Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1973 Page: 22 of 24
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TRIBE From
game as it moved through Ug-
anda, the Sudan and Kenya But
they were stopped from hunting
ami their nomadic cycle was
destroyed when boundaries
were drawn between the three
countries and the area in which
they had moved was made into
a game preserve
Locked into a small corner of
land with not enough game or
fruit to feed them all. the lk
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tried agriculture but there was
not enough rain to grow more
than meager crops.
So. in the space of some 50
years or less, the lk became as
they are now.
Turnbull, a tall, relaxed man
who speaks quietly, says, "We
can only guess at what the Ik
used to be like 1 talked to some
of the older people and gathered
that they must have been lov-
ing, humorous, uncomplicated
and with strong family ties
And now it's the reverse of all
those."
He tells of being kind to an
old woman "and she suddenly
cried She was crying, she said,
because all of a sudden we had
reminded her that there had
been a time when people had
helped each other, when people
had been kind and good."
Turnbull. a professor of an-
thropology at Hofstra Universi-
ty when he isn t doing field
work in Africa or India, says,
the Ik are as they are because
it's the only way they can be —
a survival mechanism
"When there's not enough
food to go around it's good
biology to keep the breeding
group alive and let the old and
the children die The old they
reason, are going to die anyway
while some of the children will
alwavs survive even when they
have to make their own way
after thev become 3
■ When the normal system is
one of starvation, you can't af-
ford to he generous when there
isn't enough food. The survival
of the tribe depends on each
person getting and consuming
his own food. In this way the
most healthy and most useful
survive while the unhealthy and
useless die off It's alien to us.
but it is logical
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l'AGli 22
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1973, newspaper, January 25, 1973; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194391/m1/22/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.