‘SACRED NATURE – MOTHER EARTH’
Indigenous people all around the world are fighting for survival. Their ways of
living are in trouble with the dominating rules. E.g. nomading people can no
longer walk their grazing routes as private landowning instead of collective land
rights becomes prevalent. And as the greed for resources continues we are
taking them from more and more pristine areas, which many times happens to
be home for remote people like in the Amazon.
Only very few indigenous groups can still live purely traditional, most of them
are finding themselves in a difficult mix of tradition meeting globalization, and
many places their cultures have been suppressed and destroyed for centuries.
Though there is also good stories to be heard about places where indigenous
languages and practices are being restored and receive a new wave of interest
and appreciation.
More information www.iwgia.org
I really do understand young people coming from rural traditional communities
who invest a lot of effort in education for the chance to try a modern life in big
cities. It is the natural attraction of the unknown, just like me an