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	Wade Davis - The Penan: Community In The Rainforest
		For the Penan all of these plants are sacred, possessed by souls and born of the same earth that gave birth to the people.
		In Penan society proper social behavior is learned by example rather than by rigorous discipline, and the importance of sharing is instilled in children from the earliest age.
		As a Penan elder explains, "The land is sacred; it belongs to the countless numbers who are dead, the few who are living, and the multitudes of those yet to be born.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC29/Davis.htm (2352 words)

	Sarawak Peoples Campaign - Penan 1
		The Penan are one of the few remaining nomadic peoples of the rain forest.
		Traditional Penan society is nomadic and survives by hunting and gathering.
		The physical and spiritual well-being of all Penan, whether nomadic or settled, depends on the survival of the forest.
	www.rimba.com /spc/spcpenanmain1.html (1157 words)

	Karine Roche's Case Study
		The Penan value sharing because of the uncertainty of their way of life and they are recognized for their generosity.
		The Penan depend on the forest for their survival, hence, there is a valid argument that logging activities must be suspended or practiced with care (or use alternate sustainable methods).
		The Penan are struggling to defend their territory against logging companies that are plundering the rainforests they fully depend on.
	www.american.edu /TED/penan.htm (5721 words)

	APFT Pilot report - English - B - LIFE STYLE
		Rivers and streams provide a grid for the Penan's spatial organization and are the basis for their knowledge of the environment.
		In fact, many Penan think that manioc and banana cultivation around a fixed camp, combined with hunting and gathering, is an easier life than only living off the produce of hunting and gathering.
		The Penan are adopting a mixed economy, flexible and reliable, a system combining in different ways rice, sago and manioc, safer than relying on rice alone.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /Sonja/RF/Ukpr/Report115.htm (3352 words)

	foei: link magazine
		The numbers of the Penan are fast dwindling, and only about 10,000 of these peaceful people remain in the Sarawak interior.
		Penan leaders at the meeting said that the various financial commitments made to Penan communities by companies and the government have mostly been ignored.
		Several testimonies by Penan leaders also mentioned the devastation of ancestral burying grounds, and the refusal of logging companies to deliver the promised compensation for these losses.
	www.foei.org /publications/link/95/e95penan.html (871 words)

	Sahabat Alam Malaysia - Press Releases - Penans Appeal To Sarawak Government To Respect Native Claims
		According to a number of the Penan village Chiefs involved in the blockade, their people resorted to road blockade after numerous verbal and written appeals made to the companies on problems faced by the Penans arising from the logging activities were ignored.
		The Penan Chiefs view the act of the companies in refusing to take heed of the Penans appeals and pleas as a sign of total lack of respect for their rights.
		According to the Penans chiefs, the blockade shall be manned and maintained until the higher authorities and government leaders come up with acceptable solutions and a written guarantee that the Penan rights to their traditional land and resources are respected by the timber concessionaires and contractors.
	www.surforever.com /sam/pressrelease/penanprotestlog.html (686 words)

	The nomads of Gunung Mulu - Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo Natural History - Find Articles
		Catching a glimpse of the Penan elders, with their feathered headdresses, distended pierced earlobes, tattoos, loincloths, and blow guns, one imagines them to be members of a mysterious lost tribe clinging to an ancient way of life.
		Harrisson proposed that the Penan are principally descendants of overwhelmed villagers who reverted to nomadism during the nineteenth century, when the Kayan and Iban tribes carried out their great headhunting expeditions.
		There was a a root used as an anti-inebriant and for curing hangovers, a slender root that serves as an antidote for scorpion and snake bites, a fleshy stem that is chewed as a cure for headache and upset stomach, and an aromatic leaf applied to sore joints.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_n3_v107/ai_20485367 (999 words)

	All Things Pass Journalism :: MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS :: Indigenous Penan Protest Against Certified Destruction of ...
		19 Penan leaders and 582 sedentary and semi-nomadic Penan from the remote area of Ulu Baram on Borneo are protesting by letter against the certification granted to Samling, the Malaysian timber corporation, for the alleged sustainable logging of one of Sarawakís last contiguous areas of primeval forest.
		The Penan in these communities are also complaining about the substantial damage to their drinking water supplies as a result of the logging.
		For years, the Penan of the Ulu Baram area have been resorting to non-violent blockades of the logging roads to defend themselves against the destruction of their lebensraum.
	www.allthingspass.com /journalism.php?jid=122 (700 words)

	American Feed Magazine
		In the Penan cosmology, Bruno Manser was lakei Penan – “Penan man” – one of the tribe.
		Penan girls are routinely raped; one Penan leader was bayoneted in the stomach, left to die in the forest.
		People have been “disappeared.” Penan forced onto government settlements suffer hunger, disease; the anger and shame of deception and theft; the apathy and hopelessness of a people cast to the wind, uprooted from everything they know, alienated from their very selves.
	www.americanfeedmagazine.com /snow4212002.htm (2962 words)

