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	Maasai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Maasai are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya and northern Tanzania.
		In 1994 the Maasai population in Kenya was estimated to be 453,000, and in 1993 the Tanzanian maasai population was estimated at 430,000, for a total estimated Maasai population of 883,000 [1].
		The Maasai class is determined by the amount of cows owned by the family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maasai (379 words)

	Foot and mouth treatment by Africa's Maasai
		The Maasai people, however, consider their cattle as more than simply financial assets -- a man and his herd are bound together in relationship defined by centuries of culture and survival in a harsh environment, and tempered by the changes brought about by European influences.
		Maasai communities in the United Republic of Tanzania and Kenya are in a critical transition period.
		This doesn't mean that Maasai communities are passive in the face of illness or injury, but rather that prophylaxes and cures exist within their natural world order and are transmitted in complex rituals that initiate boys into manhood and ensure the cultural and physical survival of the group.
	www.fao.org /News/2001/011207-e.htm (1240 words)

	Maasai language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maasai (autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 900,000.
		It is closely related to the other Maa languages (or better, dialects) Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburu people of central Kenya, and to Chamus, spoken south and southeast of Lake Baringo (sometimes regarded a dialect of Samburu).
		The Maasai, Samburu and il-Chamus people are historically related and all refer to their language as ɔl Maa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maasai_language (393 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Maasai in Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Maasai are indigenous (TRADITN = 1) and semi-nomadic pastoralists concentrated in the southern part of the Rift Valley Province of Kenya and in northern Tanzania (GROUPCON = 2).
		During the colonial period, the pastoral Maasai were forcibly removed from large areas of their land to allow room for European and Indian farmers and plantations.
		Maasai interests are represented by KANU and several non-governmental organizations including: Organization for the Survival of the IL-Laikipia Indigenous Maasai Group Initiatives (OSILIGI), Maasai Cultural, Wildlife and Ethical Tourism Society, and Maasai Mara Women's Group (GOJPA03 = 1).
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=50105 (867 words)

	Tanzania - the world's ultimate safari destination
		Maasai women are primarily involved with the day to day running of their households.
		The Maasai in Tanzania fared better from the initial onslaught of colonialism because there were not as many German settlers and except for small areas around Kilimanjaro, their land was not as fertile or as hospitable to Europeans.
		After the rains, the Maasai moved their herds to the more arid areas that were aburst with fresh growth, giving the richer pastures time to recover until the dry season set in.
	www.great-adventures.com /destinations/tanzania/maasai.html (3313 words)

	Maasai history - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Until the 1830s, the Maasai were not only a cohesive nation, but a formidable fighting force, whose relentless land expansion was necessated by the need to feed their ever-increasing cattle herds, which were and remain central to Maasai life and culture.
		But Maasai power was not only confined to exerting their will over neighbouring tribes: the Arabs, who had long travelled the caravan routes from the coast to the interior in search of ivory and slaves, were also obliged to cede to the Maasai.
		The Maasai have still not fully come to terms with the idea of individual ownership of it, although a promising development for them has been the recent introduction of wildlife reserves run by Maasai Group Ranches, which seems at last to be providing a steady source of income from tourism.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/maasai/history.htm (2941 words)

	The Maasai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Maasai are sometimes called Nilo-Hamitic (the Hamites came from north Africa) and all Maasai tribes share the Maa language (hence their name Maasai; they share the Maa language with the Samburu tribe from whom they split some time ago).
		The Maasai are one of the best known African tribes although not as politically powerful as the Luo or Kikuyu (despite the Maasai being dominant in some respects due to their warrior caste and effective organisation).
		Maasai families live in an Enkang (a form of enclosure, stockade or kraal) formed by a thick round 'fence' of sharp thorn bushes; this protects the tribe and their cattle, especially at night, from rival tribes and other predators.
	www.masai-mara.com /mmmaa.htm (2192 words)

	Maasai People
		Maasai are best known for their beautiful beadwork which plays an essential element in the ornamentation of the body.
		Maasai community politics are embedded in age-grade systems which separate young men and prepubescent girls from the elder men and their wives and children.
		Maasai are often portrayed as people who have not forgotten the importance of the past, and as such their knowledge of traditional healing ways has earned them respect.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Maasai.html (591 words)

	African Tribes - Maasai People
		Maasai society is organised into male age-groups whose members together pass through initiations to become warriors, and then elders.
		Maasai worship one god who dwells in all things, but may manifest himself as either kindly or destructive.
		While this has suited outsiders and some entrepreneurial Maasai who have been able to acquire land for themselves or sell it off, it has often denuded the soil and brought poverty to the majority of Maasai, who are left with too little and only the worst land.
	www.africaguide.com /culture/tribes/maasai.htm (578 words)

