78-year-old Grandma Chagan spent her days dreaming of the homeland she was forced to abandon over 53 years ago due to the construction of the country's spaceflight base. Chagan said she remembers the day the helicopters landed near her yurt and her family were forced to pack everything they owned and leave the only land they knew to be home. Chagan lived in the Baori Ulan village, which housed over 200 families as well as 70,000 sheep as well as 1,400 herdsmen of the Tuerhute Tribe of Mongolia. With no where to go, they wandered the desert for eight years.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2011-09/30/c_131169206_3.htm

Many people in Mongolia are forced to move from their homelands to make way for "bigger and better" technology projects but what people fail to look at is the technology the Mongolian people have used for hundreds of years. Check out the Heritable Innovation Trust for a look into a rich innovative past.

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