Essay About The Lost Tribe

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Imagine a world where you can live off of the land, have unrestricted access to education, and where you don’t have to worry about wars and conflict. Sounds too perfect to be true, right? Well, a new discovery of a lost tribe has been recently revealed that they lived peaceful and harmonious lives based on the native language of the tribe. Anthropologist have been studying and focusing on the tribe’s language. They discovered that the tribe had a very family oriented lifestyle. Anthropologist also learned about the lost tribe spiritual beliefs, education, the way they lived, how they lived, and the geographical area where they settled.
Through the scientist’s research on the newly discovered lost tribe, I figured that the tribe is most likely …show more content…

According to anthropologist they have various words for grains, and wheat alone has 9 different words to describe it. With that evidence, it’s possible to conclude that the tribe had a bountiful of fields with different crops. The tribe can sustain itself with all the crops they farmed. They had animals as well since anthropologist figured out that the lost tribe had words for “Cow”, “Pig”, and “Sheep”. The tribe did lack the words for “Pork”, “Beef” and “Veil”, so we can assume that the tribe did not consume them so they only used them purely for farming or for clothing. Since they didn’t raise animal for food and grow several types of crops their life style is associated with animals. Using crops to feed the tribe and animals also using sheep to maintain the warms in …show more content…

Based on the language, researchers suggest that children translated as “Wise, small one”, “Little stargazer” Anthropologist also figured out that the word for praise could be translated as “Peacemaker” and “Conciliator”. It’s possible to assume the tribe population had expectation for the young ones to be educated to take part in the tribe. Also as the most population die as early years and they have several words for leader, all word are plural. Therefore, they tried to educate as young as possible so that all young children had the possibility of being a leader in the tribe. Along with education the lost tribe also cared for the arts in the tribe. In their language they had 4 words for theater, 9 words for artist and 20 words for book. One can only assume that the tribe really cared for their education and arts to continue on their culture for centuries to

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