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| Bushman elder, CKGR, Botswana 2004
© 2004 Stephen Corry/Survival |
Reaching out from the forests of South America to the Kalahari desert, members of the isolated Ayoreo tribe in Paraguay have added their voices to the Gana and Gwi Bushmen's
campaign for their rights. The Ayoreo Indians signed a petition in
support of the Bushmen's rights to return to their land, from which
they were evicted in 2002 by the Botswana government.
The plight of the Gana and Gwi struck a chord with the
Ayoreo-Totobiegosode, who were moved from their land twenty years ago
by fundamentalist American missionaries. They too are struggling to
return to their land.
The hunter-gatherer Ayoreo-Totobiegosode live in the Chaco, the
scrub-forest region of western Paraguay. Some groups of
Ayoreo-Totobiegosode choose to maintain total isolation from the
outside world, making them the last uncontacted Indians south of the
Amazon basin.
Representatives of many other tribal peoples worldwide have already
joined the Bushmen's campaign, including the Innu of Canada, the Ogiek
and the Maasai of Kenya, the Hadzabe of Tanzania, the Khoisan peoples
of South Africa and the Yanomami of Brazil.
Photos and footage available. For more information contact Miriam Ross on (+44) (0)20 7687 8734 or email mr@survival-international.org
