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Title: |Una Rooi hugging the Tree of Life
Subject: Tree of Life ; Rooi, |Una, San (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Khomani (African people)--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, San (African people)--Social life and customs, Khomani (African people)--Social life and customs, Trees--Botswana and South Africa--Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park--Religious aspects, San (African people)--Languages, Indigenous peoples--Land tenure--Africa, Southern, ,
Description: |Una Rooi hugging the Tree of Life. She was delivered under this tree in 1931 by her grandmother, |Uruke, a medicine woman. This is her first time coming back to the tree since being evicted from the park.|Una Rooi was instrumental in the data collection process for the Land Claim application. She was a fluent N|uu speaker and taught N|uu and San cultural history to children in Andriesvale, Northern Cape, South Africa, and was a member of Council of Elders. She was born in the Kalahari Gemsbok Park in 1931 and passed away in 2012.
Identifier: islandora:27141

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