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The Dongria Kondh are one of India’s most remote tribes. They live in Orissa state’s Niyamgiri hills and worship a mountain as a God.

As Vedanta Resources, a London-based mining company prepares to destroy their forests and sacred mountain to build a vast open-cast mine, Survival’s new film asks…

What will one tribe do to save everything they know?

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Message for Vedanta from ben:

this people have leaved to belive in themself and the world around them so change is really difficult and can harm them a lot if forcefully implemented. I suggest you people should handle them carefully with a lot of options given to them rather than force.

Message for Vedanta from Manjula:

For people like Mo-Courtsey National Geographic- "For more than 99 percent of the time since the genus Homo arose two million years ago, everyone lived as hunter-gatherers. Then, once plants and animals were domesticated, the discovery sparked a complete reorganization of the globe. Food production marched in lockstep with greater population densities, which allowed farm-based societies to displace or destroy hunter-gatherer groups. Villages were formed, then cities, then nations. And in a relatively brief period, the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was all but extinguished. Today only a handful of scattered peoples—some in the Amazon, a couple in the Arctic, a few in Papua New Guinea, and a tiny number of African groups—maintain a primarily hunter-gatherer existence. Agriculture’s sudden rise, however, came with a price. It introduced infectious-disease epidemics, social stratification, intermittent famines, and large-scale war. Jared Diamond, the UCLA professor and writer, has called the adoption of agriculture nothing less than "the worst mistake in human history"—a mistake, he suggests, from which we have never recovered.

The Hadza do not engage in warfare. They’ve never lived densely enough to be seriously threatened by an infectious outbreak. They have no known history of famine; rather, there is evidence of people from a farming group coming to live with them during a time of crop failure. The Hadza diet remains even today more stable and varied than that of most of the world’s citizens. They enjoy an extraordinary amount of leisure time. Anthropologists have estimated that they "work"—actively pursue food—four to six hours a day. And over all these thousands of years, they’ve left hardly more than a footprint on the land."
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/12/hadza/finkel-text/4

Message for Vedanta from Manjula:

The Ignorant are the ones who drink COKE (very good toilet cleaner). Food is obtained from earth., not factories. Processed food eaters are the ones who need the so called HEALTH CARE (for bodiy full of artificial food an chemicals). No matter how many AVATAARS people make, there will always be dumbos like MO.

Message for the Dongria Kondh from Steve:

Perhaps decades later, when they lose their soul when the mountain’s soul is gone, the Christians can enlighten them.

Why? Because it is their right to worship as they so choose.

But for now, I’ll pass on the message that that mountain should not be mined because the Dongria Kondh are integral to their environment.

And, their right to practice their religion should be respected.

Message for Vedanta from Jacqueline Cheval:

Thank you, Anti-Mo. Powerful Words.

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Latest news

  1. Vedanta mine slammed by Indian government team
    16 March
  2. Vedanta snubs British government again
    12 March
  3. Dongria Kondh tribe hold mountain festival and vow to stop Vedanta’s mine
    23 February
  4. Survival applauds Rowntree decision to sell Vedanta shares over ethical concerns
    18 February
  5. Amnesty slams Vedanta Resources
    11 February


Extras


Out-take reel


A call for help from Dongria Kondh man Jitu Jakesika


The Dongria Kondh dance