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	Tribe
		Iowa tribe The Iowa tribe are a Oklahoma.
		Peoria (tribe) The Peoria tribe was one of the Oklahoma).
		The Tribe of Gad settled east of the Judah.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/tribe.html (1109 words)

	nuer
		In the larger tribes to the west of the Nile and in all the tribes to the east of it, we find that the tribal area is divided into a number of territorial sections separated by stretches of unoccupied country, which intervene also between the nearest habitations of contiguous tribes.
		Nuer age-sets are a tribal institution in the sense that, in the larger tribes at any rate, all the sections of a tribe have the same open and closed periods and call the sets by the same names.
		Nuer are unanimous in stating that they did not arise much before the end of the last century and there is some evidence to suggest that their emergence was connected with the spread of Mahdism.
	instruct.uwo.ca /anthro/301/eppoli.htm (8339 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)

	Gambella Region of Ethiopia News July 2002 to Nov 2003 -- Prevent Genocide International
		The Nuers nominated their former party’s (GPDUP) secretary (now the chairman), who happens to be also the Regional head of Trade, Transport and Tourism Bureau as well as a member of the Regional and Federation Councils, to occupy the post on their behalf.
		The Nuer areas are particularly prone to attack by Lou Nuer tribes and Murle from across the border.
		Nuer militias in turn permit the easy flow of arms to Gambella primarily through the Sudanese Nuer who are always at liberty to move back and force across the border carrying out a lucrative arms trade.
	www.preventgenocide.org /africa/ethiopia/gambella/2003.htm (18485 words)

	NAATH NUER AT LARGE!: HOME OF THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this book we are not describing Nuer cosmology but their political and other institutions, and are, therefore, interested mainly in the influence of oecological relations on these institutions rather than the influence of the social structure on the conceptualization of the oecological relations.
		In describing Nuer concepts of time we may distinguish between those that are mainly reflections of their relations to environment, which we call oecological time, and those that are reflections of their relations to one another in the social structure, which we call structural time.
		Nuer have a proper contempt for Dinka and are derisive of their fighting qualities, saying that they show as little skill as courage.
	www.freewebs.com /dengtaath (11330 words)

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		This membership in a patrilineal descent group is a benefit to the Nuer because it confers rights in land, so they can gain land after a member of their kin group has passed on.
		There are the Garjok, Garjak, and Jekiang who all life in Nasser District; the Lau tribe in the Abwong District; the Gawei in the Fanjak District; the Lak and Thiang from Zeraf Island in the Fanjak District; and there are the Western Nuer from the Yivrol District.
		The Nuer populations have slowly declined over the years, thanks to the introduction of disease in the tribe by outsiders.
	www.orty.com /ubws/other/nuer.html (3591 words)

	A PEOPLE whose material culture is as simple as that of the Nuer are highly dependent on their environment
		Some tribes cultivate more and some less, according to conditions of soil and surface water and their wealth in cattle, but all alike regard horticulture as toil forced on them by poverty of stock, for at heart they are herds-men, and the only labour in which they delight is care of cattle.
		The attitude of Nuer towards, and their relations with, neighbouring peoples are influenced by their love of cattle and their desire to acquire them.
		Each Nuer tribe and tribal section has its own pastures and water-supplies, and political fission is closely related to distribution of these natural resources, ownership of which is generally expressed in terms of clans and lineages.
	faculty.dwc.edu /wellman/cattle.htm (1962 words)

	Nuer tribe - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Nuer are one of the largest group of people who live in southern Sudan and west Ethiopian region of Africa.
		Nuer warriors were noted to be one of the most skilled in East Africa, with weapons made of fine crafted iron.
		Typical food eaten by the Nuer tribe (or at least the author's sisters, who lived in Ethiopia while growing up) includes beef, sourdough corn ball pasta, Anjara bread (large, sour dough pancake) and mangos.
	www.free-definition.com /Nuer-tribe.html (324 words)

	Captives -
		The capture of children and adults in war and by raiding parties was and still is a fairly common practice.
		One of the very few differences between these Dinka-Nuer adoptees and the Nuer was that the Dinka-Nuer were not subject to the full extent of the exogamy rules for marriage.
		Following the introduction of European diseases and the terrible plagues these caused, with death rates of over 50% in the 1630s epidemics alone, mourning wars led in some areas to quite amazing adoption rates: some missionaries in the 1660s estimated that over 60% of the population of some villages were captive adoptees.
	famous.adoption.com /famous/captives.html (707 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Sudanese Emigres Seek Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Deng and about 60 other representatives from the two main tribes of southern Sudan are meeting at a Southeast Washington church, the first such gathering outside Sudan, for a two-day reconciliation conference aimed at adding momentum to peace efforts in their homeland.
		Participants such as Deng, who spends much of her time mentoring others in the Nuer community in Sioux Falls, said an important step is for tensions among Dinka and Nuer living in the United States to ease.
		The tensions are such that if a member of one tribe went to the home of a person from the other tribe for a meal, that person would be seen as betraying their own tribe and criticized for "eating together with somebody that could kill you," she said.
	southsudanfriends.org /washington/washpostdinkanuer.html (525 words)

	OIL AND THE UNITY OF SUDAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This policy is based on two major factors: protecting the oil regions from internal conflict and southern armed forces; and exploiting the conflict between the Nuer and Dinka tribes by financing one at the expense of the other in order to maintain a strategic balance in the oil-producing regions.
		In 1997, for example, it signed the Khartoum peace agreement with Rick Machar, a Nuer tribe leader who had held a leadership position in the SPLA until he separated from it in 1991 to become chief of the Southern States Coordination Council and leader of the Southern Defence Force.
		He broke with the government and resigned these posts in 2000 in protest against Khartoum’s support for another Nuer leader, and a conflict ensued between the two, which the central government was able to manipulate to serve its interests in terms of both military action and the negotiations.
	www.siyassa.org.eg /esiyassa/ahram/2004/4/1/REPO6.htm (998 words)

