h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

BBC Report on "Nepal's mystery language on the verge of extinction" : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17537845

Read a Review on Western Desert Art. It got me wondering whether the word "Aboriginal" was an acceptable label compared to say "Indigenous Australian". In the review I was particularly taken by "Spirit Dreaming through Napperby Country 1980" by Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, which can be found from the following link:
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/tjukurrtjanu/artists/tim-leura-tjapaltjarri?&accept=11

The western desert art movement was started with the help of Geoffrey Bardon a school teacher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Bardon

He had a mental breakdown apparently due to "white australian authority", who white-washed over the Honey Ant Dreaming mural created by the displaced indigenous peoples of Papunya.

Mbuti or Bambuti are one of several indigenous pygmy groups in the Congo region of Africa. Their languages belong to the Central Sudanic (subgroup of the Nilo-Saharan phylum) and also to Bantu languages

In 2003, Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti Pygmies, told the UN Forum on Indigenous Issues that during the Congo Civil War, his people were hunted down and eaten as though they were game animals. Both sides of the war regarded them as "subhuman" and some say their flesh can confer magical powers. Makelo asked the UN Security Council to recognize cannibalism as a crime against humanity and an act of genocide.

Estimated numbers 30,000 to 50,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbuti_people

"When the soul does not leave the body it shakes.
Like a flower withering in the autumn.
Autumn has now come to my love"

Poetry of the Taliban, Ed. Linschoten & Hurst, 2012.