Tanzania - Hadzabe Tribe

We had the opportunity to spend some quality time with the Hadzabe tribe of Tanzania. We went hunting with them, shared a Marijuana joint (Most male above the age of 5 smoke Marijuana in the afternoons), was privy to their dance and music routines and learnt a bit of archery from them. 

Based mainly in Baray, an administrative ward within Karatu District in southwest Arusha Region, the Hadza, also known as Hadzabe (Wahadzabe in Swahili), are a protected hunter-gatherer Tanzanian indigenous ethnic group. They are found on the surrounding Serengeti Plateau as well as the Lake Eyasi basin in the central Rift Valley. They most likely occupied their current location for thousands of years, with relatively little change to their basic way of life until the previous century, as descendants of Tanzania's aboriginal, pre-Bantu expansion hunter-gatherer population.They are thought to speak an isolated language and have no known close genetic relatives. 

Hadza society is egalitarian and non-hierarchical, with members typically living in bands or "camps" of twenty to thirty. Traditionally, their main source of nutrition has been foraging; they eat predominantly fruit, honey, tubers, and meat during the dry season. In Tanzania, there were between 1,200 and 1,300 Hadza people as of 2015. Approximately one-third of the Hadza population still relies solely on traditional foraging for their survival.

The Hadza language (Hadzane), once categorized as one of the Khoisan languages mainly because it had clicks, is now considered an isolate, distinct from all other languages. Hadzane is a language spoken only orally.