	Lead article - Maasai Agriculture and Land Use Change
		Maasai people are often viewed as a nomadic tribe who follows their herds to better grazing lands and water.
		Maasai herds and flocks are locked in the corral each night, leaving the unfenced grazing areas exclusively to the wildlife.
		To the Maasai the conservation of wildlife is now often viewed as an impediment to their expansion of cropping areas and increasing livestock numbers.
	www.virtualcentre.org /en/enl/vol2n1/maasai.htm (1875 words)

	The Maasai Project - the official site for the movie _Maasai_, masai and masi people
		Maasai is unique because it is a linear narrative; a classic archetypal story structure, or hero’s journey, consisting of three acts, a climax and a resolution.
		Penina is a young Maasai girl on the verge of puberty and is from the original Maasai lineage.
		Maasai ancestral songs will be used throughout the film until our hero reaches Nairobi where there’s an opportunity to contrast traditional songs with songs from the modern world, thus supporting the overall theme.
	www.maasaiproject.org /proposal.html (3635 words)

	Thomson Safaris - Newsletter Issue 30
		Maasai herds have shrunken in recent years as a result of drought and disease.
		The Authority and its enabling legislation conceived of the Maasai solely as pastoralists and did not allow for the possibility that they would need to consume 40% of their food in the form of grain.
		To learn and record what the Maasai had to say about sweeping changes to their rights of access, an international group know as the Forest, Trees and People Programme, formed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, videotaped their comments during public meetings held in November, 1995.
	thomsonsafaris.com /newsletter/nl30_maasai_nca.htm (1052 words)

	Maasai
		The ten member Maasai group popularly known as ngerine told the press that they were licensed when they discovered the culprits were not only engaged in fooling around with the 'servant' but injured her to make the animal succumb to their strange desires.
		Maasai warriors are usually known for their bravery in hunting and killing Lions that attack their cattle, but recently tables turned against them in Ngorongoro area, when a a Lion attacked three Maasai morans, hurting them badly.
		A Maasai elder, identified as Olekungu ole Onyokite, was reportedly burnt to death in one of the houses.
	www.ntz.info /gen/n00359.html (10218 words)

	Maasai Girls Education Fund - Educating a generation of Maasai girls in Kenya
		The Maasai Girls Education Fund was created to improve the literacy, health, and economic well-being of Maasai women in Kenya through education.
		To achieve is mission, the organization is committed to educating a generation of Maasai girls.
		The Maasai Girls Education Fund is currently supporting the education of more than 50 Maasai girls from the Kajiado District of Kenya from primary school to college.
	www.maasaigirlseducation.org (343 words)

	USATODAY.com - Maasai change lifestyle to fit modern Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Maasai and Samburu tribes vowed to pursue their grazing land that was leased to the British under an expired agreement.
		But new research suggests the Maasai finally are reinventing themselves as an urban tribe of entrepreneurs and ferocious security guards, as they find alternative, more modern ways of proving their prowess.
		Maasai women are selling traditional bead jewelry to tourists, work that often takes them away from home for weeks at a time.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-11-10-maasai-tribe_x.htm (1091 words)

	Maasai Language Project
		and the traditional grazing lands of the Maasai are intersected by the international Kenya-Tanzania border.
		Altogether, the traditional Maasai lifestyle is under pressure to change rapidly.
		To help document the language and Maasai culture (both traditional and modern), we are working on cross-dialect lexicographic (dictionary) and text data bases of the Maa (Maasai) language.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/maasai/madict.htm (415 words)

	The Maasai in Amboseli National Park
		Although the Maasai were allowed to remain in the reserve, they viewed the policy as a seizure of their land (Western and Wright, 1994:17).
		The hostility of the Maasai began to increase because of the physical and moral imposition caused by the reservation.
		The Maasai were also having trouble getting their compensation from the park, yet bans on hunting and wildlife cropping created an overpopulation of wildlife.
	www.globalchange.umich.edu /webprojects/w00_maasai.htm (3574 words)

	Tim and Lara Beth's Kenya Page - Maasai
		By the end of the 19th century, however, the Maasai were divided by internal conflict and further weakened by huge losses of cattle to rinderpest and drought.
		Milk, either fresh or curdled, is the basic Maasai food and is often mixed with blood tapped from a cow's jugular.
		Because of the value of cattle to the Maasai, most meat is obtained from sheep and goats.
	www.blissites.com /kenya/people/maasai.html (635 words)

