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Nilotic people
The Nilotes or Nilotic people are indigenous to the Nile Valley. They have 25 subgroups and speak over 70 different languages that’s included in the Nilotic languages. They are the tallest, thinnest, darkest, group of people in Africa. The movie Avatar was based off of the Nilotes people. The Nilotes include all descendants of the original Nilo-Saharan speakers. Among these are the Luo, Sara, Maasai, Kalenjin, Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Ateker, and the Maa-speaking peoples, each of which is a cluster of several ethnic groups.
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Maria Oggay
107-year-old Whang-od Oggay, also known as Maria Oggay, is a tattoo artist from the village of Buscalan, Kalinga, Philippines. She is the oldest mambabatok (traditional Kalinga tattooist) and is part of the Butbut people of the larger Kalinga ethnic group. She is the Oldest person on the cover of Vogue. She was honored with The Presidential Medal of Merit and nominated for the National Living Treasures Award.
an old man with long white hair and beard standing in a field full of wildflowers