples in “voluntary” isolation: What’s in a name?

  Photo: uncontactedtribes.org.  In “Los Pueblos Indígenas en Aislamiento: Su lucha por la sobrevivencia y la libertad” (Indigenous Peoples in Isolation: Their struggle for survival and freedom) (2002), Beatriz Huertas Castillo
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  Amazon: Peoples in flight

  Image: Approximate location of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation and initial contact. Source: Pueblos Indígenas en aislamiento voluntario y contacto inicial, IWGIA – IPES – 2012.  Close to 90% of
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  An Ayoreo poem

  Photo: volunteerlatinamericablog.com. The spirit came in the form of a crow; it carried me up and said to me: “Look at Eami tonight. You can see many fires burning. They
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  Brazil: Isolated indigenous peoples continue to face threats

  Photo: Gleyson Miranda, 2010 – FUNAI files, source: Pueblos Indígenas en aislamiento voluntario y contacto inicial, IWGIA – IPES – 2012 The Amazon region, coveted and impacted by infrastructure megaprojects
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  Indigenous peoples in isolation in Peru

  Photo: Mashco Piro indigenous peoples in the Madre de Dios reserve – By Diego Cortijo – Sociedad Geográfica Española, 2011. Source: Pueblos Indígenas en aislamiento voluntario y contacto inicial, IWGIA
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  Ecuador: The Tagaeri Taromenane Intangible Zone in Yasuní Park

  In 1999, a presidential decree created the Tagaeri Taromenane “Intangible” or Untouchable Zone (ZITT) within Yasuní National Park. This meant that the area in question would be permanently off-limits for
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  Andaman Islands, India: Jarawa people turned into a “tourist attraction”

  Photo: Survival International Another major threat looming over some groups of isolated indigenous peoples is mass tourism. In some cases, private operators and local guides organize flights over areas where
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  The Sentinelese – the world’s most isolated tribe?

  Photo: Survival International Living on their own small island, only 72 km2, the Sentinelese are probably the most isolated tribe in the world. They are thought to be directly descended
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  Stories of resistance

  Photo: uncontactedtribes.org 1. A view from the recently contacted Jarawa The Jarawa, from India’s Andaman Islands have only had friendly contact with settlers living near their forest since 1998. Their
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RECOMMENDED

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  Pueblos Indígenas en Aislamiento Voluntario y Contacto Inicial

  Only available in Spanish.  Por  Dinah Shelton, Antenor Vaz, Beatriz Huertas Castillo, Carlos Camacho Nassar, Luis Jesús Bello, Paola Colleoni, José Proaño, Dany Mahecha R. (ed.), Carlos Eduardo Franky C.
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  Tribal peoples for tomorrow’s world

  ‘Tribal peoples for tomorrow’s world’ is written by Survival International’s Director Stephen Corry and published by Freeman Press. This ground-breaking new book draws on Corry’s unrivalled 40 years’ experience promoting
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  Progress can kill: how imposed development destroys the health of tribal peoples

  There are two versions of Survival’s ground-breaking report ‘Progress can kill: how imposed development destroys the health of tribal peoples’. You can download any of them here: http://www.survivalinternational.org/progresscankill
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  There you go – animation book

  by Oren Ginzburg, Survival International. In this satirical animation, development experts claim to bring ‘sustainable development’ to an imaginary tribe. Instead, they bring destruction. ‘There You Go!’ shows how ‘development’
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  Rocky Road. How legal failings and vested interests behind Peru’s Purús highway threaten the Amazon and its people

  By Global Witness, May 2013. This report examines a range of factors that Global Witness believes may be unduly influencing the decision-making  around the highway project, including alleged corruption and possible conflicts of
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