Monday, March 10, 2014


Almost real history

In the middle of nowhere between three countries is situated the Kalahari desert, enormous extension of inhospitable land. Everybody thinks that the only thing that you can find there is sand. However, this is the land of Bushmen. They are a small group of people that migrate all around the desert looking for water, meat and vegetables. They are an incredible people who don't need anything to live. Just the minimum to eat and nothing to wear. Each person of the group has a different paper in it. The men normally go to hunt, and the women look for vegetables and fruits in the sand. The women mantein the group together and take care of the children and older. They don't have houses just sleep outside. If they are lucky can find a small mountain and sleep in a cove.

When men go to hunt, it is really exited. We think in a hunt with cars, guns and noise. Nothing further, they have to go walking or running with bare feel. Days before the hunting they have prepared a poison for the arrows. This poison is very potent because the arrows are very small and the animals that they hunt are bigger than a horse. When they find the animal that they need to eat, observe than it must be an old  male or female to respect the cycle of life. So they don't hunt young females and never a breeding. Only one of the men can shoot the bow. The animal is poisoned but need some hours, sometimes a day to die. The men follow the animal sometimes running because they have to defend their food from another predators. When the animal is dead, they say thank you and explain the animal why they are killed him. It is not a pray, it is an act of  respect.

One day of the hunters, some days before the travel hunt, had a dream. He dreamt that one good talk to him and advised him about one problem in the village. The good told him about the food will be missing of the land and about new people, estrange people arriving from outside the desert. This people would stole their land would kill all animals, so they would have to go to another place to live.

Unfortunately it real happened, and this small people lost their land and their traditions just because they don't know what "white law" means.

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