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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 Raju :

Hello,
Mine lord Vedanta & others, I strongly oppose mining in biologically and cultural sensitive areas, No tribe should be affected, should not do mining activity in tribal and historically important places. I strongly oppose the one who pollute the ethnic culture of the tribes. even i strongly oppose the modern missionaries who convert tribe and their culture. I wish, tribe people’s culture, religion, life-style,economic system and totally their Kingdom should protected and beauty of the culture maintained.
but today, tribal are most disturbed people in the earth, the mine lords and politicians as well as modern missionaries are disturbing their life and culture.recent days tribes are targeted by Maoist OR islamic terrorist in the name of betterment of the tribe/ tribal society. non of them are protecting their culture,but destroying them.
In all part of the world, be it Latin American or Afro-Asian, whole tribes are destroyed by so called modern thinker, modern religions,modern industrialist.
their cultural beauty is sidelined, their faith,god,craft,clothing,food style and festivals everything is changed forcefully by above said modern-people.
slowly tribes are disappearing, tribes are divided by Modern ppl, they loose their ethnicity, identity, in the name of betterment of their life, said peoples are making them to wear pant and shirt, they start migrating towards City, these migration made them to suffer for one meal a day!, this make them homeless,jobless even identity also lost. no document they have it,as to prove that they are the citizen of the state.! they have to live forcefully in the Urban slum.

finally they become- "Urban Poor" dwelling in the sub-urban OR railway Slum"

Message for the Dongria Kondh from J. Leysath:

Your people may number few, but your concerns are as valid as those of the largest communities on the planet. It is a mark of the rightness of your cause that you have won your recent battle. I hope that Vedanta and other corporations like it will in future be more respectful of you and other tribes which may be threatened.

Message for Vedanta from J. Leysath:

History tends to look unkindly on examples of industrial powers infringing on the livelihood of indigenous peoples. Is short-term economic gain worth the enmity of future generations?

Message for Vedanta from Derek Grant:

There is bauxite ALL OVER THE WORLD. Why do you choose to destroy a pristine mountain with a small, unique, irreplaceable culture? It’s obviously not because there’s a shortage of bauxite. Welcome to the hate list of me and all my friends on Facebook. :-|

Message for the Dongria Kondh from Derek Grant:

People everywhere who care for people instead of only money… We are with you. Peace and strength.

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Latest news

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  2. Vedanta’s India mine slammed in devastating government report
    16 August
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  4. Anti-Vedanta tribal leaders abducted
    10 August
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Extras


Out-take reel


A call for help from Dongria Kondh man Jitu Jakesika


The Dongria Kondh dance