Orokaiva

The Orokaiva are a Papuan people of Oro Province in the Bird's Tail of New Guinea, their country lying around Popondetta between the Owen Stanley Range and the Hydrographers Range. Their speech belongs to the Binanderean branch of Trans–New Guinea, with Aeka and Hunjara as its northern and mountain varieties.

Orokaiva tradition divides the people into three groups, the Umo-ke or river people, the Eva-Embo or salt-water people and the Pereho of the inland, and the Orokaiva were known as fierce fighters in the local wars over land in the Bird's Tail.