Nevertheless, access to education for rural and predominantly nomadic people in remote areas remains restricted.
To examine the plight of India's estimated 100m-odd DNTs and other nomadic people, the central government appointed a commission which reported back in 2008.
The Tuaregs have traditionally been a nomadic people roaming across the Sahara Desert but some took up arms, saying the Niger government is not doing enough to improve their lives.
However, the Kirgiz, and their neighbours in Kazakhstan, both formerly nomadic people, have always been less religious than the Uzbeks, who were more settled and practised a more conservative form of Islam.
Expect to meet the semi-nomadic Merak people, who hold deep animist beliefs and make their living herding sheep.
Today, sleds of visitors are pulled through birch forest in the same way that goods were transported from the summer to winter feeding grounds of the semi-nomadic Sami people.
Their new 12-day trek is not a cushy luxury trip, but rather a high-altitude hiking adventure and a cultural adventure, since guests spend their nights camping in tents or staying in the homes of local villagers, including the semi-nomadic Merak people, who hold deep animist beliefs and make their living herding sheep.
Until the droughts of the 1980s, most of its people were nomadic herdsmen.
With the sudden arrival of cooler, drier and less predictable seasons, early human attempts at agriculture in the Near East ceased, and people returned to nomadic hunting and gathering.
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Apart from the odd tourist lured by the wilderness, the only other people here are the nomadic Himba.
Wimme, a member of the nomadic Sami, or Lapp, people, has made an art form of their joik singing style.
Employees, now 20 people strong, live a nomadic life--hopping from, say, New York to Tel Aviv to Nicaragua every six months.
Even though the people of Mecca had left the nomadic life behind, they still regarded the Bedouin as the guardians of authentic Arab culture.
In February and March, some 100 people were killed in fighting between local farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen in the eastern Taraba state over the right of the Fulani to continue to drive their cattle through an area where an increasing number of people live.
The first people in this area of valleys and peaks were Innu, a nomadic indigenous nation, known to the europeans as the Montagnais.
Nomadic (badawah) life was a grim, relentless struggle, because there were too many people competing for too few resources.
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Tensions between semi-nomadic cattle herders and farmers in southeast Kenya sparked an attack on the herders Wednesday that left as many as 52 people dead, officials said.
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