Pastoral nomads in migration | SLICE

[Music] [Music] how could we send our children to school in those conditions so all of my seven children became

herders like me there's no future in this life we're always short of money that's why i want to go find work in the city get a salary

[Music] foreign foreign these days we're free to move where we like but it's not so simple

if there's not enough grass in one place we'll have to move to another county then we have to pay attacks it's become really hard with all these taxes it's also difficult for the kids to be

in boarding schools far from their parents instead of shuffling the children back and forth why don't they have a nomadic school did you round

as did our ancestors for millennia the government is pushing us to become farmers and shopkeepers but they don't really understand our ways

my life will become meaningless we're not made to live in towns moving with the seasons is our way of life we follow them as they migrate

[Music] our animals graze here and raise their newborn there are over 300 lakes in the valley

like us the swans return here every year to lay eggs and hatch their yarn [Music] [Music]

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inside and outside this tent i was born in county i entered school in 1957.

then i worked in the negdel a collective farming my first wife stole my money so i send her back to her parents so i started looking around

i remember how we got married i kidnapped her we escaped along this very trail about 40 years ago you were cute and chubby just like you

are now he was 28 and i just turned 20. we fell

in love so we eloped in the night they're wolves around here

[Laughter] [Music] it's that red wolf again [Music]

wolves attack our herd when they have nothing left to eat we've hunted out the forests and fished the rivers this wolves can go into a killing frenzy and

wipe out an entire herd they've already killed 30 sheep and 20 goats wolves are always hungry after a hard winter they can follow us for hundreds of

kilometers that's what we're up against out here [Music] the fall of communism i bought a hundred sheep from the state farm

[Applause] today my herd has grown to almost six hundred means to retire like a prince among shepherds uh

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