Governments, corporations and assorted others regularly exploit the idea that tribal peoples are "primitive" in order to remove them from their land or open it up to outsiders, thereby freeing up access to the natural resources on or under their land. Often this is done in the name of "development", justified on the grounds that the so-called "primitive" tribes are backward and out-of-date and need to "catch up" with the rest of us. But what are the consequences? For the tribes, they are almost always catastrophic: cultural and spiritual alienation, poverty, alcoholism, disease and death.


Don't call these people primitive, The Independent 27 February 2009

Independent Stephen Corry: Don't call these people primitive

Stephen Corry Quotes

Governments, corporations and assorted others regularly exploit the idea that tribal peoples are primitive in order to remove them from their land or ...

Governments, corporations and assorted others regularly exploit the idea that tribal peoples are primitive in order to remove them from their land or ...

Governments, corporations and assorted others regularly exploit the idea that tribal peoples are primitive in order to remove them from their land or ...

Governments, corporations and assorted others regularly exploit the idea that tribal peoples are primitive in order to remove them from their land or ...