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Summer Pasture: All Seasons Define the Lives of Tibetan Noma

Tibetan nomad Locho explains that, while summer is welcome as a much-needed reprieve for herders, all seasons -- even the hard ones -- define who he and his fellow nomads are in this excerpt from the Independent Lens documentary, Summer Pasture.

Summer Pasture: All Seasons Define the Lives of Tibetan Noma

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