26Tribal Lacrosse
The sport of lacrosse was originally a form of ceremonial combat played by Native American tribes with teams of 100-1,000 players, on a field several kilometers long, in games that lasted two to three days straight.
27. One of the reasons why Northern Cheyenne reservation traditionalists oppose coal mining on the reservation is that the 1700s Cheyenne mystic Sweet Medicine prophecized that mining the "black rock" would change the tribe forever.
28. The Taranaki Tribe of the South Island of New Zealand slaughtered almost all of the peaceful and non-violent Moriori of the Chatham Archipelago from 1835 to the early 1860s. Moriori were Pacifists, who when being wiped out by their neighboring Polynesian tribe, decided that their non-violent beliefs were more important than their own survival.
29. The Guugu Yimithirr is an Australian Aboriginal tribe, that doesn't use terms like "left" and "right". Instead, they use the geographical directions "north, east, south, and west". That means, that there can't be confused about your left or my left, since the directions are absolute for everyone.
30. The skin of the members of arctic tribes is dark because they get all their vitamin D from fish instead of sunlight. Their skin does not need to lighten to try and get more sun for vitamin D production.
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31Maroons
Maroons are enslaved Africans who quickly escaped in the countries they were brought to and often joined indigenous populations to form warrior tribes with their own complex language, war, and living cultures. Many Maroon warfare tactics have been co-opted into global army training today.
32. The Chang Tang region, which is spread over 1600 km (990 miles) in the Tibetan Plateau is home to the nomadic Changpa tribe, with almost half a million people. However, they are often difficult to find. One Swedish explorer reported not seeing a single person in 81 days while crossing Chang Tang.
33. In 1911, a lone man named Ishi emerged from the wilderness in California, the last member of his tribe and also "the last wild Indian". With the help of university professors, he was able to preserve parts of his language and culture.
34. During World War 2, Americans stationed in Papua New Guinea shared The Phantom comics with the Wahgi tribe. The character became an icon and is represented in tribal art.
35. Britain fought a war with the Ashanti tribe of West Africa because a British governor wanted to sit on a golden stool.
36Blackfeet Tribe
So many American Indians joined the military during World War 2 that had all Americans joined at the same proportion, conscription would not have been necessary. The Blackfeet tribe mocked the idea of a draft: "Since when has it been necessary for Blackfeet to draw lots to fight?"
37. Laboring women of the Huichol tribe in Mexico held onto a string that was tied to her husband's testicles. "With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden."
38. A pre-Spanish conquest tribe in Central America had a religion that included human sacrifice, especially of enemies captured in battle, and they also practiced ritual cannibalism. The Chorotega had books made of deerskin, where they recorded the most important aspects of their way of life.
39. Aztlán is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. Nahuatl legends relate that seven tribes lived in Chicomoztoc, or "the place of the seven caves". Each cave represented a different Nahua group, each of the seven groups is credited with founding a different major city-state in Central Mexico.
40. Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon spent 6 months studying an Amazon tribe of Yanomamo and creating their genealogy, only to find out that all the names for the villagers had been made up by the informants. The headman was “Long D*ng”, who had a wife “Hairy-C*nt” and a son named “As*hole”, etc.
