They are a group of approximately 5,000 people living around the Ramapo Mountains of Bergen and Passaic counties in northern New Jersey and Rockland County in southern New York. Every tribe except for one, that is “Jackson Whites”. By this point, every tribe amid the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River had been added to the archive of accepted peoples. The Jackson Whitesĭuring the 1700s, European settlers captivated up their colonization of North America’s East Coast. The Surma lived in groups of a few hundred, and carried on with their humble cattle ranching for centuries while colonization, World Wars, and struggles for independence were going on all around them. Though they were well-known by Westerners for their giant lip plugs, they wanted nothing to do with any sort of government. Each tribe has its own share of weapons, making battles more violent. There are around twelve more, and all are surrounded by tension. The Suri is not the only tribe in the south of Ethiopia. Then some went south to settle at Boma while the remaining Suri traveled across the border and settled at Koma. First they came to the Akobo (eastwards from the Nile). According to Suri oral tradition, they came to their present territory near Mount Naita about 200 years ago from the banks of the Nile River. It includes the Nilo-Saharan-speaking Suri, Mursi and Me’en. Surma is a panethnicity residing in South Sudan and southwestern Ethiopia.
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