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	Veddahs - LoveToKnow 1911
		VEDDAHS, or Weddahs (from Sanskrit veddha, " hunter"), a primitive people of Ceylon, probably representing the Yakkos or "demons" of Sanskrit writers, the true aborigines of the island.
		The Veddahs exhibit the phenomenon of a race living the wildest of savage lives and yet speaking an Aryan dialect.
		The Veddahs are not to be confounded with the Rodiyas of the western uplands, who are a much finer race, tall, wellporportioned, with regular features, and speak a language said to be radically distinct from all the Aryan and Dravidian dialects current in Ceylon.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Veddahs (450 words)

	Let Veddahs be Veddahs
		In 1983 under the accelerated Mahaweli Development Scheme, several Veddah families including those of Kalu Appu and Sudu Bandiya were induced by Government authorities to abandon their traditional forest settlement in the Dambana region and to move onto goverment colonies.
		Surely, he says, the Veddah people have proven themselves to be the forest's best friends and protectors in stark contrast to officials who, he alleges, have systematically exploited the forests that they took away from the Veddahs.
		The stubborn refusal of the Veddahs to be colonized and assimulated into modern society has left officials puzzled and confused, while the Veddahs themselves are equally uncertain of what to expect from the Government after so many years of unfulfilled promises.
	vedda.org /let_veddas.htm (717 words)

	travelsrilanka - Veddahs - Sri Lanka
		The Veddahs are a pre-historic hunting people who have genetic affinities with the African Bushmen, the Australian Aborigines, and the tribes of the Andamanese Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
		Robert Knox, an Englishman held captive in the Kandyan Kingdom in the 17th century, admirably describes the lifestyle of the pristine Veddah: The land of Bintenne is covered with mighty woods, filled with an abundance of deer.
		Veddahs Village Image As a result of intermarriage and cultural assimilation, Veddah features are similar to those of many Sinhalese, and the Veddahs have mostly adopted the lifestyle of the dominant culture.
	www.travelsrilanka.com /index.cfm?PAGE=636 (532 words)

	Sri Lanka: Travel and Exports Information - Sri Lanka News
		The Veddahs, also called the Wanniyala-aetto or the People of the Forest, are the original inhabitants of the country.
		Only a small and diminishing number of people identifying themselves as Veddah have retained a semblance of their old culture, stressing a hunting lifestyle and maintaining close relationships with nature and their ancestors.
		Although Sinhalese legends characterise the Veddahs as partly descended from evil spirits, the Veddahs are related to South Indian tribes such as the Vedas of Kerala and even thought to be related to the aborigines of Australia.
	www.srilanka.com /aboutsl.php (2178 words)

	BBC News \| South Asia \| Sri Lankan aborigines demand forest home
		Supporters of Sri Lanka's aboriginal community, known as the Veddahs, have warned that they face extinction unless they are allowed to return to their homeland, which is now a national park.
		A spokesman for the Foundation for the Veddahs said about 1,000 of them wished to return to the jungle and that in the villages many were turning their backs on their language and culture due to tourism and alcohol.
		However, the Veddahs say it is their right to live in the park and they should all be allowed to return immediately.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/291816.stm (315 words)

	Genetic affinities of Sri Lankan populations Human Biology - Find Articles
		It is worthwhile to explore the history and ethnography of Sri Lankan populations, especially the Sinhalese, the Tamils, and the Veddahs, and their linkage with the contemporary populations of Sri Lanka for a better understanding of the populations' origins and parental affinities.
		The Veddahs are believed to be the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka (Seligman and Seligman 1911) and probably have their origins in the Nagas and the Yakkhas (Deraniyagala 1963), who occupied the island before the establishment of nonnative rule.
		The Veddah aboriginals of present-day Sri Lanka represent a mixture of Australoid, African, and Mediterranean affinities (De Silva 1981).
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3659/is_199512/ai_n8732666 (898 words)

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		While Richard Spittel's written documentation of the Veddahs may be familiar to some, very few are aware that he exposed much 16mm cine footage of the tribe during the 1940s and 1950s.
		The main thing was presents for the Veddahs such as cloth for the women, who until he finally made contact with them had no clothes to cover their nakedness - except animal skins.
		The Veddah stops, too, and peers in curiousity through the closed car window at the strange white woman dressed in her fashionable late-1960s frock.
	www.lankalibrary.com /cul/veddha/spittel.htm (4284 words)

	CNN.com - Nature - Tribal hunters turn wildlife protectors by hunting again - July 27, 2000
		Veddah lands were included in Maduru Oya National Park and declared off-limits to all hunters.
		He and eight other Veddah families, led by their stalwart elderly chief, Uruwarige Tisahamy, remained in their mud huts bordering the sanctuary, much to the annoyance of rangers, who rightly believed the Veddahs would continue to hunt.
		The Veddahs, who regularly witnessed the slaughter since they live and hunt in the same forest, were furious that outsiders were denuding the jungle of the animals that the tribe depends on for food.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/NATURE/07/27/tribal.hunters.enn (1220 words)

	VEDDAHS, or WEDDAHS (f... - Online Information article about VEDDAHS, or WEDDAHS (f...
		VEDDAHS, or WEDDAHS (from Sanskrit veddha, " hunter ")
		Veddahs, and the Gan Weddo, or semi-civilized See also:
		The Veddahs are not to be confounded with the Rodiyas of the western uplands, who are a much finer race, tall, wellporportioned, with See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VAN_VIR/VEDDAHS_or_WEDDAHS_from_Sanskri.html (711 words)

	Kataragama officials reach understanding with Veddahs
		By age-old tradition, members of the Veddah community are entitled to stop the Kataragama Esala perahera in a ritual ambush using bow and arrow.
		The Veddahs will also be provided with meals, coutesy of the Maha Devale, along with a small stipend to meet their casual needs.
		The traditional right of the Veddahs to remain under the tree in front of Valli Amma Devale was also reinforced.
	www.xlweb.com /heritage/skanda/veddah_devale.htm (353 words)

	The Veddahs of Ceylon
		Veddahs, or "Wild Men" of Ceylon, one of the lowest types of the human race.
		Scowen, of Kandy, and are two of the party of Veddahs brought up to Kandy for the Prince of Wales to see at the time of his visit to Ceylon, and I am not aware of any Veddahs having appeared until last month, in this or in any other civilised place, since that occasion.
		The Veddahs are supposed to be the original inhabitants of the island, and though quite inoffensive people are sunk lower in barbarism than perhaps any other race in the world.
	www.vedda.org /primitive.htm (462 words)

	Essays :: The Veddahs of Ceylon
		The Veddahs have, however, of late years shown some signs of becoming civilised under British influence, but comparatively few, to judge from the following note forwarded to us by Lieutenant A. Gordon, Royal Fusiliers, together with the photograph from which our illustration has been engraved:- "The two Veddahs were photographed by Mr.
		Scowen, of Kandy, and are two of the party of Veddahs brought up to Kandy for the Prince of Wales to see at the time of his visit to Ceylon, and I am not aware of any Veddahs having appeared until last month, in this or in any other civilised place, since that occasion.
		The Veddahs are supposed to be the original inhabitants of the island, and though quite inoffensive people are sunk lower in barbarism than perhaps any other race in the world.
	www.artsrilanka.org /essays/wildmen (411 words)

	Deferent era of medicine in Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Veddahs are a vanishing race, but when they were of comparatively pure stock, they attracted the attention of some of the leading anthropologists of the world, specially during the latter part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
		The Veddahs believed that diseases were sent by evil spirits, and it was 'necessary to make an offering to them in order that this may be removed.' Tennent, who visited the Veddahs in 1848, found that when sick they sent for devil dancers to drive away the evil spirit who was believed to inflict disease.
		It is thus seen that Veddahs who lived in the last century hardly had a knowledge of medicine, and that their approach to disease was to drive away the spirits that caused it.
	www.health.gov.lk /HeathHistory.htm (3140 words)

