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	MASAI - LoveToKnow Article on MASAI
		The Masai were probably isolated in the high niountains or plateaus which lie between the Nile and the Karamojo country.
		Meantime the Masai became masters of the greater part of inner East Africa from Ugogo and the Unyamwezi countries on the south and west to Mount Kenya and Galla-land on the north, and eastward to the hundred-mile strip of more or less settled Bantu country on the coast of the Indian Ocean.
		The Masai believe in a nature-god as a supreme beingNgai (sky)and his aid is invoked in cases of drought by a ceremonial chant of the children, standing in a circle after sunset, each with a bunch of grass in its hand.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MASAI.htm (1174 words)

	Breeds of Livestock - Masai Cattle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Masai cattle vary considerable due to the centuries old practice of stealing cattle from neighboring tribes.
		This is sanctioned by the Masai legend with relates that Ngai (God) sent them cattle at the beginning of time and gave them the sole right to keep them.
		As a rule, the Masai have so many cattle that only a portion of the milk is needed for human consumption and there is plenty left for the calves.
	www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/cattle/masai (272 words)

	Masai of Kenya - Home
		The pastoral Masai occupy the Narok and Kajiado districts of Kenya, and share the Olmaa language from which their name derives within Kenya with the Samburu and Ilchamus, and across the border in Tanzania with the Arusha and Baraguyu.
		Masai youths are not circumcised until they are mature, and a new age-set is initiated together at regular intervals of twelve to fifteen years.
		Masai remain reluctant to reduce their herds to the carrying capacity of the land.
	www.masaikenya.org (678 words)

	The Masai: Maintaining Culture
		Masai are a people who are continually trying to preserve their own ways in an increasingly modern world.
		They don't slaughter their cattle for food; but if a cow is killed, then the horns are used for containers; the hides are used to make shoes, clothing, ropes, and bed coverings; and the hooves and bones are made into ornmanets.
		Masai have become known as a tribe of morani, or warriors, protecting their cattle against lions and other predators.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/cultures/masai.htm (339 words)

	Masai
		The only evidence of western man in a Masai hut might be a iron cast fry pan, a tin drinking cup or a piece or two of western clothing.
		Masai women and girls have a variety of chores besides building the dung hut.
		The image most people have of the Masai warrior is one of a tall and lean man clutching a spear in one hand with his red cloth wrapped around his waist or over his shoulders.
	www.kent.k12.wa.us /staff/DarleneBishop/kenya/masai/masai.html (689 words)

	Kenya safari guide - Kenyalogy: Parks and reserves: Masai Mara National Reserve
		Masai Mara is "The" park of parks in Kenya.
		From July to October, Masai Mara is at its peak, with the seasonal visitors populating the vast grasslands.
		But the Masai Mara region had already been deserted over the 19th century, when epidemics and tribal warfare decimated the Maasai people and drove them to a decline which they are still expecting to recover from.
	www.kenyalogy.com /eng/parques/mara.html (1199 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Kenyan Masai donate cows to US
		The cattle - regarded as sacred by the Masai - were handed over to William Brancick, deputy head of the US embassy in Kenya in a remote village near the border with Tanzania.
		For many of the Masai - who have no running water, electricity or telephones - his recollection to them of the events was the first time they had heard of the attacks in Washington and New York, which killed more than 3,000 people.
		Masai women will then fashion traditional beadwork with commemorative messages, including perhaps the Stars and Stripes of the US flag.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/2022942.stm (460 words)

	The Glory of African Beadwork
		Cattle hides are used for clothing and material for pouches, slings, and straps.) The imported beads enabled the Masai to spell out the essential beliefs and elements of their lives in their dress and personal adornment.
		A Masai man counts his wealth in his cattle, but a woman wears hers in the form of her jewelry.
		The Masai avoid symmetry in their beadwork and appear to feel an innate need to create a balance from different elements.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/afrobead/afrobead.html (2480 words)

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		The other named groups in the OWC definition are subgroups of the Masai proper or of the Kwafi at varying levels of the territorial hierarchy.
		A good, brief synthesis of Masai social organization and cultural trends is presented by Gulliver (1969: 234-41), who stresses the point that the Masai are often held to be the classic case of an East African people who are strongly committed to their particular cultural tradition.
		The Masai language is classified in the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of the Chari-Nile family of the Nilo-Saharan language stock (Greenberg 1966: esp. chap.
	lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7860 (926 words)

	Masai--A Unique and Colorful People - Jehovah's Witnesses Official Web Site
		In the Masai community, the size of a man's herd and the number of his children determine his status and importance.
		Masai homes are traditionally built by the women and are constructed of branches woven together with grass and then plastered and sealed with cow dung.
		Masai parents may arrange a daughter's marriage while she is still an infant.
	www.watchtower.org /library/g/2002/2/22/article_01.htm (1750 words)

