Veddas  or Wanniyalaetto of Sri Lanka
 

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  2. INTRODUCTION: WHO ARE THE VEDDAS?

  3. Indigenous Lanka: Consensus for Survival
  4. Who are Sri Lanka's Indigenous Wanniya-laeto?
  5. Wanniyal-aeto cave art
  6. Vulnerable position of the Wanniyalaeto
  7. Wanniya-laeto identity
  8. International Labour Organisation 1992 study
  9. Working with indigenous people of Lanka
  10. Mahaweli Development Scheme
  11. Chief Tissashamy's Resistance
  12. Wanniyal-aeto Human Rights
  13. Wanniyalaeto Sanctuary
  14. The Wannietto Trust
  15. EARLY ACCOUNTS

  16. Robert Knox's 1681 account of the Veddas
  17. The Veddahs of Ceylon in "The Graphic" of June 1884
  18. CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS

  19. "Sri Lanka's Indigenous Wanniya-laeto: A Case History" by Patrick Harrigan

  20. "Early Man and the Rise of Civilisation in Sri Lanka: The Archaeological Evidence" by S. U. Deraniyagala
  21. The Curse of Kuveni: The Vedda and the Anti-Thesis of Modernization
  22. "What we can learn from indigenous people" by Prof. G.L. Pieris
  23. "People of the Forest" by Charlie Round-Turner
  24. De Veddas van Sri Lanka
  25. "Colonial Histories and Vädda Primitivism" by Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere
    1. Colonial Histories and Vädda Primitivism: Introduction
    2. A Genealogy of Vädda Primitivism
    3. Vädda Heterogenity and Historic Complexity
    4. The Spread and Dispersal of Vädda Lineages
    5. Väddas and the Resistance (1817-18)
    6. Hunting versus Agriculture, Structure and History
    7. Colonial Histories and Vädda Primitivism: Conclusion

    THE CULTURAL SURVIVAL PLAN

  26. Cultural Survival: Working with indigenous people of Lanka
  27. The Cultural Survival Plan
  28. Features of the Cultural Survival Plan
  29. Advantages and Benefits
  30. Plan to Protect Bio-diversity and Indigenous Culture in Sri Lanka
  31. MAPS

  32. Traditional Vedda settlements in Sri Lanka
  33. Mahaweli Vedda resettlement areas
  34. Vedda hamlets in Maduru Oya National Park
  35. NEWS ARTICLES

  36. 2011: The Veddas of Sri Lanka
  37. Timber poachers threaten Dambana Wanniyalaeto
  38. Anthropology Group Takes Activist Stand to Protect Vedda Culture
  39. Row over where the Veddah roams
  40. Wanniyalaeto to suspend offering bee honey to Temple of Tooth
  41. Sri Lanka's indigenous community a target for conversion
  42. 'Vedda lullaby oldest known lullaby in the world'
  43. Let Veddahs be Veddahs
  44. 1996: UN Urges Recognition of Veddahs
  45. Veddhas Say No to Colonization Plan
  46. EAST COAST VEDDAS

  47. Complete text of The Veddas by C.G. and Brenda Z. Seligmann (1911)
  48. "East Coast Veddas" From The Veddas by C.G. and Brenda Z. Seligmann (1911)
  49. Sri Lanka's coastal Vedda indigenous communities
  50. Sinhala-Tamil Nationalism and Sri Lanka’s East Coast Veddas
  51. East Coast Veddas: Caught between two worlds
  52. 2011: On the Vanished Trails of Coastal Veddahs
  53. 2011: The Veddas of Sri Lanka
  54. DANIGALA VEDDAS

  55. "Guardians of the Red Earth: An American anthropologist among the Danigala Veddas" American anthropologist Jill Priest narrates her experiences among the vanishing tribe of Danigala Veddahs
  56. Plight of the Danigala Vedda clan
  57. DAMBANA VEDDAS

  58. Interview with Dambana Vedda Chief Tissahamy
  59. Address of Uru Warige Vanniya to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous People
  60. The Wanniya-Laetto (Veddahs) of Sri Lanka
  61. Courtesy the Indigenous Way: Survival of Age-Old Traditions
  62. VEDDA TRADITIONS OF KATARAGAMA

  63. Valli Marries the God of the Mountain
  64. Veddas celebrate Kataragama wedding festival
  65. Kataragama Devale officials reach understanding with Veddahs
  66. OTHER RESOURCES

  67. International Labour Organisation Convention No. 169
  68. Living Heritage Network
  69. Related Murugan Bhakti sites
  70. Contact us
  71. Site map