A Dying Indigenous Village of Lo

This book tells the story of the dying Indigenous village of Lo in the Upper Mustang in Nepal. The Sam Dzong village in Lo, one of the ancestral villages of the Loba Indigenous People, faces water scarcity, forcing its people to abandon their homeland. People of this centuries-old village are left with no other option but to resettle in a new location named Namashung.

People face dilemmas in this new place. Their collections of their childhood, traits and teaching of their ancestors, and treasure of their homeland keeps following them; but, the memories of their properties left behind in their ancestral homeland become priceless for those who have moved to Namashung. Even though this new place is relatively safer in terms of natural disasters, relocated people feel that many things are missing in their lives. They try to fulfil the emptiness they feel in the absence of their ancestral belongings. However, they are neither able to repair the loss and damage of their homeland, nor fill the emptiness they experience. They are left with the irreparable loss of a way of life treasured by the Loba Indigenous People of Sam Dzong. This is the sad reality of the climate crisis in Sam Dzong and is just one of many cases of climate change-induced loss and damage the Indigenous Peoples of Nepal face.