Faraway People Series
Indian Fishing Camp

A beach fishing camp teaches young Kenaitze Indians the old way of catching salmon.
The Kenaitze Indians are now like all other Americans: they shop in malls and surf the Net.  
And yet, not so long ago, their staple diet was the salmon they used to catch to satisfy their needs. But these days, strict quotas limit the number of fish they can catch.  And their children learn to fish in a special fishing camp set on the beach.

Faraway People Series
Ngoma Buntibe: Music of the Tonga

Ngoma buntibe, the music of the Tonga people of Zimbabwe.
Up to 1957, the Tonga minority of Zimbabwe, then Southern Rhodesia, lived happily on the banks of the Zambezi.
Farming and fishing provided them with everything they needed.
But the construction of a dam saw the Tongas’ ancestral land flooded by Africa’s largest artificial lake, Lake Kariba. Displaced to an inhospitable land 40 kilometres from the shore of the lake, the Tongas lost everything.
The only remnant of their culture is ngoma buntibe, their music.
The Tonga villages of the valley occasionally get together and play their ngomas (drums) and nyeles (painted antelope horns), challenging each other in a ritual musical joust.