	Cow Blood - The Congo Cookbook (African recipes) www.congocookbook.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The traditional diet of the Masai (also spelled Maasai) people in Kenya and Tanzania is derived mostly from their cattle, though they do not often eat beef; rather, they eat milk and blood which is harvested by puncturing the loose flesh on the cow's neck with an arrow.
		They [the Masai people in a village Hemingway visited] all seemed to be our great friends and we gave a very successful party with refreshments in the shape of our bread which they all ate with much laughing, the men first, then the women.
		I had heard and read that the Masai subsisted only on the blood of their cattle mixed with milk, drawing the blood off from a wound in a vein of the neck made by shooting an arrow at close range.
	www.congocookbook.com /c0141.html (468 words)

	TIME Europe \| Photo Essay - The Masai Eunoto \| 8/4/2000
		The moran's hair is shaved at the end of the eunoto, to mark his ritual passage to manhood, and the termination of his physical freedoms: namely sexual relations with the pre-pubescent and uncircumcised Masai girls, and the aggressive, sometimes lethal raids on enemy tribes, to steal cattle.
		The Masai culture is in transition today, as modern life and accoutrements invade the ancient practices and threaten them with extinction.
		The government demands that Masai adolescents be sent to Kenyan schools now, and fewer parents are allowing their sons to become traditional warror moran.
	www.time.com /time/europe/photoessays/masai (251 words)

	Masai on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MASAI [Masai] or Maasai, a largely nomadic pastoral people of E Africa, chiefly in Kenya and Tanzania.
		The Masai, who are characteristically tall and slender, live traditionally in the kraal, a compound within which are mud houses.
		Masai young warriors David Kongese, left, and Koitere Ngila herd cattle on the Lolldaiga Hills Ranch west of Mt. Kenya.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Masai.asp (947 words)

	Masai Mara - Kenya - Safari In Kenya
		Masai Mara - Kenya - Safari In Kenya
		However, the wildlife is far from being confined within the reserve boundaries, and an even larger area, generally referred to as the "dispersal area" extends north and east of the Masai Mara National Reserve.
		Once the Masai Mara National Reserve's grass has been devoured and when fresh rain in Tanzania has brought forth a new flush there, the herds turn south, heading hundreds of kilometers back to Serengeti and the Ngorongoro plains.
	www.africanmeccasafaris.com /kenya/safaris/parks/masaimara.asp (776 words)

	The Masai People
		The same note of exasperation with the Masai's refusal to conform that was sounded in the reports of early colonial officials is echoed by today's United Nations agencies bent on introducing schemes of range management, water conservation and the like.
		The leader of the white settlers, Lord Delamere, was so enamoured of the Masai that when they stole his cattle, as they often did, he refused to prosecute, and even applauded the cunning tricks they got up to when transferring cattle from his ownership to theirs.
		Schemes of range management launched by international agencies, large-scale wheat-growing projects, and the invasion of their country by land-hungry small-scale cultivators are pressing in upon the Masai, depriving them of resources essential to the nomadic pattern of their lives and forcing them into alien moulds.
	website.lineone.net /~yamaguchi/culture/kencult.html (925 words)

	Movies - Masai - Kenya - Worldpress.org
		In most films, the Masai are shown in their trademark posture, standing on one leg, or herding cattle and occasionally doing their trademark dance, jumping high in the air.
		The increasing commercialization of the Masai and their culture in the movie industry is a consequence of the high profile they have developed over the years through their reputation for courage and culture and the promotion of this image by international fashion photographers, producers of documentary films, authors, and the Kenyan tourism industry.
		Younger Masai are concerned that misrepresentation of their culture has created a fictional symbolism and distorted the reality of their community.
	www.worldpress.org /Africa/1063.cfm (1245 words)

	Masai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maasai, also known as Masai, the name of an African ethnic group from Kenya and Tanzania
		Masai, Johor, a suburb of Johor Bahru city
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Masai (97 words)

	Simple Masai gift touches America - War on Terror - www.theage.com.au
		Masai tribespeople donated 14 cows to the US after September 11.
		The Masai people of Enoosaen had only just received electricity when the US attacks occurred, although none of them saw the images on TV.
		The idea for the gesture came from Masai tribe member Kimeli Naiyomah, who was attending medical school on a scholarship at Stanford University at the time.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/07/02/1088488150404.html (516 words)

