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	Dinka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dinka women were prized as slaves for many years, with some being sold to Arabia until as late as the 1960s (and later, by some accounts).
		The Dinka's pastoral lifestyle is reflected in their religious beliefs and practices, which are animist in character.
		The Dinka's religious beliefs and lifestyle have led to conflict with the Islamic government in Khartoum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dinka_tribe (473 words)

	Dinka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Their women are famously beautiful and were as slaves for many years, with Dinka women being sold to Arabia until as late as the 1960s (and later, by some accounts).
		Among well-known Dinka are supermodel Alek Wek; former NBA player Manute Bol, one of the two tallest players in the league's history; and current NBA player Luol Deng.
		The Dinka's religious beliefs and lifestyle have led to conflict with the Islamic fundamentalist government in Khartoum.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Dinka.htm (495 words)

	Sudan - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Religious leader Muhammad ibn Abdalla, the self-proclaimed Mahdi (Messiah), attempted to unify the tribes of western and central Sudan in the 1880s.
		He led a nationalist revolt culminating in the fall of Khartoum in 1885, in which the British General Gordon was killed.
		The Azande, Bor, and Jo Luo are “Sudanic” tribes in the west, and the Acholi and Lotuhu live in the extreme south, extending into Uganda.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /sudan.htm (1834 words)

	washingtonpost.com: African Lives
		Today some Dinka retain their cattle, but many have lost their herds, which were killed in fighting or abandoned during the rush to camps for the displaced.
		The Dinka of Mangalatore camp for the displaced have lost all their cattle, a measure of their wealth, to the war.
		Dinka fighters long made up the core of southern separatist guerrillas and have paid with heavy loss of life; the more numerous noncombatants among the Dinka have seen long-dear traditions and values slip away.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/africanlives/sudan/sudan.htm (1992 words)

	Profile of the Dinka People of Sudan
		The Dinka are one of three groups that gradually developed from the original settlers.
		Identity: The Dinka are one of the branches of the River Lake Nilotes.
		The cattle are central to the Dinka culture and worldview.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/profiles/dinka.html (1762 words)

	Bryan Whitlock Project Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Dinka live in an equatorial environment of vast marshlands in between the numerous tributaries fed by the White Nile half the year, and sparse woodland/savannah vegetation the other half, though time spent in each zone depends on the magnitude of the rains (or lack thereof).
		With the Dinka belief that immortality is gained through procreation, the rate of population increase for the Dinka is one of the highest in the world.
		The Dinka are a very proud and self-sustaining people, as I have said, but the current state of war ravaging their homelands has reduced many to complete dependence on foreign aid.
	www.bpchurch.org /BW/dinkas.html (4346 words)

	Nuer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The nature of relations among these various southern tribes were greatly affected in the nineteenth century by the intrusion of Ottomans, Arabs, and eventually the British.
		The Dinka treated the resisting Nuer as hostile, and hostility developed between the two groups as a result of their differing relationships to the British.
		The tribe speak the Nuer language, which belongs to the Nilo-Saharan language phylum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuer_tribe (500 words)

	The Dinka of the Southern Sudan
		Traditionally cattle herders living on the vast savanna of the southern Sudan in Africa, the Dinka were split into twenty or more tribal groups which were further divided into sub-tribes, each occupying a tract of land large enough to provide adequate water and pasture for their herds.
		Their homeland is very important to the Dinka: their whole existence focuses on their rivers and pasture, in the spirits they believe inhabit the grassland, and in their cattle.
		The Dinka need to know their ancestry because clan members living in the same region are forbidden to marry.
	hsc.csu.edu.au /pta/scansw/dinka.htm (1490 words)

	developments - feature 01/2001 - Dinka women take control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The south, its population a mix of several tribes, is fighting for independence from the predominantly Muslim north.
		In south Sudan, approximately 40% of the population are Dinka.
		Many Dinka men have died as a result of the civil war, and women are often finding themselves widowed at an early age.
	www.developments.org.uk /data/13/f_dinka.htm (1087 words)

	Gurtong Discussion Board -> Self-determination, Already In Vicious Betrayal
		At the moment, the SPLM/A is dominated by Dinka and Nuer and they had created so many districts and counties in their areas, than in the Nuba mountains, Southern Blue Nile and Equatorial region without sensitivity in their mind.
		Dinka people may be represented in large number in the parliament, however; that is not a domination of other communities.
		The entire Dinka was not represented equally in the leadership positions during the war.
	www.gurtong.com /forums/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=1609&s=79c973671f7a4e5419a7cbc53684c19b (3199 words)

	Nuer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Since the Nuer were so successful at fending off European powers, they spent much of their time interacting with a bordering African group called the Dinka.
		Often relations between the two groups were tense; the Nuer would often conduct very successful cattle raids against the Dinka.
		Typical food eaten by the Nuer tribe (or at least some, who lived in Ethiopia while growing up) include beef, sourdough corn ball pasta, Anjara bread (large, sour dough pancake) and mangos.
	mywiseowl.com /articles/Nuer_tribe (432 words)

