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	Herero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The majority of the Herero live in Namibia, with the remainder living in Botswana and Angola.
		During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Herero migrated to what is today Namibia from the east and established themselves as herdsmen.
		A group of Hereros living in Germany who were inducted into the German military during the Second World War appear in a major part in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, and the genocide under von Trotha plays a major role in his novel V.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herero (529 words)

	Herero and Namaqua Genocide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Herero and Namaka Genocide occurred in German South-West Africa (modern day Namibia) in 1904-1907, during the scramble for Africa, and is considered one of the worst atrocities in the history of the German colonial empire.
		Characteristic of this genocide was death by starvation and the poisoning of wells for the Herero and Namaqua population that was trapped in the Namib Desert.
		German colonial rule in the area was far from egalitarian, the natives including the Herero were used as slave labourers, their lands were frequently seized and given to colonists, and resources, particularly diamond mines, were exploited by the Germans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herero_Wars (1266 words)

	Herero - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the beginning of the 19th century, the Nama from South Africa, who already possessed some firearms, entered the land, only to be followed in turn by white merchants and mostly German missionaries.
		Primarily in Damaraland, German settlers acquired land from the Herero in order to establish farms; in 1883, the merchant Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz entered into a contract with native elders which later was to become the basis of German colonial rule.
		Soon after, conflicts between German colonists and Herero herdsmen began; controversies frequently arose because of disputes about access to land and water, but also the legal discrimination of the native population by the white immigrants.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Herero (461 words)

	Herero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Herero is actually a term like "Nguni" - a group of tribes.
		The various tribes forming the Herero group and speaking a common language are the Himba (also known as the Ovahimba), Herero, Tijimba and Mbanderu.
		Currently there are about 107,000 Herero living in Namibia, southern Angola and Botswana.
	www.flw.com /languages/herero.htm (50 words)

	NamibWeb.com - The online guide to Namibia: Herero holocaust?
		The Herero had concentrated at waterholes near the Waterberg plateau, but, after their defeat in battle, were driven into the barren Omaheke to the east.
		It is commonly held that thousands of Herero and their livestock perished in the desert and that General von Trotha ordered his troops to prevent their return and ensure the total destruction of the Herero nation.
		In short, the claim is that the Herero moved eastwards to Waterberg, because of drought and as part of a preconceived plan to move to Botswana - reiterating that the German military were not at fault in the gruesome Omaheke exodus.
	www.namibweb.com /hererohol.htm (1458 words)

	Herero Tribe of Namibia and Botswana
		This, combined with increasing theft of land and cattle by the Germans led to a short-lived alliance between the remaining Herero and the Nama in 1892.
		In the Herero culture, cattle remain the most precious possession and the tribal hierarchy divides responsibilities for inheritance between matrilineal and patrilineal lines of descent.
		The striking Herero Women's dress is derived from Victorian Era German missionaries who encouraged the local women of the time to dress according to the fashion in Europe in those times.
	www.gateway-africa.com /tribe/herero.html (1051 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Unfinished business for Namibia's Herero
		Namibia's Herero community is seeking reparations from Germany for the suffering experienced during colonial rule.
		However, the Herero Genocide Committee is seeking millions of dollars in compensation from the German government, based on the atrocities committed.
		The Herero identity in Namibia today, is alive, not least because of the unique sense of style adopted by the Herero women.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/4623516.stm (632 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Damaraland
		The Herero, or Ovaherero, are a tribe of the Bantu, and immigrated, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from the north-east into Damaraland.
		The Herero are boastful, vain, avaricious, beggarly, given to lying and cheating, dishonest, and cruel and ferocious in their hatred; on the other hand, they are also hospitable, possess a high sense of honour, and great love for their parents.
		As Maherero, the supreme chief of the Herero, had formerly sided with the English against the Germans, he was forced, on 21 October, 1885, to conclude a treaty of protection and amity with Germany, and to acknowledge the German supremacy.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04610b.htm (964 words)

