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

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) — One tribe in South Dakota lifted its order banning Gov. Kristi Noem from its territories just days before the Republican was set to appear before a ...

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The third annual State of Tribes took place at Colorado’s State Capitol on Thursday. In their speeches, leaders from the Ute Mountain Ute and the Southern Ute urged lawmakers to respect tribal ...