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Hello, Welcome back to my channel tamil trekker. Today,
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We are visting a tribe called tibet who live in mountains.
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We saw about karamojong tribe in the last video,
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We'll take a walk through the mountains and look at the tribe people.
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We'll see everything. There are a lot of people here. We'll see about their culture and practises.
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I am going with Kalthunga tours. He is with me on this trip.
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His name is Yema.
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We are going to visit the tribes.
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They are one of the tribes in Uganda. They are believed to be living on the plains.
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and for us they are Karamojongs and they are migrants in Uganda.
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We migrated from Ethiopia.
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We have seen about Karamojongs earlier. He is one of them. Now we'll go up the hills and see how it is.
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We are just taking a walk. They say it will take two hours to reach the top
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and 2 hours to return back. That's fine. We'll see what experience we are gonna get.
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This is where we are going to go.
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It is so windy here.
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I have come to their village. You can see a tree here.
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It is very significant to this place. If an old man is dying
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they tie him to this tree.
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In the olden days in our culture, they bury them it pots
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or burn them. Here they them onto this tree itseems.
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They just leave it like that. After the body decomposes and when only the skeleton remains,
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they remove it and keep it as a souvenir if they wish.
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If not they bury the skeleton under this tree.
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So, this tree is very important to these tribes.
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If anyone tries to cut these trees, it will become a great issue itseems.
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They consider it like a spirit. No one should cut it itseems.
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There are a lot of such trees here.
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No one should touch these trees.
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They believe that the spirit lives on these trees.
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That is their belief.
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See, they are playing something called "Palangkuzhi" here too
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Ask him whether he believes in Karma?
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He says No. Ask him whether he knows Edi Amin?
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He doesn't know.
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This is someone's house. These are bedrooms. Those are the houses of their brothers.
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There will be gaps between all the houses. It is because if someone comes
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and attack them at night, the other would know and wake up.
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That is why they have houses in distance.
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Just for safety and protection.
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That is the reason.
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They don't eat rice here, they consume sogum, the powdered version of ragi.
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They make it thick and wrap in green leaves
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and eat them. If you had seen my assam video
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you would know about the barter system. It is still prevalent here.
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The tribes use barter system with other tribes.
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They give goat or cow in exchange of other things.
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They don't use money here. They use it very rarely only when they visit shops.
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Every happens through commodity exchange.
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It happens daily here.
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In Assam, it happens only in a year but here the lifestyle is such.
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these are completely hills, these people live and build their houses in the hills.
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They live in the hills only. That is why we have come here to see them.
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There is a village.
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we'll go and then by the side we'll go down from there.
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They see themselves in the colour and get surprised.
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This what they eat here. Green leaves. It's a kind of greens.
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In the northest of Uganda,
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in a place called moroto, among the higest of hills
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live a tribe called thibet. Like in the last video, as we saw about Karamojong,
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they have similar lifestyle. As we went by evening,
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some were making food, some chatting and all.
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They eat corn, ragi and other greens that are available on the mountains.
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They also do agriculture. The children and woman do the most work here.
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Be it agriculture, cooking, building homes, fetching water
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and everything is done by woman here. Men graze the cows
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The most strange thing is that they don't have mirror in any of their houses.
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They don't even use mobile phones. They haven't even looked at their face before.
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When I went with the camera, they saw their own faces and got very surprised.
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One of the man asked me whether it is him?
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I was so amazed by that. Whenever it rains heavy here,
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to prevent landslide, they have built their houses on the elevated areas.
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I couldn't see more as time wasn't enough. So I went to another place where these tribes live the next day.
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Only then I realised more about their way of life.
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Following that I saw their native dance, their hunting routine
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This is the door of the house and they enter like this.
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Can you not close it?
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This is how they get in here.
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They use the cow skin as the door.
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They close it just like that. That is all.
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See how difficult it is for them to come out of the house.
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This is the way they are living.
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Do elders sleep outside everyday? Sometimes.
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During day time they sleep outside.
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I saw a old man sleeping out so I asked the woman she told me they sleep out most of the time.
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I asked her what they'll do on rainy days?
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She told me they'll go in when rainy but most of the time they tend to sleep out itseems.
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This house is the tallest here. It is for young people to climb and get it.
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For old people, they live in less higher houses.
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You can see one there.
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Highest houses are for young people here.
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This one is for old people.
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This one for younger people.
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They are renovating you can see.
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This one is different.
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We are about to see their cultural dance now.
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Time is around 4.30 now.
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They have started dancing. We'll see it and leave from here.
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Everyday morning and evening, they perform this dance.
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We came right on time to see this.
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If she wears more bangles, no man can commit adultery with her. She is a respected woman.
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I have asked him to target the tree, we'll see.
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Let me try.
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It just fell here.
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Tell me what you like and learnt in this video
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in the comment section.
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about the lifestyle they lead in Africa. I am also in facebook, you can tag me there too.
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I am bhuvani from Tanjore now in Africa.
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I will see you in the next video, Bye, Peace.
