| Clearly, for many Maasai, cultivation has played an increasingly important role in subsistence and nutrition. |
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| But few Maasai benefited from the early privatization, nor did they keep their animals from grazing on the private ranches. |
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| A number of Maasai and Samburu have taken jobs as park rangers and safari guides. |
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| The Maasai are speakers of the Maa language, which is also spoken by the Samburu and the Chamus living in central Kenya. |
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| This may be partly due to the fact that Maasai and Kikuyu speak different languages. |
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| The poorest schools in Kenya are found in the semiarid areas occupied by the nomadic communities like the Maasai, Samburu, Turkana, and Somali. |
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| It is a way not only to see animals but to meet the Maasai peoples and learn about the culture. |
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| This money could be used, for example, to train Maasai guides and teach them English language skills. |
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| The previous morning while we drove through a dust-ridden wallow, we had approached a Maasai Warrior walking barefoot through the grasslands. |
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| Most of the students, she said, spoke Maasai, their native language, as well as Swahili, the language that primary school is taught in. |
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| However, in 1880-81, when the British unintentionally introduced rinderpest, the Maasai lost 80 percent of their stock. |
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| The women's tribe, the Moroyok, raised antelopes, including the eland, which the Maasai claim to have been the first species of cattle. |
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| Major ethnic languages in Kenya include Kikuyu, Luo, Kiluyia, Kikamba, Samburu, Maasai, and others. |
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| I've helped a Maasai tribeswoman in Tanzania repair her leaking roof with mud and cow dung. |
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| However, given their economic circumstances, many Maasai may not have surpluses to sell. |
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| The traditional inhabitants of the region, the nomadic, cattle-herding Maasai, have lived alongside elephants for centuries. |
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| Official government tourist videos prominently feature Maasai customs and colorful beadwork. |
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| The bomas are constructed to look like typical Maasai homesteads. |
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| The two pointed triangles are a common feature of Maasai beadwork. |
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| If one asks a Kamba sculptor why he chooses to represent the Maasai and not someone from his own community, there is a short answer and a longer, more complex one. |
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| Following Kenyan independence in 1963, the Maasai faced competition for land with Kikuyu and Kamba farmers moving off the highlands as their populations increased. |
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| Glass beads on Maasai necklaces are strung onto thin commercial wire. |
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| By the 1950s, he says, some Maasai had begun to hire outsiders to grow and tend small plots for them, and some were contemplating taking up cultivation themselves. |
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| Approximately 300,000 to 400,000 Maasai live a seminomadic way of life as they follow the seasons in search of grass and water for their cattle herds. |
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| We would sing in the evening, if not dance, we cooked much Maasai food, we grazed cows and goats to make Maasai tea, and of course, we spoke Maasai. |
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| Classroom lessons are taught in English, not in the Maasai language. |
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| During the twentieth century, Samburu women started to adopt beaded necklaces, among them the flat necklaces of the Maasai, and gradually stopped making the mporro. |
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| It is the private property of your true hosts, the 7,000 Maasai who own the Kuku Group Ranch. |
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| They mounted a fly camp on a Maasai reservation, where he proposed marriage and life in the bush. |
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| The partnership between the Belpietros of Lombardi and the Maasai of the Kuku Group Ranch is nothing short of remarkable. |
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| To put this in context, in the nearby Maasai Mara, 5,000 guests share 600 square miles for game drives and tourism. |
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| Ed Norton gives a speech at a Crowdrise event to raise money for the Maasai Villagers Need a Truck fund. |
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| Ntaiya hopes to build a high school and then a university, so other young women can help their Maasai community. |
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| Maasai have complained that settlement in the drought-prone area by Kipsigis has harmed water catchment for the Ewaso Nyiro river, which the Maasai use to water their cattle. |
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| While at a Kenyan beach resort last month they decided to return to the Maasai Mara animal reserves to see animals such as giraffes, lions and elephants. |
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| Many languages, such as the Maasai language, distinguish between the possessable and the unpossessable. |
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| Pastoralism remains an important activity in the continent today, and exemplified by the Fulani, Maasai and the Tuaregs communities. |
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| Viewers will see Maasai children making kites at school, and safari animals such as elephants, hippos and wildebeests. |
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| Orpeko is vividly perceived by Maasai men and women as an outside force that has entered and disrupted their lives. |
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| Upon arrival, Maasai in traditional dress offer flutes of sparkling wine. |
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| Others, such as orpeko among the Maasai people of Tanzania, are relatively recent phenomena that originated with foreign contacts. |
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| Naiyomah is also a member of the Maasai, a seminomadic people who have lived for centuries in villages with no electricity or running water. |
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| While the Maasai people profit from tourism, guests also enjoy excellent wildlife viewing. |
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| This project will be implemented in Loliondo Division because of its importance as habitat for Maasai pastoralists. |
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| While the Maasai people prot from tourism, guests also enjoy excellent wildlife viewing. |
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| According to their religion, their central god, Enkai, gave all cows on earth to the Maasai. |
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| Samson, the head guide, is the son of the local Maasai chief. |
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| Six of the hybrid ram offspring were then bred to either Red Maasai or Dorper ewes to complete the backcross. |
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| The Maasai culture is well known to tourism, despite constituting a relatively small part of Kenya's population. |
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| Nilotic groups in Kenya include the Samburu, Luo, Turkana, Maasai. |
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| One study found they can use smell to distinguish between the Maasai, a group that hunts elephants, and the Kamba, who are primarily farmers and pose no threat. |
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| Teri Gabrielsen has been named as the first of six women to be honored for her significant contribution towards the advancement of health and human rights of Maasai girls. |
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