Monday, December 8, 2014

Nomadic Tribes in Staying Still in Settlements - Johan Reinhard

There are very few truly nomadic tribes left in the world. National Geographic Explorer in Residence Johan Reinhard lived with one such tribe 45 years ago when, as he explains, "I was lost and they found me." Reinhard explains that, as a species, humans have been nomadic for 99.9% of our existence, but today, because so many people have settled it's becoming increasingly difficult for those few nomad holdouts to remain that way. He went back to revisit the tribe 45 years after he first lived with them and noted that while the people have been forced into settlements, the landscape is thriving and is wilder than it was before.

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