Let’s spend one more moment in Assam, a state in far eastern India, to wind up our week. “Ilelele,” the song the Sand Family in singing in this video, captured in our friend’s backyard in Massachusetts, is a work of the Adi, an Assamese minority people who live in an area known as the “Abor Hills.” These Tibetan-descended groups became known as “Abor” — an Assamese word for “independent” or even “barbarous” — because of their history of defying outside rule, especially in the late 19th century when they clashed with British colonial forces. Today these groups shun the Abor label by calling themselves the Adi.
We are revising the AllAroundThisWorld.com site — the information you’re seeking may still be here, but a lot of links are broken and details may be out of date. We are currently using a new (better!) site — ExploreEverywhere.com — to tell you all about our class offerings, our “pen pal” program and how to become one of our teachers, and will eventually be moving all the goodies from here over to there. So, GO TO THE NEW SITE!
