The Maasai tribe is located in East Africa and live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They cover around 160‚000 square kilometers of land along the Great Rift Valley. They have a population of roughly a half million people (The Maasai People). The tribe is considered as pastoralists because their existence is dependent upon the care of domesticated animals (Scupin 176). They are a nomadic group and travel between seasonal grazing areas and watering points. During the wet seasons‚ they travel
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The Navajo were one of the great Southwestern Native American tribes. Their history‚ culture‚ and art and tradition will be discussed. The people who were going to become the Navajo tribe settled in what would be the mountains of New Mexico in or around the 1600’s. Prior to that time the area was the home of the Anasazi (The Ancient Ones.) The Anasazi had lived there for approximately 1200 years but‚ for unexplained reasons‚ they abandoned their highly developed dwellings and moved westward and
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Katherine Hoffman EWP Bamana Tribe The Bamana people have many different types of art. As you can see they made masks and sculptures all for very many reasons. Sometimes they make it for ceremonies and sometimes they would create it for their religion. They are the Bamana and they make Bambara art. They are a part of the Mande tribes of West Africa which is why their art is similar to others. They commonly used metals for their art and work the metal to a finished product. The scale of their art
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a. _The Tlingit tribe lived in the southern bays of Alaska and Canada. They lived in communities instead of one big tribe. They each lived in one of the eighteen communities all of which are named after animals like the dogfish and wolf. The tribe is surrounded by tons of tall trees and dense forests. During the year it is cold and rainy. Their natural resources are mountains‚ rivers‚ greens‚ berries‚ and wood “Tlingit Tribe”. II. Culture a. The Tlingit’s would carve big pieces of wood and make
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The Yanomamo The Yanomamo tribe is one of the few tribes that are living virtually undisturbed. They inhabit 30‚000 square miles‚ along the borders of Venezuela and Brazil in the remote forest of the Orinoco River basin (The Yanomamo’s live in small villages that usually consist of their extended family‚ which can range from 50 to 400 people. They all live under the same roof‚ called a Shabono. A Shabono is a circular communal house that is made of natural materials gathered in the rainforest.
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Sara 5-3-12 Spanish 6th Hour The Araras: The Tribe Time Forgot The Araras were a tribe located in Brazil in South America. There is very little is known about this tribe. They live a very different life style. They are a tribe that had to work for everything they have‚ including things just to survive. The movie we watched in class on the Araras gave me a very good idea of how they live and what they believe and live for as a tribe. The Araras have little contact with FUNAI which stands
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The Ojibwe Native American Tribe used to live on and own the entire Northern third of Wisconsin. However‚ in an 1837 land cession treaty‚ the Ojibwe tribe had all of their land ceded to the state of Wisconsin. For centuries‚ Native Americans have depended on fish as one of their major food staples. As part of the treaty‚ the Ojibwe was granted the right to spearfish whenever and wherever they wanted‚ within the state. In recent decades‚ Anglers have berated Native tribes for their spearfishing rights
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The Cherokee Tribe started hundreds of years ago before the opening of the European connection in the southeastern part of what is now the United States. Cherokee society continued to develop new elements from European settlers. The Cherokee Tribe has many different social organizations‚ languages‚ economic systems‚ and customs and traditions. The social organizations shows how some are being used as the social classes today. Wilma Mankiller was one of the first women voted in as principal chief
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or as they are know by their own culture as Diyin Diné‚ which means the holy people‚ is the largest Native American tribe in the United States. A nation established more than 600+ years ago‚ in a time before Christopher Columbus landed in the “New World”; the Navajo Indians is one of the oldest tribes located in our country. Located 2‚313 miles to the south‚ another famous tribe existed. The Mayan Indians called the beautiful‚ tropical lowlands of present day Guatemala home. A culture that began
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The rite of passage is an important transition in a person’s life and the stages of their life/changing role. The rite of passage for the Vanuatu tribe is land diving. Land diving is a way of life for this tribe. Vanuatu’s land diving is an extreme bungee jump. For boys‚ land diving is a huge leap into manhood (Hagman). “According to legend‚ the land dive originated when a frightened wife‚ attempting to escape from husband‚ climbed a tall tree. He sighted and then pursued her‚ but just before
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