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"To match the firepower of armed cattle raiders, an Ariaal warrior carries a rifle supplied by the government. 'Without guns we'd be sitting ducks,' says Joseph Lekuton, an American-educated Ariaal tribesman. Dependent on cows for the milk and blood that nourish them, the 10,000 Ariaal around Mount Marsabit remain largely nomadic, resisting government pressure to settle."
—From "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine
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