Last Song of a Kalahari Bushman
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2012
- The San Bushmen have roamed the Kalahari Desert of Botswana for thousands of years. Now their culture is being threatened by development and relocation. Follow WSJ's professional wander, Jeff Bush as he travels with a Bushman shaman who is attempting to save his culture with music and dancing.
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As a Southern African (Zimbabwe), I have deep respect for the San and Khoisan. I wish our communities would have done more to preserve their culture.
There is a lot of the culture that has been transmitted to the Bantu-speaking peoples of Southern Africa. ChiShona has many San-origin words, for instance.
@@eb6552 They are right; it is theirs!
@@eb6552 What are you talking about? Me I am saying the San and Khoisan own this land. It is theirs.
@@eb6552 Got it. Got me a little confused! 🤝
Health care? They've been doing just fine on their own for thousands of years! Schools? They have taught their children for thousands of years by themselves. They are a peaceful and beautiful people who aren't hurting anyone so let them be!
SultanaBranWthBanana exactly now he wearing European clothes smh healthcare and education is a western system, they have their own systems that allow them to be who they are for billions of years, leave them how you saw them....
@@twinkitten1 I'm sure the man is capable of choosing what he wishes to wear, it's his life, let him do what he wishes to do....
They’re not polluting the environment or dropping bombs on people either
For real 😥😥😥😢😢
@@twinkitten1 Restrictions were enforced on them to limit the amount of animals they can hunt for the skins. Now, they have to wear western clothes.
This is where my father's family comes from. Beautiful.
Wow wow
Let these people live!!
"no legal claim" 'cause they've only been living in the Kalahari for 30.000 years.
these were the first people to breath the African air, the first people to walk the African soil, being told where they can, and can't go in those lands. no respect for the ANCESTOR. that African government should be ashamed of themselves. disgusting turds.
arron haggerty they got it from Europeans
europe is no nation. The powers that have been for the last 2000 yrs have destroyed nearly all european nations as well. As an example, the prohibition of basque and breton culture, the corsicans, the sardegnians, the laps, the welsh, etc etc.. USSR did the same in russia with the Karelians, the slavs, etc etc.. @@venusbaptiste8210
Ninth Heretic same thing they doing in Brazil they killing the native who live in forest
@I plead the 5th nobody wants to hear your ignorant stuff. You are a racist.
These people are so pretty!
We need these peoples culture preserved 🥺🙏🏾
That language sounds sooo unique with these clicking sounds
it sounded beautiful.
no words... bushmen is a peaceful and ancient tribe, they (the ones that are still living the old nomadic hunter gatherer ways) have such a fascinating life that should be protected at all cost.
The man having the dreams of dancing and singing to spread his culture. I think he accomplished that. I am here learning of his culture and will honor these people.
This is a pity - let them be. We can learn so much from them.
Interesting how many of these Bushmen from South Africa look very similiar to my people from South East Asia
Du Darris it’s because that’s who you come from Hamites from San People bushman
Du Darris Indeed. I’ve been studying bushmen features for some time and am sure there is a common factor genetically but it’s not PC. These people are naturally quite light skinned unlike the invading Bantu who massacred most of them.
Te’ Douglas not necessarily true at all. The out of Africa theory is only a theory and is based in a very small sample.
Every one originated from Africa an whites mixing
@@Demonte202 hamite theory is just a lie
Oh my goodness, they are such beautiful people. According to another documentary that I watched about them, one person claimed that the reason they were moved was because the area they lived at was rich in resources. It may have been diamond or some other precious mineral so they were moved under the guise that it was going to be for better health care and education. Unfortunately, many of them were put in reservation areas where they barely have anything. So, like the Native Americans, they succumbed to heavy alcoholism. To be fair, they were the first people. They do have legal claims on the lands but those who think they are "educated" feel the entitlement because they can make up sophisticated laws.