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		The Headland / Bailey Hypothesis and the Penan Foragers
		Penan always harvest sago by cutting only one or two of the trunks, leaving the palm to resprout; they never cut down the entire plant at the root clump, which would kill it _"(Langub, 1988: 207).
		The Penan have a social system which may be considered to reflect their exploitation of sago, to some degree.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~anthro/courses/361/barkin.html (4965 words)

	Ecology and Society: Learning from traditional knowledge of non-timber forest products: Penan Benalui and the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Penan Benalui, a subgroup of Western Penan of Sarawak, migrated from the Silat River area to the Upper Lurah at the request of the Kenyah Badeng in the late 1890s.
		Penan collecting groups were usually small, numbering one to five people, and composed of closely related men, boys, and only rarely women.
		For the Penan and Kenyah, the forest is perceived as a public domain filled with a variety of beings and thus a place in which one must observe the social norms characteristic of life in any public space.
	sunsite.wits.ac.za /eco/vol9/iss3/art3/main.html (12469 words)

	BREAKING NEWS / Penan set up new logging road blockade in the Middle Baram (Sarawak) - Affected company is operating ...
		The Penan of Ba’ Abang had repeatedly asked Interhill to respect the community's forest reserve and to stop logging in its water catchment area.
		The company manager was quoted by the Penan with the words: "We don't bother what you say because our company has a valid logging licence issued by the government." Most parts of the area have been logged in the 1990s already and are currently being relogged by Interhill.
		The forest-dwelling Penan people have struggled in defense of their remaining primary forests and their native customary rights for more than twenty years.
	brimas.www1.50megs.com /BMF_20Jun06.htm (386 words)

	Penan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Penan are noted for their practice of 'molong' which basically means never taking more than necessary.Most Penan were nomadic hunter-gatherers until the post-World War II missionaries settled many of the Penan, mainly in the Ulu-Baram district but also in the Limbang district.
		After seeing the devastating effect of the logging industry he championed the Penans cause, organising road blocks, writing letters from the Penan to Sarawak's government and to the Western government, urging them to stop importing Malaysian timber.
		The Penan language is linguistically interesting since it has six words for varying levels of "we" depending on how extensive the described group in the society is at the same time as having no word to describe the status of a domestic animal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penan (800 words)

	Long Iman, Sarawak
		The Penan were once all nomadic, traveling from one area of sago trees to the next as they harvested the pulp to make a special type of flour, then leaving the area to let the trees recover.
		The Penan are recognized by the other indigenous people of Borneo as the true masters of the jungle, but they nevertheless also tend to view them as primitive and inferior.
		The British colonial government told the Penan this was their land, but never gave them the title on paper, thus (inadvertently?) later facilitating the alienation of Penan land by the Sarawak government.
	www.integrity.com /homes/chrismorton/MDM/indon_47.htm (3151 words)

	Penan Communities ask for support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Penans state that logging on their native customary lands and the lack of respect to their native customary rights are the main problems faced by them.
		Besides logging, the lack of healthcare is another major concern where the health of the Penans has deteriorated as a result of air and river pollution, exposure to heat as well as lack of nutritious food due to the depletion of forests because of logging activities.
		We have been informed that the Sarawak Penans are one of the poorest communities in Sarawak and need as much assistance as possible to ensure that their existence is not threatened by logging and plantation companies and the non access to basic needs.
	www.foe.org.au /ci/ci_05penan.htm (1608 words)

	Survival International \| news
		The Penan are nomadic hunter-gatherers of the Borneo rainforest.
		Hundreds of Penan hunter-gatherers have signed a letter of protest about a logging permit awarded to a notorious timber company.
		The area being logged by Samling is one of the last remaining primary rainforest areas in the province of Sarawak and is therefore essential for the survival of the Penan as a people, who have already witnessed the destruction of much of their forest.
	www.survival-international.org /news.php?id=227 (234 words)

	Sarawak Peoples Campaign - Penan 2
		Within the territory of the Penan alone, 72% of the forest is officially designated for commercial exploitation.
		Evidence on the ground suggests that much of the lowland forest essential to the Penan has already been cut, and what remains is slated to be logged.
		On March 31, 1987, armed with blowpipes, a group of Penan erected a blockade across a logging road in the Tutoh River basin.
	www.rimba.com /spc/spcpenanmain2.html (2169 words)

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		The Penan knew the purpose of the truck, but it had no place in their scheme of things.
		They had a little conversation in which the Penan explained, politely, that the driver was cutting down their home forests, would he be so kind as to please stop, and tell his colleagues to stop as well.
		The Penan gave the acne-faced young driver a gourd of water and some smoked squirrel meat to ease his twenty-mile trudge back to the timber company base camp.
	www.sochaczewski.com /chapter1.html (1540 words)

	Survival International \| tribes
		Sharing is taken for granted in Penan society: there is no Penan word for 'thank you', and a hunter must not eat a single bite more than he gives to others, however small his prey.
		The Penan have been told by the government that they have no rights to land at all until they 'settle down' or start farming.
		We are also calling for an end to the harassment of the Penan and other tribes, and the recognition of their land ownership rights.
	www.survival.es /tribes.php?tribe_id=42 (548 words)

