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Can Land Rights and Education Save an Ancient Indian Tribe?

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Inter Press Service News Agency

Publication Date
2014-08-19

MALKANGIRI, India, Aug 19 2014 (IPS) - Scattered across 31 remote hilltop villages on a mountain range that towers 1,500 to 4,000 feet above sea level, in the Malkangiri district of India’s eastern Odisha state, the Upper Bonda people are considered one of this country’s most ancient tribes, having barely altered their lifestyle in over a thousand years.

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http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08/can-land-rights-and-education-save-an-ancient-indian-tribe/