Designations "Bushmen" and "San people" are both exonyms in origin, but San people had been widely adopted as an endonym by the late 1990s.
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26 Facts About San people
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The term San people is standard in South African, and used officially in the blazon of the national coat-of-arms.
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The "South African San people Council" representing San people communities in South Africa was established as part of WIMSA in 2001.
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The San are referred to as Batwa by Xhosa people and as Baroa by Sotho people.
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Hunter-gatherer San people are among the oldest cultures on Earth, and are thought to be descended from the first inhabitants of what is Botswana and South Africa.
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San people were traditionally semi-nomadic, moving seasonally within certain defined areas based on the availability of resources such as water, game animals, and edible plants.
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One broad study of African genetic diversity completed in 2009 found that San people were among the five populations with the highest measured levels of genetic diversity among the 121 distinct African populations sampled.
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Certain San people groups are one of 14 known extant "ancestral population clusters"; that is, "groups of populations with common genetic ancestry, who share ethnicity and similarities in both their culture and the properties of their languages".
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San people kinship is similar to Eskimo kinship, which uses the same set of terms as in European cultures, but adds a name rule and an age rule for determining what terms to use.
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The San people made decisions among themselves by consensus, with women treated as relative equals in decision making.
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San people economy was a gift economy, based on giving each other gifts regularly rather than on trading or purchasing goods and services.
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Historical evidence shows that certain San people communities have always lived in the desert regions of the Kalahari; however, eventually nearly all other San people communities in southern Africa were forced into this region.
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The Kalahari San people remained in poverty where their richer neighbours denied them rights to the land.
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Various Y chromosome studies show that the San people carry some of the most divergent human Y-chromosome haplogroups.
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Mitochondrial DNA studies provide evidence that the San people carry high frequencies of the earliest haplogroup branches in the human mitochondrial DNA tree.
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The San have been particularly affected by encroachment by majority peoples and non-indigenous farmers onto their traditional land.
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Hoodia gordonii, used by the San people, was patented by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in 1998, for its presumed appetite suppressing quality.
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The San people have yet to profit from this agreement, as P57 has still not yet been legally developed and marketed.
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In 1992 by John Perrot and team published the book "Bush for the Bushman" – a "desperate plea" on behalf of the aboriginal San people addressing the international community and calling on the governments throughout Southern Africa to respect and reconstitute the ancestral land-rights of all San people.
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Documentary on San people hunting entitled, The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story, directed by Damon and Craig Foster.
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Spencer Wells's 2003 book The Journey of Man—in connection with National Geographic's Genographic Project—discusses a genetic analysis of the San people and asserts their genetic markers were the first ones to split from those of the ancestors of the bulk of other Homo sapiens sapiens.
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San people's title comes from the San's belief that a solar eclipse occurs when a crocodile eats the sun.
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In Wilbur Smith's novel The Burning Shore, the San people are portrayed through two major characters, O'wa and H'ani; Smith describes the San's struggles, history, and beliefs in great detail.
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Tad Williams's epic Otherland series of novels features a South African San people named !Xabbu, whom Williams confesses to be highly fictionalised, and not necessarily an accurate representation.
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One of the main characters, a small San people boy named !Koga, uses traditional methods to help the character Max Gordon travel across Namibia.
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