Maasai

American  

[mah-sahy, mah-sahy] / mɑˈsaɪ, ˈmɑ saɪ /

noun

PLURAL

Maasais,

PLURAL

Maasai

1. Masai.

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Example Sentences

NAROK, Kenya—Leaders of the Maasai ethnic group are seeking a court order to demolish a new Ritz-Carlton luxury safari camp they say blocks a key route of the famous Serengeti migration.

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Meitamei Olol Dapash, a Maasai elder with an American Ph.D., says the camp sits astride a path that some migratory wildebeest and zebra use to cross the Sand River in search of green grass.

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Dapash, director of the Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition, has sued Marriott International, which owns the Ritz-Carlton brand, and Kenyan authorities in a local court, a legal strategy backed by some other Maasai leaders.

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The Maasai, traditionally nomadic herders, have ancestral ties to the Maasai Mara, and the Narok County government manages the reserve on their behalf.

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In 2023, Kenya introduced a moratorium on new developments in the Maasai Mara game reserve in response to concerns that poorly regulated tourism development was stifling the migration and ecosystem.

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