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  • Bedouin spectators overlook camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • Bedouin spectators overlook camel parade grounds and judging pens.
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  • Two Ladin women dress in traditional clothing that is often worn on Sundays and for ceremonial occasions linked to the ancient customs. Ladins in the small village in the Dolomites divided from other ethnic relatives to the far reaches of the mountains further away from German influences. The people living here speak Italian and German, but Ladin in their first language.
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  • Dinka tribesmen and their cattle hide in acacia forests to escape attack by government forces. The Government of Sudan (GOS) dropped bombs nearby, wiping out an entire village and all of the livestock. Animals are a target because they are the last resource in times of famine.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Masai tribal people.
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  • Masai tribal people at Father Ned's church in Endulen.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara boys and girls dance at a celebration.
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  • A farm woman takes a break from baking biscuits and taps on a window to get the attention of her nephew. Ladin village of LaVal is small and the people speak their own ethnic language in this isolated region of the Dolomites. They also speak German and Italian.
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  • A Ladin family travels to church in LaVal on a horse-drawn sled. The brothers and sister keep to old traditions that include an ethnic language only spoken in the isolated village in the Dolomites. The Church of Santa Barbara is a 15th century Gothic building.
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  • Lined up at the start of a ski marathon, man competes dressed in a colorful feather headdress and costume depicting an native American Indian. The Engadine Valley event attracting over 16,000 skiers began in 1969.
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  • Mother teaches her daughter to cook traditional foods in their family's restaurant in the small Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Wearing a black hat, a sister waits while her brother unhooks a horse from a sled. Some Ladinos choose a simple life in LaVal the Dolomites, a village so isolated that the people there have their own language. In small villages, population continues to drop and older people go unmarried.
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  • Dancing and singing followed a totem raising ceremony. Tlinglet leaders dressed in colorful traditional clothing for a historic totem raising where seven totem poles were   placed in a Native Alaskan park in Klawock. Many of the 1000 Native Alaskans moved indoors to a gymnasium where festivities continued throughout the day.
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  • Family of Ole Surupe gathers clothing.
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  • Tents are set up, carpets laid on the sand and lavish food is shared.
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  • Tents are set up, carpets laid on the sand and lavish food is shared.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • The bride and groom put their heads together and share a private moment at their wedding party.  Weekends are full of celebrations complete with traditional food and dancing in the street. After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collected family members who carried food to the street blocked off for the party. <br />
Mexico's narrowest point is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec--flat, country where the Zapotec culture is still strong.  Women take leading role in business and government.  The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • After the church wedding, the bride and groom are escorted through the streets of town following musicians. They collected family members who carried food to the street blocked off for the party. <br />
Mexico's narrowest point is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec--flat, country where the Zapotec culture is still strong.  Women take leading role in business and government.  The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.
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  • Bride and groom light candles in prayer during their traditional wedding ceremony at the cathedral in Juchitán.<br />
After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collected family members who carried food to a street blocked off for the party.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • A Kara man painted and dressed for an evening dance carries a goat.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • A Zapotec Indian woman in traditional clothing serves food to wedding guests while others dance into the night. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. <br />
Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government. <br />
The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.  This party was complete with traditional food and dancing. After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • A Pygmy preacher at the Pentecost Church in Epulu.
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  • Masaai men celebrate the end of the weeks-long orpul ritual.
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  • A mother holds her children waiting as Pygmy tribespeople are treated at a health clinic.
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  • Masaai women trudge over the plains to watch orpul ritual festivities.
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  • Kara women dance as their sons prepare for a bull jumping initiation.
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  • A Kara man stirs with root that makes the water drop all of its silt.
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  • A Hamar woman prepares for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Masai milk ceremony. First step in warrior becoming a man.
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  • Masai milk ceremony. First step in warrior becoming a man.
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  • Masai milk ceremony. First step in warrior becoming a man.
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  • Masai milk ceremony. First step in warrior becoming a man.
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  • Endulen market with Masai tribespeople.
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  • Masai tribesman laughing.
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  • Maasai draw water from the same muddy pool their cattle use.
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  • Herders make fences out of thorn acacias to discourage predators.
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  • Masaai are paid by tourists to pose for photographs.
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  • Masai tribesman near Serengeti National Park with cell phone.
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  • Masai woman, carrying a baby, milks a Brahman cow.
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  • Masai tribespeople with Brahman cow in Oloiro village structure.
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  • Masai tribesman holding spear.
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  • Masai tribesman.
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  • A local indigenous girl inspects the nets while attending a salmon festival.
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  • Local indigenous folk dancers in colorful costumes at a festival.
