The real pain of the indigenous tribal people !

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is celebrated on August 9 every year worldwide. The day is aimed at promoting and protecting the rights of the world’s indigenous population and to acknowledge the contributions that indigenous people make towards world issues such as environmental protection, simultaneously. We are seeing how Christianity has captured these communities.They are converting religion by using money power as a weapon. This is a noteworthy point. Tomorrow, these tribal people will lose their true identity. The role of Adivasi Kalyan Ashram in this direction is highly commendable. Their efforts are being made to identify the tribals of their existence. Recently, the Assam cabinet created a new department to protect the culture and practices of people belonging to tribal and other indigenous communities. Most ethnic communities in Assam are believers of animism, though some, over the years, have turned to the dominant religion in their respective areas. Indigenous tribes such as the Bodos, Rabhas, Mishings, along with others, have their own religious beliefs and unique traditions, which so far have not received the support necessary for their preservation. This department will be an independent department, which will solely focus on faith and culture preservation of ethnic communities and not concern itself with other matters related to them.