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	Carmelite presence in Turkana, Kenya
		The Turkana desert is an area of approximately 70,000 square kilometres of desert and semi desert territory in Northwest Kenya, East Africa.
		The Turkana desert is bounded on the North by Sudan, on the West by Uganda, on the East by Lake Turkana (formerly Lake Rudolph) and separated from the remainder of Kenya by the high mountains of West Pokot.
		Since Turkana society is polygamous and since a substantial bride price is payable to the father of the bride on the occasion of marriage every father ambitions a wealthy marriage for his daughters.
	www.carmelites.ie /Ireland/turkana.htm (2980 words)

	WXGR gritty - Indepth - Turkana Radio Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Turkana speak a language of the Eastern Nilotic group and apparently moved to their present lands about 200 years ago from an area now in northeastern Uganda where the closely related Jie and Karamojong still live.
		The basic Turkana social unit is an elementary family: a husband, a wife or wives, and their unmarried children.
		Turkana men belong to either of two alternating age sets, called Stones and Leopards; a man is of the set opposite to that of his father.
	www.wxgr.org /InDepthPages/Turkana/Turkana.html (1436 words)

	Turkana religion and beliefs - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Nowadays, however, the Turkana are obliged to bury all their dead by law, although this is only verifiable in permanent settlements and in places where Christian missionaries have influence.
		From the traditionalist's standpoint, the lack of success met by the Christian missions among the Turkana is a wholly refreshing change from the usual tale of conversion followed by swift entry into settled life, cash economy and abandonment of many pre-Christian beliefs, customs, rituals and musics.
		Of Turkana District's six hospitals, four are run by churches; six of the seven health centres are Christian-run, as are 25 of its 27 dispensaries.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/turkana/beliefs.htm (2363 words)

	Turkana, Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Turkana depression is the lower ground between the Kenyan and Ethiopian highlands.
		Turkana is one of the best places in the world to find many fossils.
		North Turkana is an erosion surface that was fractured and flooded by fissural basalts.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/africa/turkana.html (319 words)

	Turkana
		Turkana is typically understood in these ways, a place that is emotional and extreme, and that bears little relation to life in the rest of Kenya and beyond.
		Knowledge of the Turkana environment is influenced by similar grandiose leaps in judgment, ones encapsulated in anecdotes that indoctrinate, that frighten, and that agonize.
		Ultimately, the Turkana need the liberty to make their own decisions, as well as the self-determination to realize their own ideas of human and natural resource development apart from what is prescribed or reasoned to best for them by outside policy makers, legislators, researchers, and charitable and other non governmental organisations.
	www.worldlakes.org /uploads/turkana.htm (2594 words)

	Turkana introduction - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		With a population of somewhere between 250,000 and 340,000, the Nilotic-speaking Turkana are Kenya's third-largest tribe, as well as the country's second-largest group of pastoralists, after the Maasai.
		The majority live in Turkana District of Rift Valley Province in the arid northwest of Kenya, bounded to the north by Sudan, by Uganda to the west, to the south by the Pokot and Samburu peoples, and to the east by Lake Turkana (formerly called Lake Rudolf) and its volcanic hills.
		The Turkana are sometimes classed under the Karamajong (Karamojong, or Karimojong) ethnic cluster ("Karamajong Cluster"), which includes the Karamajong, Jie, Dodoth (Dodos), Teso, Eyan, Toposa, Donyiro (Dongiro), and Jiye.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/turkana (966 words)

	Lake Turkana - The Jade Sea
		Lake Turkana is perhaps the largest desert lake in the world, measuring about 7000sq kms and fed by three rivers: the Omo of Ethiopia, the Turkwel and the Kerio.
		Accommodation comprises of sixteen individual rustic timber cabins of size 24 x 10 feet, each of which is self contained with a bathroom (shower/toilet/sink) and a large verandah size 24 x 10 feet affording a magnificent view of the lake; one twin family cabins unit; and one, two-bed roomed VIP unit.
		A traditional Turkana village is situated a short walk from the Lodge and may be visited upon request to share a glimpse of their lifestyles.
	www.ivorynet.com /laketurkana.htm (1807 words)

