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Originally, the Oraons relied on the forest and its goods for an economic livelihood. Unlike many other communities of Jharkhand which practice jhum , the Kurukh community uses plough agriculture. At the turn of the 20th century however, due to the policies of the British colonial government , most of the tribe worked as agricultural labourers ...
An Indian surname of the above people. Dinesh Oraon, politician; Kartik Oraon, politician; Lalit Oraon, politician; Laloo Oraon, politician; Manoj Kumar Oraon ...
This article is about the name for the traditional territory (the land) itself, rather than the name of the nation/tribe/people. The distinction between nation and land is like the French people versus the land of France, the Māori people versus the land of Aotearoa, or the Saami people versus the land of Sápmi (Saamiland).
Some people who try to live in Orania leave due to the limited choice of available jobs or the requirement to conform to local social norms. [43] According to a 2004 study, 250 people had left Orania since its establishment in 1991, most of them due to "physical and social pressure". [ 219 ]
The populations grouped as "Negrito", such as the Andamanese (from the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean), the Semang and Batek peoples (from Malaysia), the Maniq people (from Thailand), the Aeta people, the Ati people, and certain other ethnic groups in the Philippines, the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and a number of dark-skinned tribal ...
The Wyandot people (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Waⁿdát, or Huron) [2] are an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of the present-day United States and Canada. Their Wyandot language belongs to the Iroquoian language family. In Canada, the Huron-Wendat Nation has two First Nations reserves at Wendake, Quebec. [3]
For this reason, the League of the Iroquois historically met at the Iroquois government's capital at Onondaga, as the traditional chiefs do today. In the United States, the home of the Onondaga Nation is the Onondaga Reservation. Onondaga people also live near Brantford, Ontario on Six Nations territory. This reserve used to be Haudenosaunee ...
The word Waorani (plural of Wao 'person') means 'humans' or 'men' in Wao.Before the mid 20th century, it included only those kin associated with the speaker. Others in the ethnic group were called Waodoni, while outsiders were and are known by the derogatory term Cowodi.