The colonial state turns "Dorobo" into a tribe

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• From True Dorobo to Mukogodo Maasai: Contested Ethnicity in Kenya whole source

  Cronk describes British colonialists treating Mukogodo as true Dorobo while Maa speakers treated them as low-status il-torrobo.

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• World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Kenya: Hunter-gatherers whole source

  MRG profile describes colonial and postcolonial lumping of hunter-gatherers into larger tribes or outsider categories.

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Appears in 4 stories

• Dorobo is not one tribe: Okiek, Yaaku, and Kenya's forest peoples step 6
• Genetics and colonialism: ancestry, race-making, and the myth of pure tribes step 16
• Kenya's hunter-gatherers: the forest and lake foragers step 14
• Tribalism as a colonial tool: how colonial rule hardened Kenya's divisions step 30

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