	Global Mission Stories from the ELCA ELCA Global Mission - Becoming Maasai
		Maasai have a tradition that they were the first people created by God.
		In turn, when someone is recognized as loving the Maasai so much that they become Maasai, they are made a part of the tribe.
		So for the Jacobsons to be honored as becoming Maasai carries special meaning for the relationship between the church, hospital, and community.
	www.elca.org /globalmission/story/maasai.html (434 words)

	MAASAI PROJECT: Expression of ideas in Painting
		In its strictest sense, the word Maasai means speaker of the language Maa, a distinct but unwritten African tongue-the Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania still live much as they did thousands of years ago, herding cattle, sheep, and goats and existing in harmony with their peaceful environment in and around the Great Rift Valley.
		Maasai follow the growing of the grass as precious rain soaks the earth.
		As for the Maasai land that has been turned into national parks, the income gained from turism there should be channeled back to develop the Maasai.
	www.webspawner.com /users/toffa/index.html (559 words)

	Environmental Justice Cast Study: Maasai Land Rights in Kenya and Tanzania
		The Maasai, in all these dealings, lost the best dry-season rangeland in their area to the benefit of all the wildlife among which they had lived for so many years (Cheeseman, 3).
		First, the Maasai lost considerable rangeland to the rich, white British colonists in the early part of their history, and it is unknown whether or not the land they were left with can sustain the remaining population.
		The Maasai of this area will still be able to graze their herds and gather water on most of this land.
	www.umich.edu /~snre492/Jones/maasai.htm (3879 words)

	Maasai
		The Maasai live in shambas, igloo-like homes of grass and branches plastered with cattle dung.
		They are known as the “people of cattle” but they also herd sheep, goats and donkeys and, consequently, are very dependent on water and pasture for their animals.
		The Maasai live in a polygamous family structure, where men have as many wives as they can afford.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/africa/maasai.html (655 words)

	The Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania
		In times of drought the Maasai of a given locality will allow others, including non-Maasai groups, to enter their lands, because they know that at another time they might themselves be in need of access to others' land to sustain their herds.
		Black for the Maasai stands for life and happiness, because it is the colour of the dark clouds which bring the rain on which all life depends.
		The Maasai today are striving to protect their remaining lands, and have formed a number of local community organisations for this purpose.
	www.stpt.usf.edu /~jsokolov/211maasai.htm (1279 words)

	Wilderness>Maasai Mara
		The Maasai are a strongly independent people who still value tradition and ritual as an integral part of their everyday lives.
		Traditionally, the Maasai rarely hunt and living alongside wildlife in harmony is an important part of their beliefs.
		The Mara is an awesome natural wonder, a place where Maasai warriors share the plains with hunting lions, a place of mighty herds and timeless cycles of life, death and regeneration.
	www.magicalkenya.com /default.nsf/doc21/4YGEX3ADMY6?opendocument&l=1&e=1 (648 words)

	CD Baby: MAASAI: Babylon X...No Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Legendary Wailers supported by opening acts Bigga and Maasai is sure to be one of the biggest reggae fest on the island this year.
		Abdul Mateen was born in Harlem, NY and was raised in Harlem and Queens.
		MAASAI has toured up and down the East Coast with the most recent stint in Southern Florida.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/maasai (1279 words)

	Maasai Tribe
		Types of Art: Maasai are best known for their beautiful beadwork which plays an essential element in the ornamentation of the body.
		Maasai are pastoralist and have resisted the urging of the Tanzanian and Kenyan
		Young men are responsible for tending to the herds and often live in small camps, moving frequently in the constant search for water and good grazing lands.
	www.gateway-africa.com /tribe/maasai_tribe.html (596 words)

	Tanzanian Luxury Maasai Lodge - E Unoto Retreat
		Whether you visit by bicycle (refer cycling) or by vehicle, a visit to a Maasai Boma (village) is an interesting experience.
		The Maasai Market is held every Thursday for Maasai marketers only and the 22nd of each month for marketers from other tribes.
		Maasai guides escort our guests on a selection of walks, ranging from moderate to strenuous exertion that provide a wonderful natural experience in this secluded area of Tanzania.
	www.maasaivillage.com /activities2.htm (376 words)

	Maassai Baptist Ministries
		Maasai Baptist Ministries is part of the ministry of the Baptist Mission of Tanzania, Baptist Mission of Kenya, and the International Mission Board
		Indigenous—We are in constant contact with our Maasai brethren evaluating our combined efforts to reach the Maasai of East Africa with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to disciple believers to develop a faith that is true to Scripture.
		We utilize cassette tapes of the dramatized Maasai New Testament, we use the Jesus film, and we have developed specifically with the Maasai in mind.
	www.maasaibaptist.org /index.html (255 words)

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