Maasai in a sentence

Ms. Masanja, who was dressed in Maasai women's costume and joined the Maasai traditional dance, was adamant about the need for cultural tourism.

During the BBI rally, the legislator claimed that the members of the Maasai community had been sidelined in positions of leadership and that non-locals had encroached the Maasai-dominated areas.

Nelson Ole Reiyia, founder of the Nashulai Maasai Conservancy, poses for a picture at the conservancy located near the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Narok county, Kenya on July 14, 2020.

There have always been tourists,” said Letolo, at the Nashulai Maasai Conservancy, a few kilometers from the Maasai Mara’s Sekenani gate.

Cultivation was first introduced to the Maasai by displaced WaArusha and WaMeru women who were married to Maasai men; subsequent generations practiced a mixed livelihood.

Due to an increase in Maasai population, loss of cattle populations to disease, and lack of available rangelands due to new park boundaries, the Maasai were forced to develop new ways of sustaining themselves.

Maasai women repairing a house in Masai Mara (1996) Over the years, many projects have begun to help Maasai tribal leaders find ways to preserve their traditions while also balancing the education needs of their children for the modern world.

Many ethnic groups that had already formed settlements in the region were forcibly displaced by the incoming Maasai, citation while other, mainly Southern Cushitic groups, were assimilated into Maasai society.

The outer areas known as Maasai Mara Conservation area is administered by the Group Ranch Trusts of the Maasai community who also have their own rangers for patrolling the park area.

The third most frequently observed paternal DNA marker in the Maasai was the E1b1a haplogroup (E-P1), which is very common in the Sub-Saharan region; it was found in 12% of the Maasai samples.

In June 2022, security forces and Maasai violently clashed in Loliondo during a land demarcation exercise, which restricts the people's access to grazing sites, water sources, and in some places cuts across their homes.

The Maasai of Africa drink the blood of their cattle to internalize the animal’s strength.

We stopped in a dry riverbed with stratified walls and shared our beef stew with five passing Maasai boys.

When Tanzania created Serengeti National Park in the mid-20th century, Maasai pastoralists living there were forced to relocate.

Among the Maasai and other pastoralists in Kenya and wider — like the Samburu, Somali and Borana — cattle are also a status symbol, a source of wealth and part of key cultural events like marriages as part of dowries.

Maasai are pictured with their cattle in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, March 13, 2022.

Maasai herders with their cattle: people living near Ruaha National Park accuse rangers of killings, sexual assault and livestock seizures as well as preventing farmers from accessing their land.

Maasai people live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania and are classed as pastoral nomads, or travelling animal herders.

Photos from the day show the pair loved up at the Lenana Mount Hotel, while other photos show them visiting the Maasai Mara National Reserve wildlife conservation park.

The Maasai Mara is home to all members of the Big Five.