The Nilotic Family Of African Tribal Groups

The Hopi Native Americans tribe was originally from present day Arizona. The tribe lived in adobe houses. Adobe houses were made of clay,straw, and stone. Each adobe house had one family. The Tribe did not have horses until the Americans arrived. The Hopi Indians walked where for transportation.

The Mi’kmaq people live primarily in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The Mi’kmaq people have a tremendous amount of respect for their elders who give them wisdom about the world around them.

Maasai have a relatively complex culture and traditions. In fact, for many years they were

The most spoken languages are English, French, Arabic and Mi'kmaq. Mi'kmaqs also blend in with the city through Mi'kmaq Friendship Centre which helps them adapt to modern life. This preserves native traditions, stories and skills.

My Native American Tribe are called The Anasazi. The name of their culture group is Ancient Pueblo People or Ancestral Puebloans. The Anasazi lived in the Four Corners area of the Southwest United States, in what is now northern Arizona, southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico. They farmed beans, squash and corn, ate wild plants and hunted mice and rabbits. The Anasazi also hunted deer and bighorn sheep less frequently.

This tribe has one god. The Maasai view their god from two different perspectives. Engai Narok is seen through the thunder and the rains. While the other god, Engai Nonyokie, is for lightning.

During the transition from colonialism to independence of Tanzania in 1960’s, there was a small population of Indians living among the Africans who are often referred as the ‘guest race’ meaning they were uncertain of their standing in African land and felt like they didn’t belong to it. Among this minor population of Indians was a family consisting of

In this article you will be learning about the Nuer Tribe in Sudan, Africa. The Nuer tribe is one of the rivals of the Dinka Tribe. The three specific topics I will be talking about marriage, where they live, and their rituals.

Sir Charles Eliot At the time of the British arrival, in the early twentieth century, Maasai territory stretched 700 miles north and south from northern Kenya to central Tanzania, and 400 miles east and west. The entire area measured some 200,000 square miles of territory. Until the early 1880s, the Maasai were a formidable nation in eastern Africa. Sir Charles Elliot, Britain 's first governor in Kenya, wrote of the Maasai: "They asserted themselves against slave traders, took tribute from those who passed through their country, and treated other races, whether African or not, with great arrogance." Sir Charles Eliot recognized the

There has been a major decline in the Maasai’s people population and their wildlife population due to many things. The decline in the Maasai’s people population began around the late 1800s to the beginning of the 1900s. In the late 1800s the infectious viral disease of rinderpest began killing many herds of cattle, and by the 1900s the Maasai

Makandianfing is one of the many cotton farmers in Dougourakoni village, Mali in West Africa. She is a member of UC-CPC de Djidian cooperative, a company that has been partnered up with fairtrade ever since 2005.

The histories of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai are not well documented. Much of what we know is a mixture of legend, stories and secondhand accounts. North Africa has small coastal areas, some savanna areas, but it is mostly made up of the sahara desert. It is a very dry and hot region. West Africa has some desert areas, wet and dry grasslands, small rainforest, and long rivers, like the Niger River. It has some vegetation areas, but it also has some dry and hot areas. According to legend, Ghana started when a foreigner named Dhinga had to kill a goblin, and marry the goblins pretty daughters. Their offspring became ancestors of the ruling Soninke clans. After he died, his son Dyabe defeated his brother and founded the empire of Ghana somewhere

Indigenous culture seems quite variable and they think their culture is purified. After they decided to migrate from north to south and east of Kenya in 500 years ago. Until today they still remain their traditional culture from generation to generation They respect the land where provide a possible place to live in. They proud of the environment where offer some crucial items to them. In other word to say that the era always been changed. Although the culture of the Massai in Africa is influenced by the environment, the demand of globalization and knowledge are also influential in shaping their culture. Firstly, I am going to talk about the reason why the environment effect local people whom living

Deep in the Mukogodo forest located in west central Kenya is where you will find the last of the Mukogodo people. Throughout history there have been significant changes for the Mukogodo people as they try to transition their culture and ethnicity to be Maasai. Before the transition in the early 1920’s to Maasai, Mukogodos were foraging, bee keeping people with their language, Yaaku, and lived in rock caves. Now they are pastoralists who speak only Maa, and no longer live in caves. Sadly even after all the changes they have made, Mukogodos are still not accepted as Maasai and are viewed as the bottom rung of the regional hierarchy.

Yoruba culture was originally an oral tradition, and the majority of Yoruba people are native speakers of the Yoruba language. The number of speakers is roughly estimated at about 30 million in 2010.[25] Yoruba is classified within the Edekiri languages, which together with the isolate Igala, form the Yoruboid group of languages within the Volta-Niger branch of the Niger-Congo family. Igala and Yoruba have important historical and cultural relationships. The languages of the two ethnic groups bear such a close resemblance that researchers such as Forde (1951) and Westermann and Bryan (1952) regarded Igala as a dialect of Yoruba.