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Kwegu tribespeople in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley report in 2015 that they are starving as a result of being forced from their land and of the irrigated plantations that are drying up the river on which they depend. These interviews were filmed in 2012, during the clearing of their land for a government sugar plantation.

Powerful video testimonies of Bayaka “Pygmies” in the Republic of Congo highlight their intimate connection with their lands and the abuses they face at the hands of wildlife officers and forest guards – who are often funded by large conservation organizations like the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Wildlife Conservation Society. © Jin Lewis/Survival International

The lives of thousands of Baiga tribespeople in India were destroyed after being forcibly and illegally evicted from Kanha Tiger Reserve – home of the “Jungle Book”. Their communities have been scattered and left without land, but tourists are welcomed into the reserve.

Tribal Voice is a project by Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights.

Governments and multinationals are trying to silence tribal peoples. They brutalize and murder them, and they steal their lands. They call them backward and primitive – but they’re not.

Tribal peoples are just like us. They, too, are concerned about their quality of life and their children’s futures. Their understanding of the world is as astute as anyone’s and they have perceptive things to say about almost every aspect of life today.

That’s why we’re giving tribes communications technology so they can speak to the world in real time.

It’s time to listen.

Guarani Leader Eliseu Lopes describes his tribe's quest to return to their ancestral land.

In southeast Cameroon, Baka and their neighbors are being illegally forced from their ancestral homelands in the name of "conservation."

They are accused of "poaching" because they hunt their food.

They face arrest and beatings, torture and death at the hand of anti-poaching squads supported by WWF.

Many Baka (such as the woman speaking in this video) in fact refer to anti-poaching squads as “dobi-dobi” (WWF), since they do not distinguish between WWF and Cameroon's Ministry of Forests and Fauna.

A talk by Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa

Amazonian shaman and leader Davi Kopenawa Yanomami on his tribe's life and land, shamanism and his new book.

Moving first-hand accounts by the residents of Jholar village in Kanha tiger reserve, who have now been evicted (filmed in 2012)

Raoni talks about threats to uncontacted tribes in Brazil and the impacts of the controversial Belo Monte dam

Kayapó leader Megaron Txukaramae talks about the draft bills that threaten to weaken indigenous people’s control over their land