	Free spirit
		Learning their way of life and trying to understand their needs, Dr. Spittel and his daughter won the hearts of the Veddahs who were also struggling to comprehend the ways of these white strangers in their midst.
		When they saw their reflections for the first time in her mirror, they became extremely alarmed, saying that this was the yaka or monster that appeared in the water when they bathed.
		Driven from their camp by monsoon floods, they took shelter with the Veddahs further upland, running out of supplies and struggling to make do with what they had – at one point a single can of sardines had to suffice for more than 15 people, she remembers.
	www.sundaytimes.lk /070121/Plus/000_pls.html (1258 words)

	Daily Mirror Online : News
		Veddahs in Dambana have sought medical help to combat ailments such as diabetes and heart attacks, officials said.
		Veddah chief Uruvarige Wanniyalaatto has told several visiting doctors that Veddahs had got used to eating junk food resulting in ailments such as heart attacks, diabetes, malnutrition and hypertension affecting members of the Veddah community.
		It is reported that he had asked that a medical clinic be held at least once a month in Dambana where some 350 families live.
	www.dailymirror.lk /2003/02/25/News/4.html (1092 words)

	GLOBAL VISION : THE WANNIYALA-AETTO CASE STUDY BY WIVECA STEGEBORN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This paper includes the history of the forest-dwelling Wanniyala-Aetto (ìVeddahî) people in the face of their cultural devaluation and the struggle for their right to land and ethnicity based both on the virtue of having occupied the island from time immemorial, and the international agreements Sri Lanka has signed with UN instruments.
		A "Veddah" is a person who is scantily dressed and unclean, "backward" and who does not understand his/her own best interest.
		Along with the phrase "Veddah Country," which could be found on maps as late as 1953 (Spittel 1953: iix), the names as well as the places have vanished.
	www.global-vision.org /srilanka/stegeborn2.html (6867 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With the envisaged construction of the Senanayake Samudra however the Veddahs were translocated from "Vedirata" and settled in Dambana near Mahiyangana.
		Finding it difficult to adapt to an agrarian lifestyle and depressed at losing their identity, these translocated Veddahs have appealed to the government and even to the UN Working Group for Indigenous Populations (1996) to let them return to their traditional homelands.
		It seems so sad that these aborigines whose numbers are fast dwindling should not be given the opportunity to live out their terminal years in time-honoured manner before they finally vanish into limbo, leaving nothing behind but lore and legend and a few crude drawings on a cave wall near the Illukapitiya Raja Mahavihara.
	www.dailynews.lk /2002/11/05/fea09.html (974 words)

	The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon By Sir Samuel White Baker- Chapter 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The wandering Veddah, with his bow and arrows, is occasionally seen roaming through his wilderness in search of deer, but the report of a native's gun is never heard; the game is therefore comparatively undisturbed.
		Whoever first saw Veddah huts in the trees would have discovered, upon enquiry, that they were temporary watch-houses, from which they guard a little plot of korrakan from the attacks of elephants and other wild beasts.
		The Veddah burns the parched grass wherever he passes, and the country is soon a flened surface--not a blade of pasture remains; but the act of burning ensures a sweet supply shortly after the rains commence, to which the game and the Veddahs will then return.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/travel/rifle/chapter9.html (7438 words)

	KACPAW takes doggy care to Dambane Veddahs
		When the Veddahs made their request to have their beloved dogs spayed, no one was more pleased than Champa Fernando, Secretary of the Kandy Association for Community Protection Through Animal Welfare (better known simply as KACPAW.) KACPAW is campaigning to protect both man and animal from rabies.
		Fortunately, where many owners were reluctant before, the tide has begun to turn, as is evidenced by the request made by the Veddahs to KACPAW.
		The dogs were up in half an hour after surgery and drank a lot of milk, while most other animals would have taken several hours to recover enough to drink.
	www.sundaytimes.lk /070506/KandyTimes/kt21.html (412 words)

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