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In 2002 the Government of Botswana expelled all the Kalahari Bushmen from the lands they had lived off for at least twenty thousand years. Government ministers described the Bushmen as "stone age creatures" and likened their forced eviction to a cull of elephants. These events passed almost without comment in the world's media, at a time when the eviction of a number of white people from land in nearby Zimbabwe was headline news.
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Indigenous peoples have variously been identified as primitives, savages, or uncivilized. These terms were common during the heyday of European colonial expansion. By the 17th century, indigenous peoples were commonly labeled "uncivilized". Proponents of civilization, like Thomas Hobbes, considered them merely savages; critics of civilization, such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, considered them to be "noble savages". Those who were close to the Hobbesian view tended to believe themselves to have a duty to civilize and modernize indigenes. Although anthropologists, especially from Europe, used to apply these terms to all tribal cultures, it has fallen into disfavor as demeaning and, according to anthropologists, inaccurate.
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Where the Green Ants Dream (1984): directed and written by Werner Herzog and starring Bruce Spence. Plot summary: The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim.
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Precise estimates for the total population of the world's indigenous peoples are very difficult to compile, given the difficulties in identification and the variances and inadequacies of available census data. Recent source estimates range from 300 million to 350 million as of the start of the 21st century. This would equate to just under 6% of the total world population. This includes at least 5000 distinct peoples in over 72 countries.
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Traditional knowledge, indigenous knowledge, and local knowledge generally refer to the matured long-standing traditions and practices of certain regional, indigenous, or local communities. Traditional knowledge also encompasses the wisdom, knowledge, and teachings of these communities. In many cases, traditional knowledge has been orally passed for generations from person to person. Some forms of traditional knowledge are expressed through stories, legends, folklore, rituals, songs, and even laws. Other forms of traditional knowledge are often expressed through different means.
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Native Son by Bryan Adams
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American Indian Hopi Blue Corn Mush "Savory Way"
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The following animals were all named after indigenous peoples:
Ainu Lewis (beetle) There are also several other species named after these indigenous northern Japanese.
Aphyocharax yekwanae (fish) In honor of the Ye'Kwana Indians of the Caura River Basin, Venezuela, where the fish is found.
Azteca (ant)
Callithrix saterei Named for the Satere-Maues indians in Amazonian Brazil.
Hopiichnus (trackway of a lower Jurassic ornithomimid dinosaur) from Arizona; named for the Hopi indians.
Lexovisaurus (French stegosaur) named for the ancient Gallic Lexovix tribe.
Micronycteris matses (Matses' big-eared bat) for the Matses indians of Amazonian Brazil.
Navahoceros (Pleistocene mountain deer)
Prosaurolophus blackfeetensis (duck-billed dinosaur) found on a Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana.
Zuniceratops (ceratopsian dinosaur) Named for the Zuni Native American tribe.
Source: Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. (Miriam Makeba)
I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear -- flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be. (Miriam Makeba)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. (Mark Twain)
Native ability, without education is like a tree without fruit. (Samuel Johnson)
Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere because they think of everybody else as native. (Gertrude Stein)
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Native American proverbs:
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
Haste is the mother of inaccuracy
Involve me, and I'll understand.
Live and learn, die and forget it all.
Lovely women, lovely quarrels.
Nobody gets out of the bed to sleep on the floor.
Show me, and I may not remember.
Tell me and I'll forget.
The lazy ox drinks dirty water.
There is nothing so eloquent as the rattlesnake's tail.
What the people believe is true.
When the Indian wins, it is a massacre.
When the white man wins, it is a battle.
When the earth is hot, the worm stays in the ground.
When the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been polluted and the last fish has been caught -- only then do you realize that money can't buy everything:
Source: Creative Proverbs
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