The remote tribes of the Andaman Islands, famous for shooting arrows at a patrolling helicopter following last years December 26 tsunami, are in danger of being wiped out completely by settlers invading their land.
Over one hundred federal police evicted the Guarani-Kaiowa Indians of Ñanderú Marangatú, Mato Grosso do Sul, from their land yesterday morning.
Bushmen Roy Sesana and Jumanda Gakelebone this week completed their tour of Europe with a visit to Berlin, where they met prominent German politicians and journalists, and gave a public lecture at a high-profile museum.
The government of Bangladesh sent police to break up a workshop held to discuss land rights issues in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
A former state governor and a former top policeman are among the accused in Brazils first ever investigation into the genocide of an uncontacted Indian tribe.
A federal tribunal has ordered the eviction of the Guarani-Kaiowa Indians of Ñanderú Marangatú within the next few days.
Kalahari Bushman Roy Sesana received the ?Alternative Nobel Prize? on 9 December, and told the world, ??My people love their land, and without it we are dying.?
Four Sanuma Indians in northern Brazil have committed suicide since last August. Suicide is virtually unheard of amongst the Sanuma, one of the four groups which make up the Yanomami tribe.