Submitted by Amy Sypher on the 2020 winter session program in Tanzania sponsored by the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology…
This week was spent camping in the Yaeda Valley with the Hadza Tribe. We learned about how they are some of the earliest peoples and they have maintained being nomadic foragers on their conserved land. Without the land, there would be no Hadza community. We had the opportunity to live, hunt, gather, and dance with the people in the tribe. I went with a small group early in the morning to hunt and look for tubers, and honeycombs. One of our guides who was nine years old knew exactly where to look for honey made by non-stinging bees.