Bleak treatment: Botswana’s first people not only experience negative stereotyping, humiliation and discrimination, but their customary land rights are not acknowledged or protected. “Indigenous people in Botswana told me that their top priority is constitutional recognition and related legal reform,” Barume said. Perhaps the deepest grievances expressed to Barume concerned land rights. The San remain the only people in Botswana whose customary land rights have not been acknowledged, respected or protected. “Here on this land belonging to the church we own nothing,” one San member was quoted as saying.