Indigenous peoples constitute around 5 per cent of the world's population

Indigenous people live in every region of the world, but about 70% of them live in Asia.

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Cusco, Peru

The Lower Omo Valley, south west Ethiopia, is home to eight different tribes,

who altogether number around 200,000 and include the Surma. The Ethiopian

government is forcibly evicting many of these communities from their land to

make way for sugar, cotton and biofuels plantations. An enormous hydro-electric

dam, Gibe III, is under construction on the Omo River. When completed it will

destroy a fragile environment and the livelihoods of the tribes, which are closely

linked to the river and its annual flood.

Photograph: Christian Declerq/Survival International

Chihuahua, Mexico

A Tarahumara Indian is dressed as a Matachines dancer from the "Dance of the Moors and the Christians" during the San Guadalupe pilgrimage at a church in Nararachi village.

Photograph: David Ducoin/Survival International

Baguio City, Philippines

Igorot women, in the Cordillera Central, where storytelling is central to the culture. It is an opportunity to share history and maintain their unique way of life. Despite laws that are supposed to protect their rights, mining seriously threatens the survival of many tribes across the Philippines.

Photograph: Arman E. Barbuco/Survival International

Arunachal Pradesh, India

An elderly Adi man walks tentatively across an ageing bamboo bridge. Adi, meaning ‘hill man’, are divided into Bogum and Onai.

Photograph: Andrew Newey/Survival International

Kham, Tibet

In early autumn, on a remote, high-altitude Tibetan plateau near Serxu, a Tibetan woman cuts hay to stock up for the long winter.

Photograph: Nicolas Marino/Survival International

Omo valley, Ethiopia

Surma boys in the lower Omo valley in south-west Ethiopia, which is home to eight different tribes, numbering about 200,000 including the Surma. A huge hydroelectric dam on the Omo river is being built. It threatens to destroy a fragile environment and the livelihoods of tribes that rely on the river and its annual flood.

The Lower Omo Valley, south west Ethiopia, is home to eight different tribes,

who altogether number around 200,000 and include the Surma. The Ethiopian

government is forcibly evicting many of these communities from their land to

make way for sugar, cotton and biofuels plantations. An enormous hydro-electric

dam, Gibe III, is under construction on the Omo River. When completed it will

destroy a fragile environment and the livelihoods of the tribes, which are closely

linked to the river and its annual flood.

Photograph: Una foto una sonrisa/Survival International

West Bengal, India

A Santhal man fishing on the Shilabati river. In India tribal peoples are openly portrayed as backward and primitive by the

media, industry representatives and government officials, simply because their

communal ways are different. This prejudice underlies much of the mistreatment

tribal peoples face, as industrialized societies subject them to genocidal violence,

slavery and racism so they can steal their lands, resources and labor.

Photograph: Partha Pratim/Survival International

Siberut Island, Indonesia

The Mentawai hunt monkeys with bows and poison arrows in the forest.

Photograph: Fabien Astre /Survival International

Kucheipadar, India

Kondh, Kucheipadar, Odisha, India.

The Kondhs are the largest tribal group in Odisha and are known for their

cultural heritage and values, which centre upon respect for nature. Near to the

village of Kucheipadar, Utkal Aluminium International Limited mines the 200

million tonnes of bauxite on Baplimali, a hill regarded as sacred by tribal peoples.

The Niyamgiri hill range in Odisha state is home to the Dongria Kondh tribe. For

decades, the 8,000-plus Dongria Kondh have lived under the threat of mining by

Vedanta Resources, which hopes to extract the estimated $2 billion-worth of

bauxite that lies under the surface of their sacred hills. Despite the tribe

overwhelmingly rejecting the plans for the mine in 2013, Vedanta Resources is

now seeking to expand its alumina refinery at the foothills of the Niyamgiri

range.

Photograph: Johann Rousselot /Survival International

Para, Brazil

The winning photograph - an Asurini do Tocantins man in the Tocantins river, Amazon.

Asurini do Tocantins, lower Tocantins River, Pará, Brazil.

In Brazil, there are about 240 tribes, totalling around 900,000 people – 0.4% of

the country’s population. http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/brazilian

In the 514 years since Europeans arrived in Brazil, the tribal peoples there have

experienced genocide on a huge scale, and the theft of most of their land. Today,

as Brazil forges ahead with aggressive plans to develop and industrialize the

Amazon, even the remotest territories are now under threat.

Photograph: Giordano Cipriani /Survival International

Omo valley, Ethiopia

Hamar men taking part in a cattle-leaping ceremony.

Photograph: Salvatore Valente/Survival International

Labrador, Canada

In Canada, in 1967, the Mushuau Innu of Labrador were one of the last

indigenous peoples to be forced to settle by the government. Many families still

stay in the countryside – Nutshimit – for several months, hunting caribou,

fishing, and picking berries whilst living in their tents.

Photograph: Sarah Sandring/Survival International