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• [Tribes fact 1]  An Amazon tribe named Kayapo has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously stopped a dam. They even rejected money from dam-building companies saying “We have decided that we do not want a single penny of your dirty money... Our river does not have a price, our fish that we eat does not have a price, and the happiness of our grandchildren does not have a price.”

  Architecture, Tribes source

• [Tribes fact 2]  Grizzly bears were so feared and respected by Native Americans that hunting them required a company of 4 to 10 warriors and was done with the same preparation and ceremoniality as intertribal warfare.

  Animals, Tribes source

• [Tribes fact 3]  The Ket people are an isolated population of 1200 in Siberia. Their language is strikingly similar in structure to the Native North American languages, and they are one of the last true hunter and gatherer societies on Earth.

  Places, Tribes source

• [Tribes fact 4]  The Yao tribe in Africa uses the Greater Honeyguide bird to help them find bees. They have learned how to communicate with the birds, with a "Brrr-Hm" grunt, that the birds know to mean "let's go find honey"

  Animals, Food, Tribes source

• [Tribes fact 5]  The Canadian government forcibly relocated Inuit to the most northern parts of the country during the Cold War in order to assert its sovereignty in the area

  Countries, Places, Tribes, War source

• [Tribes fact 6]  There is a tribe of people in an almost inaccessible Himalayan valley that made a decision to bring their own race to extinction by choosing to not have children. If you broke the no breeding tribal rule, you would be banned from the village, which was, in essence, a death sentence.

  Places, Tribes source

• [Tribes fact 7]  People live inside the Grand Canyon. Supai Village, the capital of the Havasupai Indian Reservation, boasts a population of a couple of hundred residents, is considered the most remote community in the continental US, and is the only place where mail is delivered and carried out by mule.

  Places, Tribes source

• [Tribes fact 8]  In 1850, California law made it legal for towns to pay bounties for Indian Scalps. Shasta City offered $5 for every Indian head brought to city hall, expenses reimbursed by the state treasury. There were 150,000 Indians in California before the 49ers and by 1870 there were less than 30,000.

  Crime, Finance, Tribes source

• [Tribes fact 9]  "Sherpa" is an ethnic group and not a job title for those assisting people with climbing mountains.

  Places, Tribes source

• [Tribes fact 10]  In Nigeria's Yoruba culture, the second born twin is the elder twin. The first born twin (Taiwo) is kicked out of the womb by the second born twin (Kehinde) to 'test' the world. Kehinde knows it is safe once Taiwo starts crying.

  People, Tribes source

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