The Hadzabe Tribe

The Hadzabe are one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer tribes in the world, with just 1,200-1,300 believed to live in Tanzania today. Rather than keeping livestock and tending the land, they spend their days hunting and foraging for food, maintaining a simple diet that’s changed little throughout the centuries. They inhabit caves and establish simple dwellings around Lake Eyasi, just to the south of the Serengeti National Park, and they are the only people allowed to hunt inside the borders of the Serengeti.

Episode Transcript

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They are from the second largest andsecond most populous continent. Seven point sixteen
trillion dollars in measurable wealth, onebillion people, over three thousand tribes,
fifty four sovereign states, one people. This is dear story. These are

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the tribes of Africa. They hadZabi tribe. They had Zabi or Hadza,

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one of the last Romanian hunter gatherertribes in the world, with just
to one thousand, two hundred toone thousand, three hundred believed they leave
in Tanzania today. Rather than keepinglivestock and ten in the land, they
spend their day's hunting and for ragingfor food, maintaining a simple diet that's
changed little throughout the centuries. Theyinhabit caves and established simple dwellings around Lake

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Yassi, just to the south ofthe Serengetti National Path, and they are
the only people allowed to hunt insidethe Bothers after Seengetti as ascendants of Tanzania's
aboriginal pre Bantu expansion hunter Gadre population. They have probably occupied their current territory
for thousands of years, which relativelyleads to modification to their basic way of

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life. Until the past hundred years, gender roles are clearly defined in Hadzabe
culture, with men hunting together tobring home meat for protein as well as
saucing wild honey. They are skillfulhunters, stealthily tracking your prey and sometimes
during it through the use of animalbody parts such as hunts. Women,
on the other hands, spend yourtime in gathering roots, berries, and

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fruits while looking after the tribe's children. One of the most fascinating aspects of
the Hadzabe tribes a unique language whichis unrelated on the tribal languages of the
region. It uses clicking sounds ina similar way to the bushmen of the
Kalahari Desert, and although the Auntsrelated through DNA, they also share similarities

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in this small and thin stature.They have in numerous attempts to civilize the
Hadza since the colonial era, attemptswhich have proven foothip. The Hadza people
leave like their ancestors did and donot observe days, hours and months encroachment
by neighboring groups. Safari hunting,and there is an emerginous tract to the
hatter uniquay of life. I believeI came down