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Baka children suffer protein deficiencies because over-hunting in their forest has made it difficult for the tribe to find game. PHOTO/© Freddie Weyman/Survival International
To mark UN Children’s Day on November 20, a new photo gallery from Survival International highlights appallingly high levels of suicide and social breakdown amongst tribal children whose lands have been taken. The gallery also provides rare insights into their ways of life.
Tribal children stand to inherit their tribe’s unique language, ways of life and environmental knowledge. But they also suffer the consequences of the theft of their land and forced assimilation into the mainstream, often resulting in devastatingly high rates of addiction, suicide and chronic disease.
Survival reveals shocking new figures which show that type 2 diabetes has been found among Innu children of north-eastern Canada. The Innu used to live a nomadic hunting lifestyle but since they were pressured into settlements in the mid-20th Century, rates of suicide, obesity, addiction and diabetes have soared.
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