Tsaatan Community

In far [northern:southern] Mongolia, the survival of the smallest ethnic [group:tribe] in the country depends on reindeer. An American [named:known] Morgan Keay visited the Tsaatan community when she was studying in Mongolia in 2002. Leaders told her that the animals were not [healthy:rich] and the number of reindeer was getting too small to [support:report] the community. When she left, the chief [gave:gifted] her his grandfather's smoking pipe. That way she would remember the Tsaatan and try to [help:support] them. The Tsaatan have about [five:nine] hundred members. About half are reindeer [herders:helpers] up in the Taiga mountains. The other half live in a [town:city] .