Herero in a sentence

All Nama and Herero cattle and land were confiscated from the very diminished population, with remaining Nama and Herero assuming a subordinate position.

Fullmetal Alchemist draws heavily from real-world history and analogs, and that includes the Herero Wars.

Southwest African colonial officials and military men took the view that the Herero were actually a form of baboon or other monkey, but not human.

Esther Utjiua Muinjangue (L), chairwoman of Namibia's Ovaherero Genocide Foundation and delegation members pose outside Berlin's Justice Ministry on the sidelines of the restitution of remains from Herero and Nama people after 1904-1908 massacres.

Perhaps a quarter million Herero live in Namibia today.

As cattle numbers increased, the Herero moved southward to central Namibia for grazing land.

Herero and Nama competed for guns and ammunition, providing cattle, ivory, and ostrich feathers.

Historians are examining the links and precedents between the Herero and Namaqua Genocide and the Holocaust of the 1940s.

In the 1830s Jonker Afrikaner concluded an agreement with the Nama chief Oaseb whereby the Oorlams would protect the central grasslands of Namibia from the Herero who were then pushing south.

In the beginning of the war the Herero, under the leadership of chief Samuel Maharero had the upper hand.

Namibia Herero and Nama territories By 1500 CE, most of southern Africa had established states.

The deceased ancestors of the Himba and Herero are subservient to him, acting as intermediaries.

The German forces guarded every water source and were given orders to shoot any adult male Herero on sight.

The German military governor Lotha von Trotha issued an explicit extermination order, and many Herero died of disease and abuse in detention camps after being taken from their land.

The Germans continued the policy of making Namibia a white settlement by seizing land and cattle, and even trying to export Herero labor to South Africa.

The harsh treatment of the Nama and Herero in what is now Namibia in Africa in 1906–07 led to charges of genocide against the Germans.

The Herero Chief's Council submitted a number of petitions to the UN in the 1950s calling for it to grant Namibia independence but was not successful.

The Herero entered into an alliance with the Germans, thinking they could get an upper hand on the Nama.

They exploited rivalry between the Nama and Herero.

This resulted in warfare between the Herero and the Oorlams as well as between the two of them and the Damara, who were the original inhabitants of the area.