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 * __Hutu-Rwanda__**
 * __Language-__** The Hutu people speak Baritu language. It's called Kinyarwanda in Rwanda but in Burundi it's Kirundi. The two versions of the Baritu language differ a little by pronunciation. Also many Rwandans and Burundians speak French since Europe use to control them at one time. They also have French first names. One more language is spoken in Rwanda and that's Swahili. Swahili is especially spoken along the Tanzanian border and in the cities. Rwandans and Burundians have long and meaningful names.
 * __Beliefs-__** Many people in Rwanda and Burundi are Christians. But they have kept some of their ancient beliefs. The ancient Hutu god named Imaana had many human qualities, but he is distant from the people. Also, the abazima which are the spirits of the ancestors. The abazima could become angry and bring bad luck to the living. So gifts were offered to the abazima for protection. To contact the abazima they would go to fortune-tellers.
 * __Values-__** When a baby is born, the mother and the baby must live in the house for seven days. On the seventh day they would hold a naming ceremony where other kids that live nearby come and food is served. To make a marriage legal the man's family must pay the bride wealth to the women's family. It's paid in cattle, goats, and beer. For the ceremony the bride is covered in herbs and milk for purity. When there is a death, no one in the family work in the fields, or have sexual relations during the mourning. When the mourning is over, the family holds a ritual feast. For the family life the women take care of the house and the crops. While the men and boys look after the livestock and clear the fields for planting. In the past, the families of the groom and bride decide all marriages. But now the people can choose who they want to marry.
 * __Behaviors-__** In the beginning, the Germans liked the Tutsi more than the Hutu. But in 1950 they started supporting the Hutu leader because the Tutsi wanted independence. In 1962, the Hutu leader in Rwanda overthrow the Tutsi King, and took power by force. The mwami tried to create peace between the two but the Hutu tried to gain power by force again. The Hutu intended to eliminate all Tutsi and Hutu political moderates, to ensure the political control and dominance of Rwanda. In April 1994, 800,000 to 1 million people were slaughter. So as you can see the Hutu’s behaviors were violent to the Tutsi’s. But now they are playing sports like igisoro. Igisoro is a game where beans are placed in holes in a wooden board and the players’ line up their pieces in rows and try to capture those of their opponent. Another main sport in Rwanda and Burundi is soccer. Some hobbies and crafts that they do are pottery, woodwork, jewelry, metal work, and basket weaving.
 * __The impact that the factors of cultural change are having on Hutu’s society__**- One factor of cultural change is having on Hutu’s society is the behavior. Since the Civil War the Hutu people are becoming move civilize with others. A Tutsi girl lost her baby in the genocide and got her hand cut off with a machete. The man with the machete was a Hutu. He later went up to the girl and apologies for what he did and asked for her forgiveness. By this it shows that the Hutu people did change because that guy had enough courage to go up to a girl that he tried to kill and apologies to her and asked for forgiveness when he didn’t have to. The Hutu people want to become more civilize to society and the first thing they have to do first is apologizing to the people they hurt.

In the first picture are Hutu women holding clay pots they made on their heads. In the pots is probably water or crops from the farm. In the second picture is a Hutu woman making clay pots. As you can see, Americans and Hutus make pots differently. The Hutu’s make them on the earth’s floor while Americans use a machine to help us create the pottery. The Hutu woman said she learned from her grandmother since she was seven years old.



In the first picture you can see two boys playing soccer on the streets. But in America you would hardly see that because we have soccer fields and are more civilize. The Rwanda and America cultures are different in so many ways. For example, in the second picture it’s shown a homemade soccer ball that kids made out of string and plastic. We Americans would never do that.


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This first picture is important because it shows the main sport of what the Hutu people play which is soccer. As you can tell the kids play on the street instead of grass like Americans do. The second picture is important because you can see how different the soccer ball can be. The Hutu people are poor so they make their own soccer balls with things they have. Also, these pictures are important because it shows the differences between the two cultures. This book is important because it gives me a historical perspective of the major war between Hutu and Tutsi. The book also gave pictures of the war which made it even more realistic to me by seeing what the Hutu people would do the Tutsi's. **__Journal Source:__** "After the genocide." //The Christian Century// 126.14 (2009): 8. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Web. 27 Jan. 2011. This journal is important because it shows that the Hutu people changed in time. This man didn’t have to apologies to the girl and he did. It shows that Hutu want to become more civilize to their society. **__Secondary Source:__** “__Hutu.__” __Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures.__ 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 25 Jan 2011.[|http://www.encyclopedia.com] This source was important because it gave me a lot of insight of the Hutu people. Also gave me a lot of culture and things the Hutu people like to do and how they live and the religion and language that they speak. "After the genocide." //The Christian Century// 126.14 (2009): 8. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Web. 27 Jan. 2011.
 * The first picture is important because you can tell how the pottery is used in Hutu by the women, and how they can carry it on their heads gracefully. The second picture is also important because you can see the differences in our cultures on how pottery is made. To her you should make pottery on the earth’s floor because of how she was brought up with that opinion. **
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 * __Print source:__** Bodnarchuk, Kari. __Rwanda: Country Torn Apart.__ Minneapolis: Lerner, 2000.