5 Fascinating Facts About the Masai (Tribal) People. HD

Welcome to Animal lover ishu Channel ! - Have a nice time watching our content. - The content we build with the aggregation of various sources on Youtube, Blog, Website. It is difficult to guarantee all copyright protection, we always try to communicate with the owners rights to cooperate copyright even if there are still errors. We look forward to receiving your contribution mail: devprati2010@gmail.com Thanks! 00:00 intro 00:32 For Maasai, cows are wealth. 00:50 Lion-hunting is a traditional—but no longer practised—Maasai rite of passage. 01:46 It’s nearly impossible to beat Maasai in a jumping contest. 02:25 Maasai have long employed a “green” approach to land management. 03:04 Maasai dress is beautifully distinctive (and much copied). For Maasai, cows are wealth. Maasai culture is centred around the belief that God (called Engai, or Enkai, in the tribe’s Maa language) created cattle especially for them, and they are the custodians of all the world’s cattle. For Maasai, life revolves around amassing and grazing large herds of cows (and to a lesser extent, goats). As well as being the tribe’s primary income source (livestock are traded for other products or cash), cows also play an important role in Maasai communal life. Families and clans establish alliances through the exchange of cattle; and consuming the meat and milk of cows is considered a sacred act, one that binds them to their creator. Maasai have long employed a “green” approach to land management. For hundreds of years—and long before the official creation of game parks as a means to environmental conservation—the Maasai moved and grazed their herds throughout the Rift Valley without causing damage to the land or its resident wildlife. They did this mainly by migrating seasonally across large swaths of territory, leaving the land plenty of time to recover before cycling back to graze it again. Since their diet also traditionally relies on the milk, blood, and meat of their livestock, the tribe’s hunting of game was limited and non-disruptive to the larger ecosystem. Lion-hunting is a traditional—but no longer practised—Maasai rite of passage. In decades past, young Maasai men proved themselves as warriors (morani) with the ritual killing of a lion—either single-handedly or in a group, and using only their iron spears as weapons. (Typically, only male lions were hunted in this initiation rite, known as ala-mayo, since female lions were considered sacred progenitors of life.) Though ritual lion-hunting is now outlawed in East Africa, and Maasai will now only kill a lion if it is threatening their livestock, the fierce bravery of the morani is still revered today. Maasai dress is beautifully distinctive (and much copied). The Maasai are known for their physical beauty—not just their lithe, graceful physiques but for their unique garb and body ornamentation. The most iconic Maasai garment today is the shuka—a woven, thick cotton blanket, usually red with a striped or checked pa