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Mythologies of the Hainanese Tribe

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Hainan tribe  ( Chinese :   海南人 ;  Hái-nâm nâng ), also called  Hainam people  or  Hainanese tribe , is a term referring to the residents of  Hainan , the southernmost and smallest Chinese  province . The term  Hainanese  can be used to refer to all residents of Hainan island, or it may refer to the  Min -speaking subgroup of  Han Chinese  native to Hainan alone.  Hainan Min  speakers often refer to their native language as Qiongwen or Qiongzhou to distinguish themselves from other groups of Hainan such as the  Cantonese ,  Tanka ,  Hlai ,  Miao , etc.  Like   Fujian   and Guangdong provinces, Hainan has been a source for emigration. Towards the turn of the 20th century, many Hainanese migrated to various   Southeast Asian   nations, where they worked as cooks, restaurateurs, coffee shop owners, clothes makers, sailors and hoteliers, filling niches left unoccupied by p...
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Mythologies of the Wana (Tau Taa–Wana) Tribe

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Wana tribe  or  Tau Taa–Wana  is an  ethnic group  of the numerous sub-tribes who speak variants from Taa dialect of  Pamona language  in  Central Sulawesi ,  Indonesia .  The Wana people are divided into two groups, they are the  Tau Taa , where  tau  means 'people' and  taa  means 'not', a group that lives in villages. Meanwhile,  To Wana  which means 'forest people' is a group that lives nomadically because of their social image as a society that lives in the forest.  The people are an  indigenous peoples  who live in small villages ( lipu ) around the Bulang and  Bongka River . Since the year 2000, the Wana people have implemented rotational farming as a means of maintaining themselves. Before this they lived as a  nomadic tribe .  The Wana people are currently under threat. This is mainly constituted over land trouble. Since 1994 incursions from the government of Indon...
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Mythologies of the Tolaki Tribes

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Kendari city inhabited by several ethnic groups, one of which is Tolaki tribes . This is an indigenous tribe in mainland Southeast Sulawesi island after the tribe Muna in Muna island and Buton tribe from the island of Buton. Around the 10th century, the mainland of Southeast Sulawesi had two great kingdoms of the royal Konawe (Konawe region) and the Kingdom Mekongga (Kolaka Region). In general, these two allied kingdom are the same and it known as tribes Tolaki. In the history of the Kingdom Konawe, which based in Unaaha, the government was implemented the device known as SIWOLE MBATOHU around the year 1602/1666, namely: In social interaction and community life, Tolaki tribes have some noble values, which is based on philosophy of life. Tolaki people have cultural philosophy in term of metaphor, as follows in: – O’sara Culture (Culture of obedient and loyal to the verdict with customary institutions) – Kohanu Culture (shame culture) – Merou Culture ( social manners understanding ) – “s...
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