Maasai Life

It occurs to me that we've been constantly referring to the Maasai people or the Maasai language without properly touching on the people themselves. They are a very proud and independent tribal group across Eastern Africa which have retained their way of life despite the arrival of the 21th century right on their doorstep. They subsist almost entirely off of a diet of milk, meat and cow blood with many declining to eat even vegetables or chicken and seeing them as weak.
The Maasai have a largely nomadic lifestyle, erecting small settlements of cow dung, mud and branches as they move about every few months to reach new grounds for their cattle to graze. The rights of the Maasai are very well protected as well and they can cross the borders of the east African countries without passports or paperwork and graze their cattle wherever they please.
Its likely a combination of this good government treatment and their own fiery traditions that have helped the Maasai culture endure when so many other indigenous cultures have suffered or been sidelined by 'progress.' We heard several stories of people leaving the tribe to get university degrees and the like in Nairobi only to return to their tribe and take up their traditional roots. It was always interesting to see the contrast between their spears and cellphones.