The "adumu" ("jumping dance") is a Maasai warrior rite of passage. Warriors who jump highest can be considered as future chiefs.

Already there is lore about the Maasai dance troupe, and three days still remain before the performers wrap up their 35-day Washington area tour.

SAN DIEGO -- In their songs, the Maasai tribesmen of East Africa have long celebrated the killing of lions as a test of their manhood. But now the Maasai that live in the Mbirikani Group Ranch in ...

Joyce Seita Pulei, 24, a member of the Maasai dance troupe Osotua Le Keekonyokie, performs Saturday at the Fall Folk Festival at Spokane Community College. (Dan Pelle) By Chelsea Bannach chelseab ...

Children will be able to learn warrior skills such as fire-making; spear-throwing; bow-and-arrow practice, Maasai jumping (a Maasai dance called adamu), singing and stone-throwing.

The five traditionally clad warriors will perform two dances at 2pm and 2.30pm. The Maasai dance, or ‘Adumu’ is roughly translated as the ‘Jumping Dance’.

The Maasai dance tradition of Kenya The Maasai people of Kenya maintain a cultural heritage embodying strength, grace and community cohesion.

If a project backed by the United Nations (UN) takes off, the Maasai will join other indigenous communities that have recorded and copyrighted their native music and oral histories.