	NamibWeb.com - The online guide to Namibia: People of Namibia
		According to the legend the Herero came from ''a country of mountains''.
		The word Herero may be derived from ''okuhera'', meaning ''to throw an assegai''.
		Herero chief Hosea Kutako became a national hero when he petitioned to UN protesting illegal presence of South Africa in Namibia.
	www.namibweb.com /people.html (1747 words)

	Herero \| People of Namibia \| Namibia... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Herero is one of the most important Bantu languages in south-western Africa (Namibia and west Botswana).
		It was the Herero people themselves who thought that their history ought to be written down.
		It is believed that the Herero people are descendants of the large groups of people, who migrated southward from Central Africa during the 16th century.
	manyeleti.krugerpark.co.za /africa_herero_p2.html (578 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Herero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HERERO [Herero], Bantu people, mainly in Namibia and Botswana.
		A pastoral tribe noted for their large cattle herds, the Herero probably migrated from the region of Lake Tanganyika in the 18th cent.
		Their territory was annexed (1885) as a part of German South West Africa, and from 1903 to 1907 they rebelled against German rule and were almost exterminated.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Herero.asp (244 words)

	Everyone should back Herero reparations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Herero challenge to the colonisers was no doubt a pain in their backside and could not to be tolerated for long by the militarily superior Schutztruppe.
		Continuous Herero harassment of the Schutztruppe and the many colonial officials who were daily entering the country in big numbers, finally led to the order by Von Trotha to exterminate the whole Herero nation.
		Herero people were also herded into extermination camps and either shot or hanged in large numbers.
	www.namibian.com.na /2004/march/letters/042BCB67EF.html (1337 words)

	International Reporting Project - Fellows' Stories
		It was in Okahandja, the Herero capital, that Herero leaders mounted an armed rebellion in 1904.
		According to recent historical works, the general soon vanquished Herero troops and embarked on a campaign of annihilation against civilians that was to hint ominously at the Nazi holocaust to come.
		Herero leaders say independence motivated them to begin seeking reparations, when it became clear that the new democracy would condemn Herero descendents of the massacres to second-class citizenship.
	www.journalismfellowships.org /stories/namibia/namibia_apology.htm (1599 words)

	Herero \| People of Namibia \| Namibia... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Herero were a fearless and warlike nation, taking on the might of the German empire in 1904.
		Almost the whole local Herero community died and the graveyard in the Waterberg Plateau Park reminds us of this tragedy.
		The Herero tribe of the Waterberg area is extremely distinctive, mainly because of the ladies extravagant Victorian dress.
	namibia.safari.co.za /africa_herero.html (481 words)

	afrol News - Germany urged to recognise "Herero genocide" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An estimated 75,000 Herero and Nama were slaughtered in the crack-down on a popular uprising against the newly arrived colonial masters.
		Many of those Herero and Nama that survived this slaughtering were sent to specially erected concentration camps or to forced employment on German commercial farms.
		First of all, the "Herero genocide victims" should be honoured with a memorial tablet at the Central Memorial of Germany in the same way as other victims of German war atrocities throughout history.
	www.afrol.com /articles/13487 (731 words)

	Goethe-Institut Rembering 1904 - Forum
		The 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the so-called “Herero uprising” in former German South West Africa, present-day Namibia, was in January 2004.
		This opportunity came at the beginning of 1904 as the "Schutztruppe", the German colonial force, was in the south of the colony suppressing a local uprising.
		After their defeat in the Waterberg battle in August 1905, the Herero survivors were pushed back to the arid Omaheke desert.
	www.goethe.de /ins/na/prj/eri/mfo/en99974.htm (674 words)

	H-Net Review: Marion Wallace on Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of ...
		The 1904 Herero and Nama uprisings against German rule are among the best-known events in the history of Namibia.
		The orthodoxy that the war constituted a pre-planned attack on Germans by Herero, under the leadership of Samuel Maharero, is, he argues, a myth that was invented later by the authorities in order to justify their actions.
		While Herero society seems not to have been fertile ground for the rise of individual prophets or healers (ozombuke and ozonganga), much ethnographic writing shows that, from at least the mid-nineteenth century, male heads of household were leaders (called ovarangere and later ozondangere) in the ceremonies around the holy fire (which included healing).
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9073993580749 (1944 words)