	Nuer language resources
		Nuer is spoken on a daily basis in: Sudan
		"Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin.
		The Nuer are a Nilotic poeple whose lives are organized aorund their cattle.
	www.mongabay.com /indigenous_ethnicities/languages/languages/Nuer.html (727 words)

	[Katie Iverson] E. E. Evans-Pritchard « yokim
		The distribution of the Nuer is largely determined by their environment and their subsistence.
		Nuer tribes are exclusive territorial units which run independently of each other.
		Limitations of a tribe’s political power is also the limitation of social intercourse, for any Nuer family can leave at any time and join any other tribe.
	yokim.net /text?p=68 (980 words)

	nuer tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A group of people who live in the Sudan and Ethiopia region of africa.
		Adult members of this tribe have their face covered in slice style scaring.
		Please don't take this page as being authoritive, My parents have a few of these people living with them, and I will hopefully be able to ask them to correct my perceptions 23:21, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /nuer_tribe.html (170 words)

	Douglas Chapter 8- Internal Lines
		It is believed by the Nuer that “incest brings misfortune in the form of skin disease” (131).
		Adultery is another prohibited activity for the Nuer tribe that apparently has become accepted as “risky sport in which any man may normally be tempted to indulge.
		Douglas concludes from evaluating both the moral codes and pollution rules of the Nuer that the two sets of rules do coincide from time to time, but not all morally wrong behavior has a polluting side effect, and not all pollution rules necessarily reflect immoral activity.
	www.jcu.edu /bible/101/Readings/Douglas8.htm (758 words)

	Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The massacre of men, women and children from the Nuer tribe on Akwra Island and near Kaka, is alleged to have been committed by members of Dr. Lam Akol's Sudan People's Liberation Movement/United (SPLM/U) who had defected to the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).
		A total of 29 families, Nuer and Shilluk were living on the island, all of them making a living by burning charcoal and selling it to perspective customers in Kaka, Kosti and Khartoum.
		According to the witness, the bodies were still fresh and he positively identified their facial marks as that of the Nuer tribe.
	www.cpmtsudan.org /investigations/Kaka/roi_Kaka.htm (3415 words)

	The Nuer People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Members of the Nuer tribe live in Ler, in the western upper Nile region of southern Sudan.
		The civil war between the government and rebels spilled into Ler in the autumn of 1998 and wiped out Nuer homes, basic provisions and food.
		The tribe is surviving on assistance from the United Nation's World Food Program.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/galleries/sudan/minigallery2_intro.htm (71 words)

	The Social and Political Systems of the Nuer Tribe Free Essays
		It took him four months to learn the Crow language and be able to communicate with the tribe as he attempts to be like them and earn their respect, as well as trust.
		Okonkwo vs. Unoka Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart is a story about the coming of the white man to Africa and their influence in the ultimate destruction of the primitive, tribal lifestyle of the Africans.
		The Zuni are an Indian Tribe who resides on the Arizona/New Mexico border, along the Zuni River.
	www.mytermpapers.com /search/23474.html (830 words)

	'The Porch Light Is On': A United Methodist Church Prayerfully Waits for a Sudanese Refugee Family
		They are of the Nuer tribe, one of the most persecuted tribes in Southern Sudan.
		The Nuer's homeland is rich in oil deposits and therefore sought after by the warring factions of Sudan.
		John and Sarah and their family were forced to flee the ongoing war and have been living as refugees in Kampala, Uganda for the past few years.
	gbgm-umc.org /umcor/stories/genesisumc.cfm (1100 words)

	Nuer language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over $80,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August.
		The Nuer language is a Nilo-Saharan language of the Western Nilotic group.
		It is spoken by the Nuer tribe in southern Sudan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nuer_language (69 words)

	Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The tribe that ends up with the most cattle is seen as the victor.
		As one witness told CPMT, “they had to be Murle because the Nuers have a peace agreement between themselves and one with the neighboring Dinka tribes”.
		Additionally, one of the interviewee’s had overheard Murle villagers talking about the Nuer cattle being taken from Pieri at the same time of the attack in July that was stated in the allegation.
	www.cpmtsudan.org /investigations/Murle/roi_Murle.htm (4469 words)

	Sudan article - Sudan Africa Khartoum Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Uganda Congo Central - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nahnu Djundulla Djundulwatan (We Are the Army of God and of Our Land)
		Religious leader Muhammad ibn Abdalla, the self-proclaimed Mahdi (Messiah), attempted to unify the tribes of western and central Sudan against the British Empire.
		He led a nationalist revolt culminating in the fall of Khartoum in 1885, in which the British General Charles George Gordon was killed.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Sudan (725 words)

	Biography of Simon Bilim Yiech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I am a member of the Nuer tribe, the fifth child in my family, born June 25, 1968 in South Sudan.
		Between 1993 and 1994 almost 400 Nuer refugees arrived in Des Moines and were attending services at Trinity.
		Trinity's first Nuer layworker left Des Moines to attend Concordia College in St. Paul, Minnesota, to study for the Pastoral Ministry.
	trinitydesmoines.com /simon.html (233 words)

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		Cult of the sacred spear; the story of the Nuer tribe in Ethiopia.
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/d8a2ac35d0e348b1.html (42 words)

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