	Friends United Meeting: World Missions
		Sharing international borders with Uganda, the Sudan, and Ethiopia, the Turkana District —an arid, low lying plain which averages between 120 and 430 mm of rainfall each year —forms the northwest corner of Kenya.
		The Turkana Friends Mission works with them to enhance and strengthen the material and the spiritual lives of individuals and communities.
		Turkana Friends have continuously worked with the community to provide improved educational, health, community, and children's services since its founding in 1970, and its formal registration in 1972.
	fum.org /worldmissions/turkana.html (386 words)

	Oxfam - Climate change - Climate change in Turkana: a way of life under threat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the people of Turkana, their way of life is now threatened if the world turns its back on the climatic causes of Turkana’s problems.
		Turkana District in north-west Kenya has been one of the areas worst affected, and is an area where Oxfam has worked for many years.
		In parts of Turkana this latest drought is called “Atiaktiak ng’awiyei”, which means “the one that divided homes”, because so many families had to split up to survive, with people having to migrate in all directions to the borders, towns, and relief camps.
	www.oxfam.org.uk /what_we_do/issues/climate_change/story_turkana.htm (2028 words)

	Lake Turkana - Africa - Kenya
		A little south of Turkana is a seasonal lake, Logipi, situated in the Suguta valley, reckoned to be one of the hottest places on earth.
		Although thousands of years ago Lake Turkana fed the White Nile, it now has no outlet and the shoreline of this inland sea is slowly receding in the face of the harsh sun and ever less water reaching the lake from the seasonal floods of the Omo and Turkwell rivers.
		The fascination of Turkana is partly its remoteness and partly its savage terrain.
	www.africanmeccasafaris.com /kenya/guide/laketurkana.asp (630 words)

	Turkana IV - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki
		The Class-M world Turkana IV is the fourth planet of the Turkana system and host of a failed Federation colony.
		The Turkana government gave emergency powers to the two largest factions, the Coalition and the Alliance, but it was quickly overthrown by those cadres, and the planet broke away from the Federation in the 2350s, the two factions declaring the planet's independence.
		Turkana IV also appeared in the starchart Data and Picard were studying in Stellar Cartography in 2371.
	www.memory-alpha.org /en/index.php/Turkana_IV (376 words)

	Lake Turkana
		Lake Turkana is a massive inland sea, the largest desert lake in the world (6,405 sq km).
		Turkana has one of the longest living histories on earth, and recent fossil evidence unearthed at Koobi Fora has led to the Lake being referred to as 'The Cradle of Mankind'.
		Lake Turkana is Kenya's most remote destination, but one that repays the intrepid traveller with rich rewards...
	www.indiatravelite.com /kenya/turkana.htm (246 words)

	Turkana people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The language of the Turkana, an Eastern Nilotic language, is also called Turkana; their own name for it is Ng'aturk(w)ana.
		The Turkana are noted for raising camels and weaving baskets.
		It is not uncommon for Turkana men to lead polygamistic lifestyles, since livestock wealth will determine the amount of respective wives that he can negotiate for and support.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkana_people (325 words)

	Africa Christian Missions International
		Now with a population of somewhere between 250,000 and 340,000, the Nilotic-speaking Turkana are Kenya's third-largest tribe, as well as the country's second-largest group of pastoralists, after the Maasai.
		Turkana communities are based instead on the neighborhood (adakar).
		The traditional Turkana weapons, used to protect their herds and possessions from wild animals and other tribes, include an eight foot long spear, a knobkerrie fighting stick, wrist knives, finger hooks, and a shield made from buffalo, giraffe, or hippo hide.
	www.missionsafrica.org /bases/turkana.php (1336 words)

	Turkana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Turkana families often build next to the awi of other families, creating the neighborhoods that are the Turkana's effective communities.
		Turkana women often wear huge quantities of beads around their necks, along with an aluminum or brass neck ring (alagam).
		The traditional Turkana weapons, used to protect their herds and possessions from wild animals and other tribes, iinclude an eight foot long spear, a knobkerrie fighting stick, wrist knives, fingerhooks, and a shield made from buffalo, giraffe, or hippo hide.
	www.ithanga.org /turkana.htm (505 words)

