Talk:Pokot

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Unsourced info from Suk tribe:

The word "Suk", as used to refer to the Pokot tribe, it was a result of English colonial visitors to the area now in northwest Kenya, who asked residents to tell them their name.

From caution, not wanting to give a stranger a personal name that might give them some power over them, each person asked would respond, "My name is Msuk", which, in Pokot means, "log" or "large felled tree".

The English, hearing this name again and again, applied it to all residents of the Pokot region.

— mark ✎ 08:51, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] changes

I have made a few changes in this stub. The Pokot are not Kalenjin. This is a mistake made by the British who did not know how to 'classify' people. They prefered putting them within a group which is in itself a fabrication, more than a real family of ethnic groups. The affirmation that pokot and nandi belong to the same ethnic background is acceptable only if one agrees that chinese and algerian people belong to the same family. --Beppevec (talk) 12:07, 15 March 2008 (UTC)