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	The Maasai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	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)

	African Tribes - Maasai People
		They move their herds from one place to another, so that the grass has a chance to grow again; traditionally, this is made possible by a communal land tenure system in which everyone in an area shares access to water and pasture.
		Maasai society is organised into male age-groups whose members together pass through initiations to become warriors, and then elders.
		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)

	Maasai introduction - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Meeting the Maasai is one of the high points of many a safari holiday, together with seeing an elephant, a lion, rhino, cheetah and leopard for the first time.
		In the past, the Maasai were seen as the perfect 'noble savages', a foe worthy of decimation by the guns of the colonial army.
		The Maasai were in the past classed as Nilo-Hamitic (the Hamites came from north Africa, and have been proposed as one of the lost tribes of Israel), but this definition is no longer widely accepted.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/maasai (1537 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 varieties 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).
		Sonjo language, the language of a Bantu enclave in Maasai territory
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maasai_language (390 words)

	IK Monitor 2(1) Sindiga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Maasai of East Africa live in the southern part of the Republic of Kenya and in northern Tanzania.
		According to Sankan (1971:60-61), the Maasai used herbs, bark and roots which were boiled in soup that was drunk in order to improve the condition of the stomach and the blood.
		Maasai ethnobotanical knowledge of resilient, drought-resistant grasses is needed, for example, for dealing with the pressure of livestock on the range.
	www.nuffic.nl /ciran/ikdm/2-1/articles/sindiga.html (1704 words)

	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine \| Full text \| Plant use of the Maasai of Sekenani Valley, Maasai Mara, Kenya
		The Maasai Mara in particular has seen a tremendous increase in visitors and provides major income for the country, but the distribution of this wealth to the local communities is scarce [10].
		Studies on Maasai Ethnobotany of the Mara region have mainly focused on the forested areas of the Loita Hills [13,14].
		The most detailed study on the plant use of a Maasai community was conducted in Loita in 2000 [14] and was used as main comparison for this study.
	www.ethnobiomed.com /content/2/1/22 (3795 words)

	Profile of the Samburu People of Kenya
		Linguists have debated the distinction between the Samburu and Maasai languages for decades.
		Swahili is the language of education and English is taught in schools.
		Traditional Maasai prayer patterns are used by Samburu and Maasai Christians in prayer and worship.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/profiles/samburu.html (2157 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 Oral Histories Project \| The Maasai People
		Traditional Maasai live in temporary camps called enkangitie (enkang in the singular), composed of huts, called kralls or bomas, made of wooden poles and plastered with dung.
		Culture is transmitted from one generation to the next via language, and the lexicon, or unique words of a given language, express concepts central to the culture.
		When languages are lost, the unique history of tribal origins, tales of epic battles and events, and the rationale behind daily rituals, from birth to death, are also lost.
	www.maasaioralhistories.org /maasai (373 words)

	UNPO
		Maasai is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people.
		The Maasai are proud people who have steadfastly clung to their traditional values and customs, despite the fact that most other communities around them have been influenced in one way or another by modernisation and western culture.
		The Maasai came from the north of Africa, from the region of the Nile Valley in Sudan, northwest of Lake Turkana.
	www.unpo.org /member_profile.php?id=64 (1549 words)

	Profile of the Mukogodo People of Kenya
		The Maasai term was taken into Swahili in the same form, and into Kikuyu as Ndorobo.
		The Mediak language is related to Nandi, probably from the original form of the early Kalenjin settlers.
		They are more traditional than the Maasai, though like the Maasai, changing conditions are causing them to make a transition to settled living and cultivation of maize (corn).
	orvillejenkins.com /profiles/mukogodo.html (702 words)

	Maasai Parakuyo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Imusot E Purka is a Maasai pastoralist Community Based Organization (C.B.O) came into existence in 1995 as a means for pastoralists community to make a collective voice that could bring understanding to both the local government and the pastoralists community in Handeni district, Tanga region.
		It was time for Maasai to become conscious about government activities and time for government to understand the Maasai pastoralist’s issues in the district through participation in decision-making processes.
		Currently, in Tanzania the Maasai are scattered in different regions with major populations in Arusha region and the newly created region of Manyara.
	www.forafrica.org /maasai_parakuyo.htm (747 words)

	Maasai American Organization - dedicated to the promotion of education and community health
		MERC, the Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition, is a network of grassroots Maasai organizations working to preserve traditional Maasai culture and, as an expression of that culture, to protect the unique land and wildlife of Maasailand for future generations.
		Its mission is to support the preservation of Maasai traditions while helping communities build for their future with education and community-based development.
		The mission of Maasai Education Discovery (MED) is to help the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania, especially women and girls, as well as other marginalized peoples without access to quality education achieve sustainable development and gain greater access to educational opportunities, which are currently denied them.
	www.maasaiamerican.org /links.htm (469 words)

	Profile of the Dorobo Peoples of Kenya and Tanzania
		The Mukogodo Maasai consider themselves a sub-tribe of the Maasai and speak the Maasai language (Maa).
		The Mediak and Mosiro of Tanzania speak languages related to the Nandi language in Kenya, probably from the original form of the early Kalenjin settlers.
		The Maasai Dorobo, however, constitute an ironworkers clan of the Maasai, while the Mukogodo Maasai are herders and raiders in the central Maasai tradition.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/profiles/dorobo.html (1080 words)