	Kenyan Culture - The Turkana
		The actual name "Turkana" is something of a mystery, with the most commonly ascribed meaning being a corruption of 'turkwen', which means 'cave people', or 'aturkan' which means 'cave land'.
		The Turkana themselves make a distinction between an agriculturalist section named Ngicuro (who live in the western highlands on the Ugandan border), who are said to have come from the Teso people; and the remaining eighteen pastoralist sections called Ngimonia, who came from the Jie.
		What is important to note is that the Turkana are indisputably related to the Karamajong tribes (and keep a number of their traditions to the present-day, such as not circumcising), and that they came originally from the north in what is now Southern Sudan or Ethiopia.
	www.enchanted-landscapes.com /culture/3_clt_turkana.htm (706 words)

	Struggling against drought in Turkana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Perhaps one of the worst outcomes of Turkana’s five-year drought is the rise in armed conflict, especially along the border region of Uganda.
		Increasingly, the Turkana are resorting to using guns in their battle to preserve their way of life.
		Despite the fact that the Turkana are accustomed to such a harsh existence and are determined to preserve their way of life, serious doubt exists about their ability to survive if the drought continues.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=47464 (1132 words)

	Lake Turkana-Linda Quinet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lake Turkana, a glittering jewel in the northern deserts of Kenya's Rift Valley in East Africa, is a startling contrast to the extinct volcanoes, barren rock and lava beds that frame it.
		Detouring along the eastern shore of Lake Turkana due to bad weather, he saw what he thought might be layers of lake deposits.
		However, routine walks of 30 kilometers are a necessary duty, balancing on her head the sun-dried catch made by her father to sell at the nearest population center.
	www.romartraveler.com /RomarPages/LakeTurkana-Quinet.html (1770 words)

	Tim and Lara Beth's Kenya Page - Lake Turkana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lake Turkana, the subject of John Hillaby's Journey to the Jade Sea, is the destination of choice in northern Kenya as well as the largest permanent desert lake in the world.
		Turkana's fish are legendary in Kenya, with its Nile perch reaching weights of over 800 kilograms (over 360 pounds).
		Ferguson's Gulf Fishing Lodge (also called the Lake Turkana Fishing Lodge) is located on the west side of the lake and offers the highest concentration of birds on that side.
	www.blissites.com /kenya/places/turkana.html (290 words)

	Project Turkana
		In partnership with the local people of Turkana we identify humanitarian projects, which are carried out mainly by local people with the help of external consultants and our on-site overseas partners.
		The whole District of Turkana (Kenya) is generally a semi-desert.
		The majority of the population belong to the Turkana tribe who are mainly nomadic herdsmen.
	www.projectturkana.org /index.htm (132 words)

	PanAfrLoc \| PanAfrLoc / TesoTurkana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Turkana is spoken in Kenya (Turkana District and around Isiolo town, Samburu District) (from Dimmendaal, personal communication, 1983).
		Northern Turkana and Eastern Toposa are closer; Southern Turkana and Western Toposa are farther apart linguistically.
		Teso and Turkana are local languages and are used as a language of instruction in district schools.
	www.bisharat.net /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/TesoTurkana (370 words)

	Turkana Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turkana Boy is classified as either Homo erectus or Homo ergaster.
		Turkana Boy appears to have matured at a rate in between modern humans and apes.
		The cranial capacity of Turkana Boy was about 880 cc, although if he had lived to adulthood, it would have been about 910 cc, which is considerably smaller than the 1350 cc cranial capacity of modern humans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turkana_Boy (1032 words)

	T U R K A N A T u r k i s h M u s i c B a n d
		TURKANA was established in Columbus (Ohio) in the Fall of 1997.
		TURKANA performs its own compositions as well as music that are popular in Turkey.
		TURKANA has been and is being broadcasted by local NPR stations.
	bahrikaracay.com /turkana/index.html (225 words)

