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My mom (with a bit of my help) saved the Bushmen tribe of South Africa
The true indigenous people of SA, before Xhosa and Zulu people arrived and built farms and pushed them out.
After Mandela, 1994 etc. she went on a crusade to get them rights and land. Until 1970 it was legal to shoot them like a jackall. They literally had no land or money and were dying out. She got together with some lawyers and made a case for them, got them registered etc. etc. and eventually got them 200,000 hectares of land where they could live off the land, hunt, and basically keep their culture alive instead of having to move to the city to find work.
One time they were all at my house when I had a birthday party. My mates came to me wide eyed.. "dude I literally just smoked a blunt with a bushman!!"
Good times, good times. Mom's passed and I haven't checked in on them... but we did what we could.