Wow, as I was watching this documentary. I as a Gadite descendant from the Tribe of Gad (Black Native Indians in America and Canada) related to them so much. Yes, we are actually Israelites. We were brought over here a loooong time ago by the Assyrians, who are the people of Nineveh. Chief Joseph had the Assyrian tablet passed down to him as evidence that we were brought into captivity. We actually belong in the land of Gad on the Eastside of the Jordan River! Shalom! 🕎💙🤍💜🕊
Thank you for your positive comment.
Tragic! This treatment has been done over and over again all over the world. Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, wherever there is an indigenous people whose culture doesn't fit into the dominant culture.
I am a person, whose father was Danish and my mother is a Greenlander. We come from The Cape Area of Greenland, so we call ourselves Kujataamiut (pronounced gooya daa-mee-oot). It means The Ones from the South End. We speak a sort of funny-sounding dialect (compared to "main Greenlandic".When Greenland was colonized by Denmark, we were told to start hunting for the colonists, if we wanted some of the new things, that they brought along. In most major towns, factory-style establishments were made, so that we should give up a certain amount of our catch to the Colony Administration. The main product was whale blubber and various hides from seals, polar bears, arctic foxes, narwhal tusks, and the likes. They also brought Christianity with them. Missionaries from Germany came up to us, and baptized us. But I still DO consider that a GOOD idea, since some of our pre-Christian customs rather barbaric. For example, it was common for a young man to STEAL himself a wife from a small settlement, if he found somebody, that he saw fit to his tastes. These young girls ( 14, 15, 16 years of age) were legitimately ABDUCTED. And of course, they had to accept their fate. When it was dark winter, and people came visiting from afar, (our people were nomads back then), custom said.. that the young, fertile women should lay down and get raped by the visiting men, so that the small settlement would not get inbred! The women never had a choice! EVEN though Christianity told women to be subordinate to their husband, it DID forbid the killing of barren women, the bride-stealing and that one man could have two wives. Women had more rights after Christianity came along.
But of course, MY people STILL suffers from the aftermath of colonization. We have a huge teen suicide rate, alcohol problems, child molestation, and domestic violence. We are trying to come afloat again as a people, but the road is long...
@@Ujuani68 Unfortunately a tough climate can create a tough people that may seem barbaric to outsiders, i heard your people also leave babies to die in the snow if there is a famine, understandable for the time before western civilization, but yes today that seems extremely cruel
White people came up with this and people dont want to confirm it
Us black Native Indians in America and Canada are actually Gadites descendant from the Tribe of Gad. We were brought over here by the Assyrians. The Aboriginal Australians are actually Reubenites descendant from the Tribe of Reuben. We are true Hebrew Israelites. We have been sent into captivity from our lands on the Eastside of the Jordan River. The reason you see us this way is because of *Deuteronomy 28*
"No legal claim" -- I mean what is that even about. They are infiltrated and then their land is taken away from them because they had not 'legally' claimed it as theirs. That sounds like stealing to me. To be anything but rebellious to that kind' of law seems like the real crime.
Translation: "Might is right."
@@ewqdsacxz765 that is plain odd, using a gun and calling you are mighty. even your body does not belong to you it's contructed from what you eat, it belongs to very soil you step on. And that cross Christians don means there is ruth on the wearer, otherwise its not truth(check the letters). Without understanding ruth to our own species how can we be ruthful to other species, what kind of mammal tries to kill it's own species on grand scales? (bugs do it like, termites, and ants, but hey they are civilized, communist robots with hive minds so...) Might is right though i agree, for our arrogance, i think this planet and this star will show us who is right and who is mightier, we might win against even stars, but few know the one that can not be beaten, that can not be exited. The real host. We are to find harmony or perish eventually at least this is how i see.
@@MunUtku The state is a tool of oppression. To the state, might will always be right.
2:18 freshest bushman in the land
At a loss for words! Still cannot believe a government can do this. If anybody deserves respect, it is the Kalahari Bushman.
Never trust a suit and tie to solve any problems !
we are now educated ...getting free education and health care am happy about the decision the government is taking look at me now happy living q better life ....
Beautiful people.
The language is beautiful.
Very moving, been in Botswana twice visiting the bushmen in Dkar (latest in the Kuru Dance Festival four weeks ago), telling everybody about this shame.
