Added: Nov 19, 2008

From: RaminFrancisAssadi

Duration: 6:41

I was instantly captivated when I learned that there are still people today in our world who live the way humans did 20 to 30,000 years ago. They are the Amungme people of West Papua, Indonesia. The Amungme are an ancient and beautiful culture in one of the last isolated corners of our planet. What makes their story even more compelling, is that they had no contact with the rest of the world until the 1960s. It was then that an American mining company, Freeport McMoran, along with the Indonesian government, launched a massive copper and gold mining operation on traditional Amungme land. As a result, the Amungme people have faced and endured a wave of cultural, environmental and civil abuse, the like of which they had never known before. Today, over 40 years later, the Amungme are still struggling to gain some control over their disappearing land and culture. They are insisting on their rights as the original land owners, and if nothing else, they are hoping to be recognized and respected as equal human beings.

Channel: Travel

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