	Sudan: Peace Negotiations and the Situation in the South (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The withdrawal of the Nuer and Shilluk tribes from the movement in 1991, due to a lack of internal democracy, increased the hegemony of the Dinka.
		This secession inside the SPLM triggered harsh battles between the Dinka and Nuer from 1991 to 1994, during which around 100,000 were killed and thousands of Dinka were displaced, leading to clashes with other southern tribes.
		While the Dinka is the biggest tribe in the south, others also have power and enjoy privileges that even surpass those of the Dinka.
	www.siyassa.org.eg /esiyassa/ahram/2003/4/1/FEAT2.HTM (516 words)

	ethnicity`
		The tribes had never practiced inter-marriage, due to a lack of social interaction, language barriers, and aggressiveness toward each other, which makes them not to come in contact.
		They also say "all men are warriors, but a son of Dinka can kill a lion with stick" or all can grow to adulthood but only Dinka know what it's means to bean adult.
		These divisions among tribes in the south lead to Nyanga failure and eventually a peace agreement was signed with the government in 1972 as a means to manage the conflict between the southerners and the Arabs.
	www.louisville.edu /~akanyi01/ethnicity.html (994 words)

	Observer \| Sudan's stolen children
		The southern Dinka tribe can name more than 14,000 children abducted by Arabs in the past decade; many will have passed through this dusty, cattle-town.
		Eleven years ago, she and her younger brother were snatched from the Dinka by Arabs patrolling the front-line.
		And recent agreement between Arab and Dinka elders to return the stolen children, means they just may. Acting together, in spite of the government's war effort, the elders have returned 670 children over the past two years.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4366773-102275,00.html (729 words)

	Slavery and Slave Redemption in the Sudan (Human Rights Watch Backgroudner, March, 2002)
		In this contemporary form of slavery government-backed and armed militia of the Baggara tribes raid to capture children and women who are then held in conditions of slavery in western Sudan and elsewhere.
		Since some time in the mid-1980s, a Dinka Committee, appointed by Dinka elders living in Khartoum, functioned intermittently to retrieve women and children held in slavery in Darfur, in the area of the Rizeigat tribe of the Baggara.
		That effort, headed by James Agware, a Dinka familiar with Darfur, was somewhat successful in that several hundred slaves were identified and released by their “owners.” James Agware and his associates visited the area and, through existing Dinka and other networks, identified abducted children of Dinka origin who were forced to work for Baggara families.
	www.hrw.org /backgrounder/africa/sudanupdate-print.htm (2637 words)

	Dinka of Sudan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Of all the tribes undergoing persecution, none have been more devastated than the Dinka tribe of Southern Sudan.
		These were the very people whose kids were abducted, sold into slavery, women raped, houses burned, crops and cattle destroyed, etc. To see these persecuted believers overflow with worship was one the highlights of the entire trip, even if the dancing/celebration disrupted the recording of that last song a little bit.
		Typical of the Dinka strong faith through times of trial is a contemporary Dinka hymn by Mary Alueel Garang, "Let us praise the Lord.
	heart-sounds.org /dinka.htm (1808 words)

	VOA News - Southern Sudan's Push to Modernize Threatens Traditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is usually boys like Machuei who lead their family herds in the dry season from the relative safety of towns and villages to the grassy marshes between the two major forks of the White Nile.
		For 21 years, the tradition of cattle camp was threatened by the civil war between Sudan's government in the mostly Islamic north and rebel militias in the largely Christian and animist south.
		The promise of high-paying jobs is luring thousands of people from cattle camps and village farms to larger towns such as Rumbek, where businesses are starting to flourish, kindled by the certainty that southern Sudan, under the peace deal, stands to pocket about half the country's oil wealth, about $1.5 billion a year.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-08-16-voa35.cfm (963 words)

	Acitivists decry slave redemption in Africa’s Sudan
		Families and chiefs of the southern Sudanese Dinka tribe have long attempted to redeem abducted women and children from slavery.
		Most of the victims of slave trade have been women and children from the Dinka tribe who were taken captive by militia groups from the predominantly Muslim North.
		Since 1995, Dinka leaders engaged in redeeming slaves have increasingly received assistance from foreign Christian groups, allowing the redemption of hundreds of people at one time.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/040299/040299h.htm (892 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Nilo-Saharan & Khoisan
		Dinka, Nuer, and Masai are among the Nilotic languages.
		updated 7-27-2004 Dinka (Nilo-Saharan) belongs to the Western Nilotic sub-branch of the Nilotic sub-branch of the Eastern Sudanic sub-branch of the Chari-Nile branch of the Nilo- Saharan family of languages.
		The Nilotic sub-branch is divided into Western Nilotic, Eastern Nilotic, and Southern Nilotic sub- branches, with Dinka and Nuer among the languages belonging to the Western Nilotic sub- branch, and Masai among those belonging to the Eastern Nilotic sub-branch.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/nskxlh.htm (676 words)

