thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 9月6日 08時02分

photo by @randyolson | words by @neilshea13 — Do you remember, Leiran Lekulo, those days of strength before your spine grew soft and your shoulders slumped, those enormous days when you, riding a palm log raft, felt certain of sailing forever? Those were fine days and not so far away. You tell me the lake made you ancient, broke and beached you. It took foreigners to figure the details—how the water, heavy with fluoride and salt and other minerals, was no good for human drinking and that your bones, after many years, had wilted. It was part of a larger and sadder story that told how the El Molo were once kings here, isolated, thriving, eating every creature that swam or crept through the water. But slowly other tribes moved in. They saw your people’s plenty and desired it. Began to fish and hunt. Over time many more arrived, carrying guns, and you became weakest among them. The sacred hippos were slaughtered and the crocodiles chased off and the grass beds, those rich nurseries, were cut or washed away. Then the El Molo had only fish and awful water. You remember. It stained your teeth brown, reddened your eyes, bent young bones into sickles. Cholera came. Your villages shrunk. The government, for years, was silent. Things have lately gotten a little better. There is a pipe now, delivering clean water. A new school, too, and a clinic, though it is mostly closed. All this too late for you, Leiran. You are the question and the answer haunting the beach at dusk. These days tourists come by truck to see Kenya’s smallest tribe and gauge its distance to extinction. What happened to the El Molo? they ask. And someone always points to you.
These Instagram pieces are part of our ongoing project, #NGwatershedstories, and they’re linked to our feature article on Kenya’s Lake Turkana in the August issue of @ナショナルジオグラフィック magazine. Join us @randyolson and @neilshea13 as we follow water down the desert.

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