The Real Avatar: Mine - Story of a Sacred Mountain

What will one tribe have to do to save everything they know?

UPDATE: Victory! The Dongria Kondh have stopped Vedanta from mining their sacred mountain. http://bit.ly/azK6eR

http://www.survivalinternational.org/mine

Mine, narrated by Joanna Lumley, tells the story of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe's struggle to protect Niyamgiri, the mountain they worship as a God. London-based mining company Vedanta Resources plans a vast open-pit bauxite mine in India's Niyamgiri hills, and the Dongria Kondh know that means the destruction of their forests, their way of life, and their mountain God.

Music by Skin and Robot Club.

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[TheBalu29]

I must clarify that this is not a british owned company but promoted by an Indian.Also all this documentary is funded by mining giants of western countries who do not want India to come up and compete with them.Moreover this documentary tries to show that these tribes should be conserved like animals and vedanta wants that these few people also lead life equal to all civilized people like us and have evereything for them.Also Vedanta feeds directly millions of people.

[survivalintl]

@TheBalu29 - wrong on all counts. Vedanta Resources is listed on the London Stock Exchange. No money from any mining company was used to make this documentary. And nothing in this film suggests that tribes should be 'conserved like animals' - rather, that they should be allowed to decide their own future and not have it imposed on them by outsiders like Vedanta. Why do you suggest that the Dongria Kondh are not 'civilized' people?

[geekamails]

@TheBalu29 No one is against development. But with development comes responsibility. What vedanta has done to the poor villagers? Cant it do something for them? Dumb fucks like you think people will get job after such factories. But what about the real tribals who suffer and get nothing in return.???

[tubeview888]

@TheBalu29 oh so respecting the earth, growing your own food having naturally good health because you dont poison yourself with chemicals and processed food and drugs is uncivilized? you must read/write, be materialistic needing far more than your share to be happy, be a slave to a government disconnected from the earth to be considered civilized huh? I thought so... No one needs Vedanta or any other company/gov to feed them THE EARTH ALREADY DOES THAT NATURALLY...

[navinjaju]

Why these foreign NGOs are not letting India grow? Why they want us to live like tribals forever while themselve enjoying all luxury of life ? Probably afraid of India's growth. Anyway, whatever they do, they can't stop our growth story. Jain Hind.

[standabovethecrowd]

It's wonderful to hear that they stopped the company from mining in their sacred mountain. What courageous people. Good for them!

[yoganb7]

liked it. We need change

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[Sandra58699]

London Based company LOL.

England has destroyed so many poor countries :(

[vidaripollen]

very nice video.but the story not yet over,if im right.

[flirtwd]

That is how we were meant to live. At one with nature. That people probably don't get diabetes and heart disease. They have a balance of diet and faith. God bless those people.

[bonbondesel]

A sad story... Seeing children taking small weapons to save their hountry... Their god is the mountain... Sadly, ours has become money... But in europe & USA, now we see that the market tells our governments what to to do. And despite the fact that nobody voted for a bank or the market, we have to pay the price, for them to make profit. How to get rich? Not complecated: Earth has ressources for everybody. They take it & we pay our due to have the right to live. We more poor, they richer..Crual.

[Cheguebuddha]

... Continuation ...

Once the nature of the mind is understood, the way is out of the evergrowing cities and back into nature living from the land in small self-sufficient communities independent from the world economy. The companies try to make us believe that food comes from supermarkets but that is a lie. The food comes from the soil. Everything springs from this earth and everything goes right back into it again. The great wheel of life, of living and dying.

May we find the courage and w