Your Task: Read the article once to get the main idea. Then reread the article and highlight connections to Salva’s story. Answer the questions in the right hand column. Sudanese Tribes Confront Modern War”

By Karl Vick, Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, July 7, 1999; Page A1

EXCERPT 1:

1. They are the Dinka and the Nuer, the largest tribes in southern Sudan. Both greet the dawn by singing. Both live in square huts with round, uneven roofs. Both walk the roadless plain split by the White Nile. And both honor their scrawny, hump-backed cattle as the center of the temporal world, at once wealth on the hoof and a mystical link to the spiritual plane [level]. a. Reread paragraph 1 out loud. Highlight the word “both”. What does the word “both” refer to? Why does the author use the word “both” four times? Type your answer below.

The author uses the word both to compare the two tribes

b. In paragraph 1, what do you think the word temporal might mean? Type your answer below.

I think the word temporal means as in they are gonna die soon so all they have is temporal

c. In paragraph 2, reread the last sentence, and explain it in your own words.

2. The Nuer word for “thousand” means “lost in the forest,” because that’s where your cattle would be if you had that many of them. Almost no one does, however—in no small part because Dinka and Nuer have been stealing cattle from each other for as long as anyone can remember. Cattle raiding is a hoary [old, ancient] tradition of pastoralists [farmers] throughout East Africa, as natural here as a young man’s hungering for enough cows to pay the bride price for a wife, as normal as a neighbor striking at the intruders he sees hogging prime grazing land.

3. If people died in these raids, it was “maybe one, two or three,” said Madut. And the victims were almost always warriors, slain with the spears that were still the weapons of choice in southern Sudan in 1983, when the war against the Arab north entered its current phase. That year, the Khartoum government imposed [forced on others] Islamic law on the entire country, including the parts that were not Muslim, like the south, where people mostly adhere [stick to] to traditional beliefs or Christianity. Rebellious southerners formed the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, and young Dinka and Nuer began to carry AK-47s. d. In paragraph 3, what does the word phase mean? When did things begin to change? Type your answer below.