From Herder to Hosteler

Outside rows of double-storied brown wood houses, the elders are enjoying their tea while inside, the women are busy baking bread or making traditional handicrafts. Zhongnihao is one of the elders. These members of the Ewenki ethnic group, also known as “the last hunting tribe of China,” are living a different life from that which they left behind.

Zhongnihao, 79, is happy to have come down from the mountains in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the north, where they lived mostly by hunting. He remembers the freezing