To
learn more about the Maasai people, their land and their culture,
visit the following sites.
Web
sites
of Indigenous Maasai NGOs
Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition
MERC, the Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition, is
a network of grassroots Maasai organizations working
to preserve traditional Maasai culture and, as an expression
of that culture, to protect the unique land and wildlife
of Maasailand for future generations.
http://www.maasaierc.org/
Maasai Association: Conserving and Celebrating Maasai
Cultural Heritage
The Maasai Association is a not-for -profit 501-C (3)
organization founded by Kakuta ole Maimai, a young Maasai man
studying in Seattle. Its mission is to support the preservation
of Maasai traditions while helping communities build for their
future with education and community-based development.
http://www.maasai-infoline.org/
Maasai Education Discovery
The mission of Maasai Education Discovery (MED) is to
help the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania, especially women
and girls, as well as other marginalized peoples without access
to quality education achieve sustainable development and gain
greater access to educational opportunities, which are currently
denied them.
http://www.maasaieducationdiscovery.org/front.cfm
Maasai People and Maasai Life Sites
Maasai Music, Maasai Culture, Maasai
Photographs
American, Hans Johnson, and Kenyan, Simon Saitoti ole
Tumanka, are collaborating in an effort to preserve
the contemporary and traditional music of the Maasai
people in East Africa.
To that end they have designed this wonderful web site.
Listen to recorded clips of Maasai chants and songs.
View a photographic
gallery of Maasai life. Read a clear description of
traditional Maasai cultural practices. Explore their
links section for
additional informative sites.
http://laleyio.com/
Ereto
Maasai Women Group - Music
The Ereto Maasai Women Group working with two Dutchmen,
Jeroen Harderwijk and Jasja Zuidmeer, produced a CD
called ”Maigisa,
Songs of the Maasai”. This web site explains the mission
of the Ereto Maasai Women Group, describes the production
of the CD, provides the song lyrics from CD. The web
site also contains several short lucid sections on
various aspects
of
Maasai culture.
http://www.maasai-music.com/index.php
Jens Finke's Traditional
Music & Cultures of Kenya
A well-organized
site about the traditional music and cultures of Kenya produced by Jens Finke,
a Dutchman
who writes for the Lonely Planet guidebook series. It includes a comprehensive
discussion of Maasai culture. (click on ‘Tribes’ to
access)
http://www.bluegecko.org/kenya/
Other Sites of interest to our visitors
and our projects.
Maasai Language Project
Web site devoted to the Maa language
maintained by the department of Linguistics at the University
of Oregon.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~dlpayne/maasai/maasite.htm
Friends of Conservation
FOC was founded in 1982 to help prevent
wildlife and habitat degradation in the Masai Mara -
one of the most ecologically
important regions of the world. FOC’s fieldwork is currently
managed from three Community Conservation Centre areas
surrounding the Masai Mara National Reserve. Through
these centers, FOC
works to promote a balance between the needs of local
people and those of the wildlife with which they share
their habitat
and environment
http://www.foc-uk.com/default.asp
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