# @soozay_q on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm0cUiSJZ11
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/61738138-soozay-q-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-12-31T04:46:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Susan Theresa Davis (@soozay_q) — https://gondola.cc/soozay_q

## Caption

Aboriginal India

A vibrant take on tribes of India

Baiga, Madhya Pradesh

The name Baiga means “sorcerer-medicine man”. The Baiga are fierce protectors and worshippers of the forest and Mother Nature. 

The Baiga tribes practice shifting cultivation in the forest areas. They say they never ploughed the Earth, because it would be akin to scratching the breast of their Mother, and they could never ask their Mother to produce food from the same patch of earth time and time again – she would have become weakened. For this reason, Baigas used to live a semi-nomadic life, and practiced Bewar, or ‘dahiya’ cultivation. These techniques, (also known as ‘swidden’ agriculture), rather than being a cause of deforestation, have been shown to be effective conservation devices, employed for centuries by tribal peoples.

Since the 1960s, the Baiga have been the victims of forced evictions at the hands of the Indian authorities. These are often carried out in the name of conservation, in an attempt to protect the tiger populations, but have disastrous consequences for the displaced communities.

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