	Visit the Penan
		The first night we meet people and watch Penan dancing, marveling at the gorgeously decorated festive clothing which they make in the jungle and carry with them in their nomadic life.
		The Penan do not even bother to pick them off from between their toes which is as far as the leeches go if they walk unshod and unclothed.
		The Penan are truly lords of their beautiful Green World and the other indigenous peoples of Borneo defer to them.
	members.tripod.com /kapitadventure/tour_3.htm (1165 words)

	News Archives - Penan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It implies that the Penan and their activist friends in Malaysia are incapable of staging blockades on their own, but that there must be some kind of secret white power behind them.
		Penans from the Upper Baram region in the Miri Division reached the blockade site at Long Benali and Ba Pengaran to stop the logging operations by the Shin Yang Timber Company.
		This article largely focuses on the Penan meeting described in 30 Penan chiefs gather in Marudi but also discusses the problems of the Penan generally.
	www.earthisland.org /borneo/news_penan.html (991 words)

	The Disappearance of Bruno Manser By keith harmon snow
		In the Penan cosmology, Bruno Manser was laki Penan—"Penan man"—one of the tribe.
		I look at the destruction and I know the wonder—what a big wonder the primary forest—with all the hardship, with all the joy, and this wonder and joy is taken away from a peaceful people who just look for their daily food.
		To his detractors—ever ready to shoot the messenger who thrust the Penan story onto the world stage—Bruno was a "white tarzan," a "hitch-hiker hero," a "medical school drop-out." Bruno shrugged off the personal attacks, seeing fear behind them as he struck at the heart of injustice.
	www.thevoicenews.com /News/2002/1129/Front_Page/C02.html (1963 words)

	Nomadic Penan of Sarawak in trouble - Indonesia / Philippines / Australia Community struggles - Anarkismo
		The state legal system has no regard for the Penan, denying them the right to a home and slandering their balanced culture which has sustained itself and the surrounding environment for countless generations.
		The government is constantly attempting to ‘develop’ and ‘modernise’ the nomadic Penan, believing a settled life of agriculture to be far more civilised, and the hunter-gatherers to be ’backwards’.
		Most of the NCL do not have ‘official’ records or documents to certify that the Penan are the occupiers and therefore the rightful owners of the land.
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=1012 (1022 words)

	PECWS Penan Indian and
		Stripped of their self esteem and their joy of living and their centuries old natural surroundings, most Penans are now being resettled in government settlements and forced to adapt to a new way of life.
		He immediately was accepted and treated as one of their own and formed a bond over the 6 years he lived with the Penans from 1984 to 1990.
		The Penans are fighting a losing battle, because one of the main problems, according to some environmentalists, is that the government and loggers are one and the same.
	www.poconoweb.com /bulletin-board/pecws/penans.html (1349 words)

	Peaceblog
		The situation is critical [~]the people are troubled by frequent food shortages, river and air pollution and income loss which in turn produce poverty and ill-health and reduce the people's access to basic housing and sanitation facilities, agricultural assistance, primary education and healthcare services.
		TIRED by the unceasing operations of timber companies which show little regard for their customary land rights, at least seven Penan communities once again jointly resorted to erecting blockades across the roads used by the logging trucks between the month of May and June in Sarawak.
		The many problems faced by the Penan communities caused by the encroachment of logging operations into their traditional forest have been exhaustively documented.
	radio.weblogs.com /0121717/2003/08/11.html (425 words)

	Malaysia: The true responsible for the 'Penan problem' in Sarawak
		That of the Penans indigenous people in Sarawak is a paradigmatic example of a long and unsolved conflict involving territorial rights.
		To the official viewpoint there is a 'Penan problem' originated by the resistance the Penans have opposed to the destruction of their lands and rainforests, setting up blockades to prevent the transit of logging machinery and trucks.
		This concept is at odds with large-scale logging operations and for years the Penan have been opposing them through different means, of which the most widespread has been that of blockading roads leading to the forest.
	www.wrm.org.uy /bulletin/41/Malaysia.html (706 words)

	Penan - Wikipedia
		Traditionelle Lebensgrundlage der Penan ist neben Jagen, Fischen und dem Sammeln von über 300 verschiedenen Wildfrüchten, Wurzeln und Pflanzen die Herstellung von Sagomehl aus der Sagopalme.
		Der Gesundheitszustand der Penan verschlechterte sich daher durch Unterernährung, Ausbreitung von Malaria und dem Verschwinden traditioneller Heilpflanzen.
		Auch bei den sesshaft gewordenen Penan ist der Bezug zum Regenwald noch stark.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penan (826 words)

	Penan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Because of the destruction of so many trees, the Penan people were forced to move into villages of 800 people or more.
		The Penan protested the removal of trees by blocking a logging road.
		The Penan tribe once numbered 10,000 people, now there are only a few thousand.
	www.yutan.esu2.org /elem/rainforest/humanrep.htm (986 words)

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