	Profile of the Nuer People of Sudan
		The Nuer, a tall and very dark people, are related to the Dinka, who live to their west, and their culture is very similar.
		The Nuer call themselves Naath, meaning "human beings." The Nuer, Dinka and Atwot (Atuot) are sometimes considered one ethnic group.
		British colonial policy was focused on establishing fixed boundaries between the Dinka and the Nuer.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/profiles/nuer.html (1718 words)

	9844—Growing up Dinka—11/3/98
		The average among the Dinka would be forty to fifty cows per wife, but in the leading families they married or had their daughters married for sometimes as much as over a hundred cows per wife.
		After all, the man who was marrying the way he was marrying, from all tribes of the country, which was part of his strategy was political influence through marriage.
		Coming from a family background in a tribe where tensions were inevitable because of, as we said, polygamy and all that, the unity of the community was a very important principle.
	www.commongroundradio.org /shows/98/9844.html (3785 words)

	BBC News \| Despatches \| Dinka tribe the losers in Sudan famine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They are well used to life in a harsh environment, but as the BBC East Africa correspondent Cathy Jenkins reports from the town of Ajiep, the combination of war and drought have brought about the collapse of their traditional survival mechanisms.
		The people of the Dinka tribe are by necessity survivors.
		This underlies how serious the situation is. For the Dinkas, cows are kept for trading and bartering and for settling all-important marriage contracts.
	newswm.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/despatches/86404.stm (366 words)

	Dinka - Ethnos - Books about the Dinka People
		They number around 1-2 million people, constituting about 12% of the population of the entire country, making them the largest Ethnic tribe in Sudan.
		Tradition and Modernization: A Challenge for Law Among the Dinka of the Sudan
		The customary law of the Dinka people of Sudan: In comparison with aspects of Western and Islamic laws (African traditional law)
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Dinka.htm (514 words)

	Search for "Dinka Tribe" provided by Poetry Connection
		The Elders of the Tribe were grouped And squatted in the Council Cave; They seemed to be extremely pooped, And some were grim, but all were grave: The subject of their big To-do Was axe-man Chow, the son of Choo.
		When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes, And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind Like aged warriors westward, tragic, thinned Of half their tribe, and over the flattened rushes, Stripped of its secret, open, stark and...
		The prophetic tribe of the ardent eyes Yesterday they took the road, holding their babies On their backs, delivering to fierce appetites The always ready treasure of pendulous breasts.
	www.poetryconnection.net /search/Dinka_Tribe (1396 words)

	sudan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She joined his family in the Yirol district west of the White Nile, home of the Dinka tribe, known for their towering height and their love of the cattle they herd.
		Once, Deng could recite his Dinka name out to 13, 14, 15 generations, but as the years passed he forgot his most distant ancestors.
		If his life had followed the traditional Dinka pattern, he would be married now, living in a village where he would see his mother and siblings everyday.
	www.burlingtonfreepress.com /specialnews/sudan/family.htm (1794 words)

	Letters for October 6, 2003
		tribe of the Sudan; we are predominantly extremely dark skinned (and proud of it!) Nilotic people and the Dinka men regularly dye their hair blonde.">
		I am part of the Dinka tribe of the Sudan; we are predominantly extremely dark-skinned (and proud of it!) Nilotic people (the same tribe as the supermodel Alek Wek); and the Dinka men regularly dye their hair blonde with a dye made from cow urine.
		This blonde hair dying has nothing to do with European standards of beauty, but is an ancient practice dating back to when the Dinka where a part of the Nubian and Ancient Egyptian world.
	archive.blackvoices.com /letters/20031006.asp (658 words)

	HRW Background Paper on Slavery and Slavery Redemption in the Sudan [March 1999]
		This practice is conducted almost entirely by government-backed and armed militia of the Baggara tribe in western Sudan, and it is directed mostly at the civilian Dinka population of the southern region of Bahr El Ghazal.
		This notion of beneficial side effects to the practice of war booty or slavery is a self-serving sop to the conscience of those who engage in abductions or reap the benefits of this practice, particularly where the incorporating family is childless and treats the children kindly -- a rare event in any case.
		These efforts are in addition to efforts that the Dinka have been taking for many years, including networking to identify Dinka children not living with their families in non-Dinka areas, and a variety of other methods designed to free the identified children and women without attracting the attention of the obstructionist local authorities.
	www.hrw.org /backgrounder/africa/sudan1.htm (1519 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Freedom purchased for slaves in Sudan
		"The slaves, mainly Christian and animist women and children from the Dinka tribe, were brought out of captivity in northern Sudan and returned to their homeland in the south by eight networks of Arab retrievers," said CSI in a statement.
		The government-backed slave trades in Sudan prompted local Dinka tribe members to organize a buy-back program with the slaves' captors, a neighboring Muslim tribe, several years ago.
		When the practice started in the mid-1980s, it seemed that the primary motivation of the raiders (in addition to weakening the Dinka population) was to acquire cattle, with slavery as a secondary consideration.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17309 (729 words)

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