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The Mentawai ethnic group, the life gathered in the measuring wood house big that was named Uma, their livelihood same like traditional ethnic groups that lived by relying on nature, that is going hunting the poultry, the monkey, the wild boar and caught the fish as the requirement for their protein. Main food the Mentawai ethnic group was Sago, and the taro that often grew in right left the winding river that divided the South Siberut Island the community's Mentawai residence.

The Mentawai community could be divided into several categories. We began from, the tip of South Siberut, that was the small village that was occupied some ethnic in Indonesia, that was dominated ethnic Minang, afterwards Batak ethnic, Lampung and Jawa, most of them as the fisherman living, traded by opening the requirement shop for the fundamental requirement., the stall ate, and the house leasing and the boat repairs. This community developed and remained dozens of years in Mentawai far the day before Mentawai became the regency. That was the reason beside the Minang language, Mentawai language, the Indonesian unifying language also was on the end of Siberut. However increasingly we boating to the hinterland, Indonesian language were not increasingly known.