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    living in rural areas, most Maasai people speak the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania, Swahili and English. The Maasai population has been reported...
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    the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honour of the Maasai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from...
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    Maasai people, numbering about 1.5 million. It is closely related to the other Maa varieties: Samburu (or Sampur), the language of the Samburu people...
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  • Maasai may refer to: Maasai people Maasai language Maasai mythology MAASAI (band) Masai (disambiguation) Massai This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • The Maasai religion is the traditional beliefs of the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania. In Maasai culture, nature and its elements are important facets...
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  • increase the size. The Maasai are known for using materials such as animal bones, wood, stone, and tusks for jewelry. The Fulani people are from Nigeria and...
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    regions are entitled to special protection. The Indigenous people from Tanzania's Maasai community were reportedly subjected to eviction from their ancestral...
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  • The Maasai Creed is a creed composed in 1960 by the Maasai people of East Africa in collaboration with missionaries from the Congregation of the Holy...
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    Adumu (category Maasai)
    Adumu, also known as the Maasai jumping dance, is a type of dance that the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania practice. Young Maasai warriors generally perform...
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    Masai giraffe (redirect from Maasai Giraffe)
    The Masai giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi), also spelled Maasai giraffe, and sometimes called the Kilimanjaro giraffe, is a species or subspecies of giraffe...
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  • Allah and on the belief that blacks were his chosen people. The traditional religion of the Maasai people from East Africa maintains that the Supreme God...
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  • Mbatian (category Maasai people)
    Mbatian (died 1890) was a Maasai laibon known for prophesies that he made and consequent victories by Maasai warriors that were attributed to him. Mbatian...
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    the Maasai people also due to intermarriage prior to colonization. The Gĩkũyũ people between Thika and Mbeere are closely related to the Kamba people who...
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    Nice Nailantei Leng'ete (category Maasai people)
    of the 100 most influential people in the world. Nice Nailantei Leng'ete was born in 1991 in the village of Kimana in Maasai country, Kenya. She was orphaned...
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  • in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India Maasai people, an ethnic group in East Africa Maasai language, language of the Maasai ethnic group Masai (name), Kenyan...
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    with the Maasai people and are literally separated by the Kenya-Uganda railway from Athi-River to Kibwezi. Up until late 20th Century the Maasai and the...
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    name "Serengeti" is an approximation of the word siringet used by the Maasai people for the area, which means "the place where the land runs on forever"...
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    "Serengeti" is often said to be derived from the word "seringit" in the Maasai language, Maa, meaning "endless plains".[dubious – discuss] However, this...
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    religion (Nuer people of South Sudan) Maasai religion (Maasai people of Kenya) Sidama mythology (Sidama people of Ethiopia) Waaqeffanna (Oromo people of Ethiopia...
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  • of circumcision was adopted by the Bamasaba from their in-laws the Maasai people. The men among the Bagisu tribe undergo initiation ceremonies known...
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    estimated third of the human population of Ethiopia and two-thirds of the Maasai people of Tanzania. The famine and the massive decrease in cattle population...
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    regions where the bird does not exist, as well as the United Nations. The Maasai people call it ol-enbai nabo, or "one arrow", referring to its crest feathers...
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  • prestige. The Maasai look down upon hunter-gatherer peoples, calling them Dorobo ('the ones without cattle'), and many Mukogodo consider the Maasai culture...
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  • groups: The Plain Nilotes speak Maa languages and include the Maasai, Samburu, and Turkana peoples The River Lake Nilotes include the Joluo (Kenyan Luo), who...
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    1927, no fewer than 1,272 lions were killed by park personnel. The Maasai people have traditionally viewed the killing of lions as a rite of passage...
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  • The Mara Triangle is the southwestern part of the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, and is managed by the not-for-profit organisation The Mara Conservancy...
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    the backdrop of Amboseli National Park in Kenya and included local Maasai people. The campaign sparked criticism on social media regarding perceived...
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    rift valley basin 92.8 km (57.7 mi) by road north west of Nairobi. The Maasai people were the first group to settle on the basin due to their quest for pasture...
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  • Olekina Ledama (category Maasai people)
    The University of Massachusetts in Boston in 2002. He is the founder of Maasai Education Discovery, an education center for girls. Olekina has been involved...
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    culture, the kikoi is mostly worn by the coastal men but now includes the Maasai people of Kenya as well as men from Tanzania and Zanzibar. It is most commonly...
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