	Alexander the Great Captures the Hearts of the Turkana Tribe
		It was this relationship which helped the Turkana to open their hearts and talk of their glorious ancestry, as they believe it to be, as it has been passed down from generation to generation.
		The Turkana were sad when the time came for Alexander, the man who had taught them so many useful things, the man of goodness and hope, to leave.
		Indeed, the Turkana believe that much of what they have and many of their customs come from the time when Alexander the Great was with them.
	www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org /articles/misc/makarios_zimbabwe_alexander_great.htm (1630 words)

	turkana Photo Gallery by Niall O'Shea at pbase.com
		The point of the documentary was to report on a marginalised community such as the Turkana, a tribe inhabiting the region around the 2nd largest desert lake by the same name, as they live normally, not just when there is a crisis.
		Though in fact, Turkana suffers from a more drawn-out crisis, that of drought on the one hand, compounded by corrupt central governments that have all but abandoned the Turkana to fend for themselves.
		Turkana is a hot, dry place: there is little wildlife and roads consist of precipitous dirt tracks that traverse endless dry riverbeds.
	www.pbase.com /type/turkana (1292 words)

	Lake Turkana, Kenya, East Africa - Eco-resorts
		Lake Turkana, otherwise known as the Jade Sea, is 265 km long with an average width of 30 km.
		Lake Turkana is a deep alkaline green and scenic beyond belief, surrounded by cliffs, gentle beaches, deserts and dark outcrops of volcanic rock.
		A rock hound's joy, the Turkana area is rich in geodes, meteorites and semi-precious stones such as amethysts and garnets, all of which are easily found when walking near the Lake shore.
	www.eco-resorts.com /LakeTurkana.php (551 words)

	Guided tours to Turkey - Turkana Odyssey
		Turkana Odyssey shall not be liable for any loss whatsoever to passengers by reasons of such cancellation, substitution or changes.
		Turkana Odyssey cannot be responsible for penalties assessed by air carriers that may result due to operational and/or itinerary changes, regardless if the passenger and/or Turkana Odyssey makes the flight arrangements.
		Turkana Odyssey uses accredited guides trained in the Turkish government school, who hold advanced university degrees, and are fluent in English.
	www.tribal-kilims.com /tours.asp (4215 words)

	GORP - Lake Turkana and Sibiloi National Park
		Turkana's crocodile population, which numbers around 12,000 is the largest single surviving community.
		Within the park is a petrified forest, surviving to tell the tale that 7 million years ago this area was lush and densely forested.
		Turkana is renowned for its impressive variety of birdlife.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/africa/kenya/ke_turka.htm (800 words)

	Lake Turkana, Kenya
		The nickname for Lake Turkana is due to algae particles which shift with changes to the wind and light, so the water surface moves from blue to gray to jade.
		Turkana is the largest desert lake in the world and the surroundings are steeped in prehistoric history.
		Lake Turkana is home to thousands of crocodiles, hippos and more than 40 different species of fish.
	www.planetware.com /kenya/lake-turkana-ken-ne-turk.htm (200 words)

	Kenya, Africa - Lake Turkana in Kenya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As the largest and most northern of the Rift Valley lakes, Lake Turkana covers an area of 7,500 sq km.
		Today, Turkana has no outlet and the water is highly alkaline and barely drinkable.
		Loyangalani is a remote settlement on the shores of the lake populated by Turkana tribespeople.
	www.jambokenya.com /jambo/location/lturkana.htm (158 words)

	PALEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS OF VERTISOLS WITHIN THE KOOBI FORA FORMATION, TURKANA BASIN, NORTHERN KENYA
		The Plio-Pleistocene sediments of the Omo Group in the Turkana Basin record the paleogeographic, paleoclimatologic and paleoecologic history of the basin during the interval of early man's occupation of the basin.
		The Koobi Fora Formation of the Omo Group is exposed along the eastern shores of Lake Turkana at the junction of the Gregory Rift and the Main Ethiopian Rift (Figure 1).
		The seasonality of the moisture regime is defined by a short wet season during which the soil cracks are closed separated by a dry season of at least 4 months which leads to the formation of the soil cracks and associated vertic morphological features.
	www.lib.utah.edu /epubs/undergrad/vol6/wynn.html (2707 words)

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