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• [Tribes fact 1] 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, Tribessource

• [Tribes fact 2] 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, Tribessource

• [Tribes fact 3] An Indonesian tribe successfully uses the "Gandarusa" bush as a form of male birth control. Scientists say the plant prevents pregnancy by slowing down the activity of certain enzymes in the sperm that help them wriggle into a female’s ovum.

  Plants, Tribessource

• [Tribes fact 4] A region (Rio Omerê Indigenous Territory) in Brazil is home to the remnants of two native tribes, consisting of four and five people, respectively, who “speak mutually unintelligible languages, but are linked by marriage,” as well as “an unknown man who lives alone and is thought the be the last survivor of a different tribe.”

  Language, Places, Tribessource

• [Tribes fact 5] 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, Tribessource

• [Tribes fact 6] America recruited 29 Navajo-speaking men during World War 2, who later came to be called Navajo code talkers. They had created a brand new set of code words in the Navajo language, which even if intercepted could not be translated by the enemy forces.

  Military, Tribessource

• [Tribes fact 7] In 1971, the US military kicked out the inhabitants of Diego Garcia Atoll to build a military base. Some (not all) inhabitants received only $6000 of restitution 15 years later.

  Military, Tribessource

• [Tribes fact 8] The Ball Python is such a docile snake that if the Igbo people of Central Africa find a dead one, they will build a tiny coffin for it and give it a funeral.

  Animals, Death, Tribessource

• [Tribes fact 9] In the 1980s, a classical bassist named Christopher Roberts hiked into Papua New Guinea's jungles with his bass and tape recorder. By doing so, he preserved a tribe’s rich musical heritage and history, which were being lost because of mining and missionaries.

  People, Tribessource

• [Tribes fact 10] 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, Tribessource

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