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Indigenous Relocation of Semi-Nomadic Lifestyles Cause Ecological Disasters
Paypal) The Mentawai Future: Costs of Relocation For centuries, the natural lifestyle and animistic beliefs of the Mentawai have allowed them to dwell in perfect harmony ... environment. Clans split every time their numbers became too large and everyone lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle that never exploited the resources in any one area. Today, few traditional clans remain as ...
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The NORTH SASKATCHEWAN RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
East followed the fur trade west and adopted a buffalo-hunting, plains-dwelling lifestyle. The waterway became the artery along which this cultural phenomenon took place; its upper reaches ... members of the Blackfoot Confederacy - the Blackfoot, Blood and Peigan - at its western end. A nomadic lifestyle meant that territories often overlapped and shifted, but no shift was as great as the ...
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History of the Little Tennessee River
... that followed, native cultures succeeded one another in the region, gradually moving from a nomadic to a semi-nomadic lifestyle, then to a more settled way of life, practicing the ceramic arts and ...
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The Story of the Weeping Camel--National Geographic World Films--Photos, Maps
Mongolian steppe. The Gobi region is harsh—yet it supports wildlife and an enduring nomadic lifestyle. The shifting sands of the Gobi—one of the driest regions on Earth. Only hardy ... scarce and unpredictable, a climactic condition that helped to spawn both the steppes and the nomadic lifestyle they sustain. Much of Mongolia's rain falls from mid-July to September, and droughts ...
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The Story of the Weeping Camel--National Geographic World Films--Photos, Maps
Music has deep roots in Mongolia and often invokes nomadic or Buddhist themes. Gers, ... and canvas on a wooden frame, provide portable, comfortable shelter. Nomadic meals include meats and countless dairy products—both produced by ... heart is apparently a restless one, moved by an ancient nomadic lifestyle born on the nation's vast steppe. In most of ...
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Global Diversity Foundation
They are former nomadic foragers whose dependence on the Kalahari drylands ecosystem they inhabit has led to a ... during the twentieth century, has significantly impacted their ability to forage and maintain a nomadic lifestyle. The expanded pace of development and socioeconomic changes in rural areas, together with the ...
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Only The Poets Can Save Us Now
I came to see that, in addition to population and lifestyle, there was a third problem, the biggest problem, a purely irrational one -- a black magic ... every continent and climate, except Antarctica. All around the world, the successful stories of these nomadic people had a number of beliefs in common: They believed in formless ethereal great spirits ...
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A Vivid Lesson of the Human Place in Nature
However, their ennobled position would be undermined as their lifestyle drifted away from Nature. Eventually, the various groups of Huns were centralized under a ... people in history to conquer all of China. Their story, like all stories of the nomadic conquerors, reveals that something widespread had made the civilized world relatively easy to conquer. ...
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EIA Kids Page - Primer on Solid Waste
People have wrestled with the trash problem ever since they abandoned their nomadic ways. The Greek city-state of Athens opened the first municipal dump more than 2 ... than there were in 1960. But that doesn’t account for the whole increase. Our lifestyle has changed, too. People are buying more convenience items and more disposables, and they choose ...
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13 ALPINE RANGELAND ECOSYSTEMS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN THE QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU by Long Ruijun[15]
(Sichuan and Gansu) and northern (Qinghai) parts of the Plateau have changed from a migratory lifestyle to semi-sedentary or completely sedentary grazing practices. However, these changes are still a ... 23 (2), 149-161. Goldstein, M.C., Beall, C.M. & Cinotta, R. P. (1990). Traditional nomadic pastoralism and ecological conservation on Tibet's northern Plateau. National Geographic Research, 6 (2), ...
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