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Here, the pygmy tribe known as Batwa perform a dance about gorillas accompanied by expressive singing and drumming.
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Here, the pygmy tribe known as Batwa perform a dance about gorillas accompanied by expressive singing and drumming.
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It's a community of about 1,600 people up in -- Gitega is the name of the area, what Burundians would call "up-country," and there is about 60,000 Pygmies, mostly of one tribe called the Batwa, or the Twa people, and they have been largely ignored.
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Ed and Miriam Noyes: Literacy: quest for dignity among the Batwa
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Ed and Miriam Noyes: Literacy: quest for dignity among the Batwa
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Ed and Miriam Noyes: Literacy: quest for dignity among the Batwa
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There was virtually no human population except for some Batwa pygmy hunters when the park was created, but a population explosion occurred in the late 1950s.
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Fossey learned to make peace with the inhabitants of the forest and even delivered a Batwa baby at her annual Christmas bash for the Africans in 1984.
Georgianne Nienaber: Did Margaret Atwood's "Saint Dian Fossey" Predict Current Atrocities in Congo? 2009
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The forest skills of the Batwa indigenes qualify them well to become guides and to monitor and control wildlife, but as they are illiterate, they are not employed as rangers by UWA.
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In her final days, Fossey developed solidarity with indigenous populations of Batwa, Hutu and Tutsi, calling them the "backbone of Karisoke."
Georgianne Nienaber: Could a Hillary Clinton Avatar Save Congo? 2009
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