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Entries Tagged with "expedition"



The Last of the Reindeer Herders

Friday, February 1st, 2008

The Sami, Europe’s last indigenous people, have herded their reindeer across Lapland, for thousands of years. Here’s the link to the first of reports from Sweden, where the Sami have recently lost a number of legal battles over their right to herd reindeer on some of their traditional winter grazing lands. Read on
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Bushmen: The San Story

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

The San Story is an investigative report about the San Bushmen of the Kalahari, how they have been forced off their land by the Botswana but have fought back and recently won back the rights to the land. This is a rare positive story of successful indigenous political activism and ancestral knowledge that may secure […]

To Xanadu

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Expedition to research the Grass Silk Road - one of the greatest communication highways in history – a road, last travelled in the 13th Century, that led from Genghis Khan’s capital Karakorum in the steppes in Mongolia across the Gobi Desert to Xanadu, Kublai’s Khan’s pleasure dome in China. It became one of the worst […]