	Maasai Talk at Rochedale State School
		Maasai males are rigidly classed by age into boys, warriors, and elders.
		The Maasai, most of whom are nomadic throughout the year, live in kraals, small clusters of cow-dung huts constructed by the women.
		Because of this, it was a common activity for them to take their spears and shields and go and steal back cattle that were in the possession of other tribes.
	www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au /maasai.htm (529 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)

	Maasai Language Project
		and the traditional grazing lands of the Maasai are intersected by the international Kenya-Tanzania border.
		As socio-cultural changes occur, the language is also facing the probability of considerable change.
		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.
	www.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/maasai/madict.htm (415 words)

	maling
		Maa: A Dictionary of the Maasai Language and Folklore, English-Maasai.
		Wallace, B. The morphophonemics of the Maasai verb.
		Winter, J. Language shift among the Aasáx, a hunter-gratherer tribe in Tanzania.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/maasai/maling.htm (373 words)

	Tanzanian Luxury Maasai Lodge - E Unoto Retreat
		A novel about a Maasai warrior who lived in the Rift Valley of Ngorongoro and Serengeti area during the time the Germans began to enter Maasailand.
		Subtitled "The Maasai of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania", this is a fine summary of the people and the problems.
		An autobiography explaining in details life as a Maasai growing up Ngorongoro and comparative life in several other parts of the world.
	www.maasaivillage.com /suggestedreading.htm (203 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:mas
		One source reports that Arusha who are pastoralists dress like the Maasai and speak a Maasai-related variety, whereas those who are agriculturalists intermarry with the Chaga.
		The Baraguyu speak Maasai, but they consider themselves to be a separate ethnic group from the Maasai.
		"The interpretation of "possessor raising" in a Maasai dialect."
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=mas (294 words)

	Maasai
		Here the open grasslands were perfectly suited to their semi-nomadic pastoral lifestyle and by the mid-1800s the Maasai dominated the area and were renowned for their cattle raids far beyond the borders of their territory.
		Wildlife is regarded as sacred by the Maasai, but predators such as lion are a threat to their herds and have traditionally been hunted by groups of warriors or morani.
		The Maasai culture is comprised of a number of different clans in different parts of Tanzania and Kenya and all CC Africa lodges in East Africa (Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, Grumeti River Lodge, Klein’s Camp, Kichwa Tembo and Bateleur Camp) fall into areas populated by Maasai.
	www.wildwatch.com /resources/other/maasai.asp (642 words)

	Descriptive Linguistics and Typology - Department of Linguistics - University of Oregon
		Descriptive Linguistics is concerned with the documentation of all aspects of individual languages, including their sound structure (phonetics and phonology), word structure (morphology), phrase and sentence structure (syntax), semantics, discourse patterns, and pragmatics of use.
		On the one hand, descriptive research on a wide variety of languages is an essential foundation for attempts to explain why general properties of the human linguistic capacity, and linguistic forms, meaning, and use, are the way they are.
		Maa is the language spoken by some 800,000 Maasai, Samburu, Camus, and Okiek peoples, ranging from south of Lake Turkana in Kenya to central Tanzania.
	logos.uoregon.edu /research/descriptive_linquistics.html (1228 words)

	Tim and Lara Beth's Kenya Page - Maasai
		Probably among the best known and most easily recognized of Kenya's people, the Maasai are a pastoral people whose name was derived from their language, Maa.
		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.
	www.blissites.com /kenya/people/maasai.html (635 words)

	maasai.net - welcome to the online home of dan and connie crum
		The “incarnational” model of ministry was followed — live among the people, learn their language, study their culture, build relationships, then present the gospel in a context the Maasai can understand.
		CMF was also heavily involved in the Kenya Bible Society’s effort to have the whole Bible translated and printed into the Maasai language (1992), as well as adult literacy since most Maasai could not read at that time.
		A committee of Maasai church leaders was formed to advise the missionaries.
	www.maasai.net /history.html (757 words)

	Maasai language and pronunciation
		The Maasai or Masai language is a member of the East Niolitic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
		The term Maasai refers to "one who speaks the Maa language".
		As far as what I know from a long time ago, like the time there was fighting I can remember a lot about that time because a long time ago, there was...At that time there was a person named Inkimis.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/maasai.htm (111 words)

	Ngomongo Villages: Know the tribes at Ngomongo Villages
		The Maasai are part of the Niloticfamily of African tribal groups, and probably migrated from the Nile valley in Sudan to central and south-western Kenya and northern Tanzania sometime after 1500 AD, bringing their domesticated cattle with them.
		The Kalenjin languages are a group of twelve related Southern Nilotic languages spoken in Kenya, eastern Uganda and northern Tanzania.
		They call their language Dhaluo, which is mutually intelligible the languages of the Lango, Kumam and Padhola of Uganda, Acholi of Uganda and Sudan and Alur of Uganda and Congo.
	www.ngomongo.com /Tribes.html (1721 words)

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