Their music😍
it's seems government is synonymous with repression and greed no matter where you are. ! I wish we could find a way to help them in exchange for their dancing/shaking medicine.
why want something in exhange? it is our communities, who stole their lands, mined it, we say that animal life is in danger there, but hey they didn't care for ivroy as much as we did. Who went there for Safaris, and killed these people's food reserve for fun?(and those animal are actually living beings, why kill for fun, when they are not even threatening your life)
He got his wish...look at us learning...God Bless my beautiful people
This is Brilliant . . . . Please share more Especially on their Music Performances.
Nt sleeping too well, I found this at about 4am this morning - 22 years after I had the opportunity to experience some of these great people and SEE how they survived. (Thanks to the edtor of The Field, Jonathan Young.) I saw them find that incredible bulb, below the sand, and drank the sweetest water I have ever tasted. And watched them eat - away from the journalists on the trip - because (shock:horror) they ate with their hands. And watched a naughty Kalahara Bushman playing with a BIG spider - and terrifying one of his friends with it - a guy who wuld cheerfully walk around after dark when it was very likely you'd meet a hippo - or a lion. Even got chased by a bull elephant (thank goodness for 4-wheel drive!)
And - around me in Shropshire - people are whinging about lack of freedom - and hate. They COULD learn from the Bushmen - but they would have to watch and listen!
My People, My Batswana, ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Why you isolated if they are your ppl.leave along to be Alice, gem gem
Great 👌 beautiful 👍 so blessed
Merci infiniment.
and to think a lot of people here in Botswana and South Africa undermine the Khoisan/Basarwa , calling them uneducated and uncivilized ... when they (Khoisan people ) are the true owners of the land.
I'm South African (xhosa)and I've never heard anyone say that.🙅🏾♀️
In South Africa we hv Khoisan in our country am talking about Northern Cape province and some parts of Western Cape then the rest of us we are Bantu n I never heard someone talking offensive words about amaKhoikhoi
Stop lying
Apart from coming to South Africa, !Gubi has also travelled to Australia, the UK, and Germany.
So sad they lived there for decades the old man got wisdom bless the Nama language and people
Love the Khoi sans❤❤
That old man is Wisdom...... I see him and think of king Solomon.
Patrick Guillory me too
His existence defies the existence of King Solomon, as his people are over 150,000 years old.
That's some key language right there
Its called the click language
Barbragv Xfgf I cant speak fluently but I can click 😂
@@barbragvxfgf9070 r u ok???
@@AlyxAesthetics not cool, go and dwell in the forest
These are the people that dared to venture out of Africa and into Asia. The oldest ppl and the ancestors of all Asians
Fact 💯
I'm sorry but my people has never migrated out of Africa.
@@Nervybear You are a dummy go learn genetics.
We need to go help them fight this war.
We need make peace with nature you mean. As long as we continue our unnatural way of living, bushmens and pacific islanders way of life is doomed.
Beautiful calture . 👍✋
Its so sad how the Bantu peoples made these bushmen a rare sight, however we cannot hold grudges against them for what their fore fathers have done.
Come to Northern Cape and North West if you are South African. Come and witness the Tswana and Sotho tribes then go to the San. Then do the same for the Xhosas and Zulus. The Khoisan and The bantus interacted for decades. Even marrying each other's tribes. Many of the black people you see today are literally an admixture of Bantus and the Khoi. But you are right. We have completely deleted them from SA history which is sad😢
The clicks in Nguni languages suggests there was deep integration between khoisan peoples and bantu peoples.
Botswana (bode-sawan) means Heaven's Temple I'm Thai and Lao. Bushman are Asians and Africans. Kho-San (Khoi+San). The San aka Shan people were present day Burmese, Thai, Lao people). Khoik-Khaen = KHONKAEN . . . They are my ancestors, I recognize this sound and my parents and grandparents are from Thailand and Laod.
San are 100% African they are not Asian
@@mandlenkosingcukayithobi3574 That's what you think.