	Herero People of Namibia
		The Herero can be divided into several sub-groups the biggest of which includes the Tjimba and Ndamuranda groups who live Kaokoland, the Mahereo who are found around Okahandja and the Zeraua who are found in the area around Omaruru.
		Until the colonial period the Herero prospered in the central grassland areas, where there was ample grazing for their cattle, but a succession of battles with the northward migrating Nama, and more severely the German colonial troops led to about 75% of the Herero population been exterminated.
		The Herero are proud cattle farmers who measure their wealth in cattle, the importance of cattle to these people is even evident in the Herero womens' dresses.
	www.namibian.org /travel/namibia/population/herero.htm (410 words)

	Herero want Germany to pay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some 2 000 Herero from across Namibia gathered at Okahandja, 70km north of Windhoek, to pay tribute to the ancestral grave of their traditional chief and remember the cruel 1904-08 war of the German colonial forces.
		The Herero have commemorated this day in August every year since 1923, taking part in a solemn procession dressed in colourful traditional garb on horseback to the grave site of chief Samuel Maharero, who led the 1904 uprising against colonial rule.
		The tragedy is remembered by Namibia's 120 000 Hereros as genocide perpetrated by Germany, which ruled the then German South West Africa from 1884 to 1915.
	www.news24.com /News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1761125,00.html (395 words)

	Herero \| People of Namibia \| Namibia... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, they started clashing from 1830 onwards, with the northward moving Nama who together with the Orlam clan, the Afrikaners, drove the Herero from their southernmost settlement in the area where Windhoek is today.
		Despite having an army of only 7,000 warriors, the Herero were able to use the element of surprise to score key victories early in the fighting, resulting in them regaining control of much of central South West Africa.
		The arrival of more German colonial troops resulted in the infamous 'Extermination Order' during which 75% of the Herero population perished and the survivors were scattered all over the country.
	www.safari.co.za /africa_herero.html (1250 words)

	herero language
		Herero language Herero (Otjiherero) is a language of the Bantu family (Niger-Congo group).
		Herero Otsiherero is a language of the Bantu family Niger-Congo group It is spoken by Herero people in Namibia 113000 and Botswana Total population in both...
		Lecturing: Herero literature; Swahili literature; Herero language; socio-linguistics of Namibia; lexicography (University of Vienna); socio-linguistics of...
	www.yesprice.it /search/Herero-language.htm (221 words)

	Africa on the Matrix: Herero People of Namibia
		The Herero (together with the Himba) moved into present-day Namibia and Botswana as part of a larger migration of Bantu-speaking peoples from east Africa several hundred years ago.
		During the 19th century, the Herero came under the influence of German missionaries who took exception to what they considered to be the immodesty of the traditional Herero dress, or lack of dress (it was similar to the what we see with the Himba today).
		As a hat, Herero women wear a uniquely shaped headpiece that is said to resemble (and pay homage to) the horns of their cattle.
	www.on-the-matrix.com /africa/herero.asp (591 words)

	Remembering the Herero Rebellion \| Current Affairs \| Deutsche Welle \| 11.01.2004
		Namibia on Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of the Herero Rebellion, remembering one of the darkest chapters of Germany’s colonial past in what was once German Southwest Africa.
		On January 11, 1904, Herero tribal leader Samuel Maharero called for his people to rise up and fight against their German colonial rulers in the southwestern part of Africa that would one day become modern Namibia.
		The Herero never completely recovered from the conflict and of the around 100,000 that today live in Namibia many live in poverty or work on the farms of white landowners.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1084266,00.html (794 words)

	GENOCIDE - Namibia
		Under his command, the German troops slowly drove the Herero warriors to a position where they could be hemmed in by attack on three sides.
		After the Herero uprising had been systematically put down, by shooting or enforced slow death in the desert from starvation, thirst and disease (the fate of many women and children), those who still lived were rounded up, banned from owning land or cattle, and sent into labour camps to be the slaves of German settlers.
		I ask you, where are the Herero today?' During the Nama uprising, half the tribe (over 10,000) were killed; the 9,000 or so left were confined in concentration camps.
	www.ppu.org.uk /genocide/g_namibia1.html (664 words)

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