Sedentarization

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Sedentarization is the process where tribes are ceasing seasonal or nomadic lifestyle and settle down in all-year habitats.

This has been a process nomadic populations have been going through since the very first cultivation of land happened, up to today, when the organization of the modern society have imposed demands that have pushed aboriginal populations to adopt a fixed habitat.

There are many examples, that forced sedentarization having strongly detrimental effects on minority groups in developed countries. This is mainly caused by lack of sufficent integration into the greater society, old traditions oand identity withering and the broken travel cycle of the year, meaning that there may be lack of jobs and activity through significant parts of the year leaving the population reliant on government funded programs.

This can cause great social decline, and also weaken the ethnic identity of the population affected, as examples show of north american indigenous peoples inuits in the mid-20th century.

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