	Protesting Masai tribesmen tear-gassed \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		NAIROBI, Kenya –; Police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of Masai tribesmen who were protesting yesterday in their ongoing campaign calling for the government to hand over ancestral land acquired by colonialists 100 years ago.
		The minister said the government is investigating individuals he declined to name but described as "economic saboteurs" and he said the government would have the situation under control within a week.
		The leases on the land the Masai are claiming date from after World War II and are for 999 years in most cases, he said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040825/news_1n25kenya.html (336 words)

	Desktop Software Deployment Made Simple with Version 2.3 of MaSaI Installer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MaSaI Installer's advanced snapshot and monitoring techniques make it very simple for novice users to start creating MSI packages immediately, and MaSaI's proprietary high-speed MCE validation process makes sure the output files are compliant and in line with industry best practices.
		MaSaI Installer 2.3 is now available as a download from the MaSaI Solutions website at www.masaisolutions.com.
		MaSaI Solutions was established in 2002 by a group of experienced Packaging Engineers and Setup Installer Creators, each with over 9 years experience in the industry.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2005/6/prweb247149.htm (730 words)

	Masai
		Africaâs 5,000 metres champion Moses Masai won the 12 km senior men's title during the 14th edition of the Discovery cross country championships held in...
		Masai and Ochichi are dominant - Discovery Cross and Kenyan Police...
		The lesion on this Masai child's chin is proof of cutaneous anthrax, which he likely acquired by touching an affected animal.
	masai.korn.celebrityblog.net (293 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News - Article
		African Junior 5000m and 10,000m champion, Moses Masai took a comfortable victory in the Discovery Cross Country on Sunday (29) in Eldoret, Kenya, while Olympic Games women’s 5000m silver medallist Isabella Ochichi was also an easy winner on Saturday (28) at the Kenya Police Cross Country Championships in Nairobi.
		Moses Masai beat a strong field to win the men’s 12km race at the 14th Nike Discovery Kenya Cross Country meeting in Eldoret on Sunday.
		Masai stepped into the lead after the first half of the race and held on to the finish.
	www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=2/newsId=33314.html (581 words)

	Regulation of Initiation of S Phase, Replication Checkpoint Signaling, and Maintenance of Mitotic Chromosome Structures ...
		Ikeda, M., Arai, K., and Masai, H. A fusion protein library: an improved method for rapid screening and characterization of DNA binding or interacting proteins.
		Masai, H., Matsui, E., You, Z., Ishimi, Y., Tamai, K., and Arai, K.-I. Human Cdc7-related kinase complex: in vitro phosphorylation of MCM by concerted actions of Cdks and Cdc7 and that of a critical threonine residue of Cdc7 by Cdks.
		Masai, H., Sato, N., Takeda, T., and Arai, K.-I. Cdc7 kinase complex as a molecular switch for DNA replication.
	www.molbiolcell.org /cgi/content/full/12/5/1257 (8465 words)

	Term Paper on Masai
		Masai The Masai are an East African nomadic tribe of Kenya and Tanzania who speak Maa, an Eastern Nilotic language.
		The Masai (or Maasai) are nomadic to provide grazing and water for their cattle.
		Cattle are the center of Masai life, providing their food (milk, blood, and meat), their materials (skin for clothes and dung to seal their houses), and their only recognized form of wealth.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Masai-6304.html (185 words)

	The Masai and the National Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We hired a jeep in Arusha and headed for the heart of Masai territory.
		The Masai fearlessly tend their herds along the side of the crater.
		It is said that when a lyon and a Masai meet face to face it is the lyon who backs off...
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Shores/1244/engtext2.htm (248 words)

	Masai Mara Reserve, Kenya - top safari destination, east Africa
		Home to a variety of wildlife, the Masai Mara is one reserve where you can see the 'Big Five' in a single mornings game drive.
		The Masai Mara in Kenya stretches out over a flat grassy plain and is most famous for its annual migration of millions of wildebeest.
		The Masai Mara National Reserve is one of the most popular reserves in Kenya.
	www.go2africa.com /top_destinations/masai_mara.asp (452 words)

	Masai
		Masai or Maasai, a largely nomadic pastoral people of E Africa, chiefly in Kenya and Tanzania.
		The Masai live off the milk, blood, and meat of their livestock.
		Among these are the Nuer and the Masai.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0832069.html (329 words)

	Introduction
		The Masai Mara Game Reserve is often called simply "The Mara" which is the Maa word meaning "Mottled" - a reference to the patchy landscape.
		Both spellings "Masai" and "Maasai" are acceptable although the latter is more usual when referring to the people.
		The Masai Mara is a Game Reserve (sometimes called a National Reserve) although an inner area is treated as a National Park.
	www.masai-mara.com /mmin.htm (833 words)

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