I think it is only like a couple of decades since indigenous peoples have started to get back on their feet again after the devastating effects of colonization, dislocations, ‘witch hunts’, forced assimilations, demoralizations, racial discriminations, the loss of language and culture etc. etc. etc.
‘We’ have had our own ‘cultural revival’ in efforts to try to keep languages and our old cultures from going extinct.
http://www.suri.ee/etnofutu/ef!eng.html
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With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moscow and the Russian Federation escaped direct responsibility for some of the world's worst environmental devastation because many of the Soviet disaster sites were now in other countries.
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Dealing with the environmental disasters Soviets left behind, countries like Yakutia (Sakha people) had a Shamanic renewal, as did the Buryats, Mongols & Tungus (representing ‘classic’ Siberian Shamanism). From there a ripple effect - since Shamanism is our ancestral spirituality, whether we talk about the Uralic, Altaic or Paleo-Siberian peoples. The World view, connection to the land, kinship with plants and animals etc.
Turkish have pushed the Ural-Altaic unity with
“Turanism” and the
“Great Turanian Spirit” to re-establish the ancient connections and to instill pride in the old beliefs and identities plus they have sought the
“Native American- Turanian Brotherhood: FIRST NATIONS First” – collaboration.
In Oz I have experienced the language and cultural rebirth from a brink of extinction.
Maori view on indigenous development:
http://mediacentre.maramatanga.ac.nz...us-development
Native American vision is perhaps a very complex issue ……. ???
https://nnigovernance.arizona.edu/da...-disenrollment
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