The plea challenges the legal sanction to divert the forest area of the indigenous community towards the massive ...

“Most Shompen reject contact with outsiders and are highly vulnerable to diseases for which they have little or no immunity. The neighbouring Great Andamanese tribes lost over 99 per cent of their ...

Subsistence farming, tea estate work, and other nonfarm daily-wage-based work are the major livelihood options available to the Adivasi/Tea Tribe, Bodo, and Nepali communities, that comprise the ...

“Members of the reclusive Shompen tribe also participated in the poll process, marking it a historic milestone. The Election Commission’s SVEEP campaigns played a pivotal role, raising awareness among ...

The project also poses an “existential risk” to the island’s two indigenous tribes, the Nicobarese and the Shompen, says Sophie Grig of Survival International. The NGO has co-ordinated a ...

Tribes have traditionally refused to pay taxes but preferred trading with communities, and occasionally offering military services to kings. The epics are full of stories where sages and kings marry ...

PIERRE — South Dakota's nine tribes are projecting a message of "unity" going into the 2025 state legislative session. Part of the change necessary to bridge state and tribal relations will come ...

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Activists said the island’s vulnerable tribes such as the Nicobarese and the Shompen face risks from exposure to external cultures and diseases. Pankaj Sekhsaria, curator of The Great Nicobar ...

Jarawas are one of five tribes inhabiting the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and are ranked as “particularly vulnerable” by the Anthropological Survey of India. The others are the North Sentinelese, ...