African Bushmen Research Paper

The African Bushmen people believe that people did not always live on the surface of the Earth. The believed that at one point in time people and animals lived underneath the Earth with Kaang, the Lord of Life. They would call themselves “the People” in their own language. They lived in Southern Africa and experts say there is evidence that they are one of the oldest peoples in the world. Archeologists have history about these people for up to 20,000 years. They were named by tribes, as San and, was named Bushmen by European settlers. Bushmen speak from a variety of Khoisan languages which include unique clicks. Bushmen people now live around the Kalahari Desert, and less than 100,000 still exist.
Bushmen people believe in one creator, Kaang. They believed that when the world was first created, that people and animals were all one and had a mutual understanding.

This caused them to be evicted from their land, there was murders and they faced discrimination. There numbers reduced from a sever million to 100,000. The Bushmen people became the slaves of cattle owning Bantu people. Today there are around 25 different groups of Bushmen people. They are having a hard time maintaining their traditional culture and lifestyle. The government banned hunting and gathering, and also destroyed their water supplies. Hunger and thirst forced the Bushmen to move into fixed camps. Also, the land that the people used to hunt on is being fenced and used for farming.
The African Bushmen myth showed that one should always obey the laws of their creator. The Bushmen people disobeyed Kaang’s warning not to use fire and so their use of fire ended up scaring off the animals and breaking the communication they had with the animals. The Bushmen people were friendly, creative, and peaceful people, who never developed any weapons of