Stories of a Settled Tribe - The People of Long Lamai
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"IF someone says to you: 'the forest is nothing', I will come and say: 'come and live with me, with nothing. No money. Come and live with me in the forest for a few months - you will survive. And I will go with you to the cities with nothing - no money - how do you survive'" - Nelson Kelesau -
FOR SIX weeks in mid-2010 Louise Sopher lived in a village named Long Lamai with a tribe in Borneo known as the Penan, a once fully-nomadic, now mostly settled community. Whilst volunteering to teach English in the village I also got to work on my own project to collect stories from the villagers and to publish it in a book and sell it for the benefit of the community. HERE then is that book, containing thirty stories from twenty-one people; stories to entertain all ages with tales from Penan music, myth and legend to more serious ones about struggles in poverty, education and the need for the jungle to survive. Louise Sopher on Twitter - on Wordpress