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  • Hamar tribesmen prepare for a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A caucasian man photographs a bull jumping initiation ritual.
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  • Nyangatom women collect water.
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  • A young Hamar boy inside a temporary camp near Dus village.
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  • Svans compete to see who can pick up the biggest rock.
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  • Mbuti boys sit on a log in the Ituri forest and endure rites of manhood alongside their peers.
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  • A Pygmy church choir is led by a Bantu tribesman.<br />
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Pygmies have no land rights.  The colonizing Belgians assigned land rights to residing ethnic groups and this still holds. Because Pygmies are nomadic and had no chiefs, they did not receive land rights.  Pygmies are at the bottom of the social caste system—they have no power.  Strong ethnic groups still have strong land rights.
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  • On her 15th birthday, a Zapotec Indian girl in Juchitán attends communion at the Catholic church before her Quinceañera, which marks her passage from girlhood to womanhood. <br />
Dressed in her finest white dress and holding a bouquet of flowers, she kneels to light a candle.
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  • Pygmy boys dance wear leaves on their mouths for silence as they go through a manhood initiation called nKumbi.  They wear ceremonial skirts for their circumcision ceremonies, and when the ritual is completed, the skirts will hang in the trees at the entrance to their village in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<br />
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Pygmies are nomadic hunter-gatherers who rely on a healthy forest to survive. They have no claim to their own home territory, however, because the colonial Belgians assigned land rights only to sedentary groups
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  • A Pygmy choir sings and dances and is led by a Bantu tribesman at a Pentecost church in Epulu.
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  • Dressed in colorful traditional clothing, Tlingit tribe leaders celebrate after a ceremony involving six totem poles that were raised in a Native Alaskan local park.
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  • Refugee Pygmies wash near their leaf huts. They are under threat from logging companies and a rapidly changing world with little concern for indigenous people and their traditions.
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  • Bantu tribespeople living a more urban existence in permanently build homes decorated with more modern items and wear western-style clothing.
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  • Bantu tribespeople as a more sedentary group, dressing in western clothing when families go to worship at the Pentecost church in Epulu.
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  • Mbuti boys endure whippings during a puberty ritual ending the manhood ceremony.<br />
Women carry whips to meet the men halfway through the village, and a melee ensures where they beat each other. Women try to control the destiny the child but the men traditionally win, and each boy is paraded through the village for the scarification ritual.
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  • Soldiers help a Mayan mother and her baby in Chiapas where the Mexican army clashed with local Zapatista rebels demanding more assistance from the federal government.
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  • Mbuti Pygmy women dressed in clothing of traditional patterns and work together in the Ituri Forest.
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  • Zapotec Indian women wearing colorful, traditional clothing dance into the night at a wedding party in the streets of Juchitan, Mexico. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government in matrilineal traditions. The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s. After the church wedding, the couple walks through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • Masaai men celebrate the end of the weeks-long orpul ritual.
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  • Masai tribesman cooking meat over a smoking fire.
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  • Rival family members symbolically share meat at bull jumping ritual.
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  • A Kara woman debates whether to add a bra to her costume.
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  • Nyangatom children at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • A Huastec Indian woman arranges shoes to sell at the Ciudad Valles Sunday market in the mountain region of northern Mexico.
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  • A family parades their camels for all their neighbors to admire.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • Men gather in the shade of a tent to socialize at a camel competition.
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  • Nyangatom women dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Australian Aborigine man with body paint on legs watched by two women.
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  • Cepni women in traditional garb gather on a Turkish street.
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  • Students of the public school in Endulen.
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  • Mbuti boys wear grass skirts during their circumcision ceremony.
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  • Kara men prepare for a coming of age ceremony
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  • A Kara son prepares for bull jumping initiation into manhood.
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  • A Banna male becomes a man during a cattle jumping initiation ritual.
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  • A Pygmy woman hauls a piece of mahogony from the Ituri Forest.
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  • A Banna man whips a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • Women with young children walk through the unpaved streets of a gold mining town in northeastern Congo.
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  • Sandals are removed before entering tents.
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  • A Banna woman prepares to be whipped during an initiation ritual.
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  • A man prepares to whip a woman during an initiation ritual.
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  • Hamar women on market day in Turmi.
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  • At a camel competition, entrants sit around a campfire.
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  • On the edge of the PanAmerican highway, a Huastec Indian family plays soccer kicking the ball under a clothes line in the front courtyard. The family still follows the old ways in the mountains of Mexico, living in a thatched adobe house and surviving on farming.
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  • Maasai leaders gather to discuss the building of a village school.
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  • Masai tribesmen relax with beer in a bar.
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