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In Kenya, the semi-nomadic Maasai tribes near the border with Tanzania are also facing unreliable rains and floods.
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Governments have steadily pushed Africa's estimated 50 million semi-nomadic pastoralists from their traditional lands.
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Like, where does the ice for all these chilled drinks come from, and how are the semi-nomadic people transporting it on horseback?
i should have read your letters kenscholes 2009
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Hadn't the Gabrieleno Indians - a peaceful and semi-nomadic people who gave their name to this arid land - been swept away 150 years earlier by the Spanish land grantees, whose beautiful daughters were in turn assimilated through inter-marriage with WASPS from the Eastern Seaboard?
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The climate is harsh; water and pasture is scarce; for generations the Jei and other semi-nomadic clans, such as the Dodoth, have raided each other in constant low-level wars.
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Its people are the Jebali, hardy, semi-nomadic camel-herders whose mother tongue is not Arabic but an ancient South Arabian language related to that once spoken by the Queen of Sheba.
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Employing a familiar tactic, Khartoum has backed, trained and armed a semi-nomadic Arab tribe, the Misseriya, while denying all responsibility for its repeated attacks on Abyei's villages.
The Birth of a New Nation in Africa Mia Farrow 2011
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Does this semi-nomadic life help to keep your powers of observation fresh?
Printing: Part Two: Chatting with Uncommon Thinker and Best-Selling Author, Robert Fulghum 2010
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Malaysia The Bakun dam in Sarawak, due to be completed this year, has displaced 10,000 tribal people, including many semi-nomadic Penan tribespeople.
Hydroelectric dams pose threat to tribal peoples, report warns 2010
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Does this semi-nomadic life help to keep your powers of observation fresh?
Part Two: Chatting with Uncommon Thinker and Best-Selling Author, Robert Fulghum 2010
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