Veddas  or Wanniyalaetto of Sri Lanka
 

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  1. Home Page
  2. INTRODUCTION: WHO ARE THE VEDDAS?

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

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

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

  21. "Early Man and the Rise of Civilisation in Sri Lanka: The Archaeological Evidence" by S. U. Deraniyagala
  22. The Curse of Kuveni: The Vedda and the Anti-Thesis of Modernization
  23. "What we can learn from indigenous people" by Prof. G.L. Pieris
  24. "People of the Forest" by Charlie Round-Turner
  25. The Ahikuntikaya or Gypsies of Sri Lanka
  26. De Veddas van Sri Lanka
  27. "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

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

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

  38. 2015: Into The Jungle With Sri Lanka's Last Hunter-Gatherers
  39. 2022: Chiefs discuss Sugar Processing Plant
  40. 2011: The Veddas of Sri Lanka
  41. Timber poachers threaten Dambana Wanniyalaeto
  42. Anthropology Group Takes Activist Stand to Protect Vedda Culture
  43. Row over where the Veddah roams
  44. Wanniyalaeto to suspend offering bee honey to Temple of Tooth
  45. Sri Lanka's indigenous community a target for conversion
  46. 'Vedda lullaby oldest known lullaby in the world'
  47. Let Veddahs be Veddahs
  48. 1996: UN Urges Recognition of Veddahs
  49. Veddhas Say No to Colonization Plan
  50. EAST COAST VEDDAS

  51. "East Coast Veddas" From The Veddas by C.G. and Brenda Z. Seligmann (1911)
  52. Sri Lanka's coastal Vedda indigenous communities
  53. Sinhala-Tamil Nationalism and Sri Lanka’s East Coast Veddas
  54. East Coast Veddas: Caught between two worlds
  55. 2011: On the Vanished Trails of Coastal Veddahs
  56. 2015: Into The Jungle With Sri Lanka's Last Hunter-Gatherers
  57. 2022: Chiefs discuss Sugar Processing Plant
  58. 2011: The Veddas of Sri Lanka
  59. DANIGALA VEDDAS

  60. "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
  61. Plight of the Danigala Vedda clan
  62. DAMBANA VEDDAS

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

  68. Valli Marries the God of the Mountain
  69. Veddas celebrate Kataragama wedding festival
  70. Kataragama Devale officials reach understanding with Veddahs
  71. OTHER RESOURCES

  72. International Labour Organisation Convention No. 169
  73. Living Heritage Network
  74. Related Murugan Bhakti sites
  75. Contact us
  76. Site map