@@SamanthaSweetAnne its a fact
@@mandlenkosingcukayithobi3574 where's your evidence? Where's your proof other than your opinion?
@@SamanthaSweetAnne I have San ancestry so I know my people so please stop reaching.
I completely agree with preserving the culture
Give us our indigenous magick once again, the one we have forgotten to live:--note; to all of us!)
So this is what civilization looks like, you either conform or perish
I've been researching the Khoi and San, it's really disheartening to see how persecuted, ignored and "brushed under the carpet" they are. These people are our greatest link to the beginnings of mankind, they should be revered and treated with profound respect. I've really struggled to find coherent public information on their cultures more intrinsic details, their mythology and social structures. Most websites are just copy and paste, or hidden behind university login requirements. I found one book by a German that catalogues their folklore but it costs a fortune. On the positive side, I live in the Karoo and have identified some Khoisan Elders who might be able to give me more information.
What hit me was that one's image of the Kalahari peoples are of them being nearly naked. Light cheerful peoples who are so rooted in communal ways of life and the land they live in. These people are wearing more layers than we do in Scotland. What happened? It is a visual, visceral difference. Weighed down in all those layers; no matter that the jacket is stupendous tweed.
It could be winter? Gets really cold this side
I noticed you mentioned you from Scotland. My great grandfather was Scottish. He never married my great grandmother. She was a Nama lady from Namaqualand, South Africa. All we know is that he was a soldier. My grandpa enlisted in the 2nd ww but was too young so just went as far as Egypt. I tried my best to locate information for my family tree but nothing. Ironically my great grandma already had a Scottish surname, Cameron so that didn't help either😅
Winter in the Kalahari is extremely cold and as the are "kept" in a small area there is not enough resources to get firewood or hunt animals for their skins, they thus have been forced to wear Western clothing as an alternative.
Sad indeed
I'm so upset that I'm at a lost for words. I need a word with my Ancestors on this. Ive felt a connection to the San every since I began researching African Culture & Spirituality, and Id really love to know if this is just the work of the GREAT DIVINE and his and her Divine Order or is this bc there is a Spiritual affliction amongst the San that they aren't aware of for whatever reason. Most times its simply bc they unknowingly have treated their enemies (Divinely hated individuals) with kindness, and in usual fashion, been stabbed in the back. They have let the "unclean thing" have its way, and only disaster and destruction can become of it.
let us criticize ourselves before these people. Pacific islands are sinking thanks to global warming
So very interesting, but so sad .
Often overlooked people
THE SAN PEOPLE!
Which they can leave those people alone so blessed
Cannot believe there land was stolen....... That’s not legal.
This happens regularly to ethnic minorities in Africa.
@@redpanda2861 Nonsense!
@@redpanda2861 happens even more in America. Look at what they did to the natives
We must make more noise for where ever our people's are....Botswana...Namibia...Angola...Tanzania...Zimbabwe...if the blood is calling....no one can stop it
Swanepoel you are delusional. This has nothing to do with you. No swanepoel is khoisan. You are Mad!
South Africa ini?
I love their movie "God's must be crazy"
If you see the map from south to north instead of north to south, you'll see the 3 pyramid shapes(damaged though), Africa, Sina and India. If change how you read: Gods must be crazy, Gods are written first, in the caste system, what lies beneath gods must be crazy, which translates as bushmen being gods and white men crazy. Bushmen are crazy too though, anyone including us, who make things are, including certain bugs and certain monkeys.
Please share of your music 🎼
And now, 10 years later, those poor people are worse off than it was when this documentary was made....
Africa, the Promised Land...
Africa, the Land of Promises.
Africa, promise on promise corrupt to the bone....
The Last of the First people.......
🇳🇦 🇧🇼 🇿🇦
😢😢😢
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SAN BUSHMAN SHAMAN SHAMWARI YA MWARI AMEN.
Sad
Leave them alone.. Those troubling them are going to pay
POWERFUL! DAPHNE COTTON 💜● BROWN ⚘FAMILY. WOW!
