Foragers reclaim their own names over "Dorobo"

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

  MRG profile describes the recent trend of hunter-gatherer communities readopting proper names after using pejorative labels.

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• Reviving Yaaku: Identity and Indigeneity in Northern Kenya whole source

  Carrier traces the Yaaku revival movement and reconstruction of a distinct ethnic identity.

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• Dorobo is not one tribe: Okiek, Yaaku, and Kenya's forest peoples step 13
• Kenya's hunter-gatherers: the forest and lake foragers step 27
• Tribalism as a colonial tool: how colonial rule hardened Kenya's divisions step 69

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