Indian tribe defends "hill god" from foreign miner

Tribal women walk to a mountain stream to collect water in the forest village of Phuldomer near the mining site of Vedanta Alumina refinery, about 362 km (224 miles) west from the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, March 16, 2007. Their thick, ancient forests shelter leopards, elephants and even the odd tiger, their slopes a home to an isolated tribe, but the ''curse'' of eastern India's Niyamgiri hills lies beneath the soil. Massive deposits of bauxite have brought Britain's Vedanta Resources to this remote corner of the state of Orissa, where they have already built a $900 million alumina refinery. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal