The new reports of survival international apparently indicate the death knell of survival of the original inhabitants in several parts of the world. The selfish and atrocious deeds of modern men bring the treat of their extinction from the face of earth. They, who lead a life accommodate to forest and the nature, face the tragic fate to be exploited and finally wiped out from their own original land.
In the central islands of Andaman, a tribal society, Jarawa, is reached at the end of ruin due to the impact of the highway, Great Andaman Trunk Road, in addition to widespread encroachment, poaching and commercial exploitation on their lands. Though they never like to get attached with the civilized men, their land was captured and started new settlements. Similarly, tribes, like Onge and Sentinelese, are facing the same threat. Another tribe Jangil of Rutland Island now almost vanished.
In 1900, there were more than 650 onges living in the Islands, but today their number is confined to less than 100 and Jarawas are counted less than 300. In 2000, Human right activists protested to stop the work and use of Trunk road. Though Supreme Court issued an order in their favor, nothing happened afterwards. The exploitation of land and road construction goes smoothly with the blessing of government and politicians. A lot of migrants even now move to the Islands and grant the indigenous people nothing but diseases which were never prevalent among them before.
In Canada, for over a century between 1870 and 1970, over 150,000 native Indian children were taken away from their families and put in church-run residential schools. These government-funded schools were ostensibly set up to educate them. But their hidden motive was to Christianize and assimilate them in the European population. Uprooted from their families and put in an alien environment, these children were subjected to all sorts of emotional, physical and sexual abuse. They were called dogs and subjected to physical torture if they spoke their native languages.
Subjected to inhuman treatment, many took to drugs and alcohol. Thousands never went back to their parents. Half of them were estimated to have succumbed to deadly diseases contracted in unhygienic school conditions. Though the Canadian government spends billions of dollars on them annually, they fair very badly on human development indices. Early-age deaths, suicides and alcoholism are common amongst them.
The government-funded Human Rights Commission says Australia's original inhabitants, whose cultures stretch back many thousands of years, Aborigines would be deeply affected by the impact of global warming. Blood-borne tropical illnesses such as malaria and dengue fever would increase, while food security for subsistence farmers and hunters and gatherers among indigenous populations would be threatened. They have much higher rates of infant mortality, health problems and suicide than other Australians, with many living in squalid camps where unemployment, alcoholism and lawlessness are rife. They are jailed five times more often than black males in South Africa under apartheid. They are twice as likely as their non-Indigenous peers to be a victim of violent aggression, with 24% of them reported as being a victim of violence in every year and also11 times more likely to be in prison.