Shame on Botswana's government! 🔥🚩🔥
u want us to live in poverty???? ....i thank botswana Government for moving my people we are getting better service just like anyone...free education and health care ....
i'm so disappointed in my country yo.
its planned by the weatern powers
i feel so sad why people can be so greedy, leave indeginous people on their land
We are all indigenous in this country.
Why don’t the African government preserve these people culture??????????????
We are😡
African Govermentsssss you mean.
I’m young but I’m learning about the San and I see these comments like gosh
Because people think all Africans care about all Africans
If only we still had hunter-gatherers in Europe...
Heartbreaking
Uncle Junior likes this.
I actually respected the Botswana govt....until now.Long live the Khoisan and all Bushmen! If I could speak with clicks I'd join them!
The blood of my people are spilled across the borders of Botswana and South Africa and the British government has good knowledge of these brutal events today in Botswana.
Nobody whistling trough the wheatfield?
This is so sad! 😧😞
i could of sworn i just saw rapper Asap Rocky
their music sound like that of baka of central Africa or congo.
SHAMAN SAN BUSHMAN PEOPLE KHOISAN KOISA KOISHE SANA SAN KO YASHE AMEN.
when he speaks with popping nose you can hear wear the Asian language came from wow................. deep
They're not related to any Asian languages. These are part of the Khoe, Kx'a, and Tuu language families.
+Michelle Ludwig I said along time ago that white people were going try to turn the bush people into asian, like their trying to turn Ethiopians into Caucasians, when both people are indigenous African people, but from a different ethnic group.
I heard Turrani - Hun dialecte. North West/Gobi Asia?
They look like Madiba aka the late Nelson Mandela.🌹
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Checkout DNA results between a Cape Coloured and a Xhosa, and you'll see who's more prone to be a Khoisan descendent.
True! His tribe the Xhosas are the closest to the Khoisan!
Sibusiso Ndhlovu these don't prove anything look up your history
@@sibusisondhlovu6693 coloureds are not khoisans 🖕🖕at all. Coloureds are not claiming to be black. Then how come they can claim to be khoisans cause they black people.
@@lwazimorris4973 I believe colored are also black people.
These people are very attractive.
He's talking the Kalahari click language .. total cutie with little white stompers .
how they clicking with mounts, while they talks normal in the same time?
thats their language where kissing and clicking is incorporated into it
They have been living on the land for 1000 of years and now its not there land. We need a modern version of the hunter gathers way of life. Would also love to see that the language be restored as a First language.
How horrible that the government can rip someone away from where they’ve lived for thousands of years.
My heart is broken just watching our people suffer like this! For what reason, our people aren't supposed to be living like this all human being identify with the San people. The San people are what should be seen on every history channel. The greed of man has blinded people from protecting their identity. May Yahweh shine favour and light upon the San, may their heir fight for policies that will provide security and wealth.
Khoi-San
Wag1 for them in 2020?
they took everything and now complained that we demand more from the government. we never depended on someone before but now we have to live under laws that brought nothing but helplessness.
The Gods must be crazy!
Leave the bushmen alone
How could they? Let them live the way they wanted. Stop taking their lands!!
i wish i could speak this language
I've read that when Mahatma Ghandi was asked about western civilisation, he answered "it would be a good idea". That's funny and profound.
The UN pretending they have nothing to do with the annihilation of these people 😆
Explain how they do? It seems to me that this is all Botswana's fault.
@@Threezi04 who came with the borders
The UN, knows just like the British about the genocide in Botswana.
They will sing forever.
You won t. 😊
Give them freedom!
A peaceful nation ..
they dont need yall AINT NEEDED YALL TO STEP IN😡 Those devils come to destroy as always!
These are Khoisan
We are lackey people I mean we are unique people .
lol
all we have is our language and nothing more....
Why don't they extend health care closer to their land
XHOSA
Xhosa comes from their language
@@bluerose8255 //Hosa is the correct spelling...meaning dangerous san or bushman.
Bruh , xhosa is the language bantu people speak , not khoi san
This tribal is is very difficulty.