Travelling Jindas

"A Jinda's life is fun and games, because work and play are just the same!"

- Bondo

"The Jindas are famous for their habit of getting totally lost. Once they've left a place, they will never return again."

- Logray

The Jindas were a tribe of Ewoks who wandered the Forest Moon of Endor. They wore colorful clothing and played many different musical instruments. A distinguishing trait of the tribe's members was that, unlike many other Ewoks, the Jindas kept a large amount of their fur trimmed or shaved very short. The Jindas lived as traders, moving from settlement to settlement. They often got lost, which turns out to be actually deliberate. Chituhr was their animal trainer, and Bondo was their leader.

The Jinda tribe had originally made its living as peaceful farmers who worked for the Rock Wizard. They eventually were accused by their lord for attempting to poison him, causing him great pain, and were cast out of his lands, forced into a life as wandering entertainers. To keep them from settling down, the Rock Wizard inflicted the Jindas with a curse that whenever the tribe stays in one area too long, every large rock begins to float to chase the tribe away.

After several years as nomads, the Jindas visited Bright Tree Village and perform for them. Impressed with their calling, the Ewok Latara stows away to join their company, but when a party of her friends follow her to convince her to return, the tribe obliges them and help convince her to go home Later, the Jinda's rescue a group of young Ewoks captured by Skandits. Unfortunately, when they take the Ewoks home to Bright Tree Village, the curse was invoked and the villagers found themselves obliged to shelter the Jindas.

After learning of the Jindas' story Logray and Teebo tried to remove the Rock Wizard's curse and free the wanderers. The Rock Wizard, angered at this interference, arrived to confront the Ewoks, but relented when he realized that by an amazing coincidence, Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka was wearing his lost tooth as a pendent. When he requested it, he replaced it in his mouth and realized that loss was the true cause of his pain and the Jindas were innocent all along.

As a result, the wizard called off the curse and invited the Jindas to return to his lands.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Galaxies
 * Star Wars: Galaxies
 * Star Wars: Galaxies