Ngisir

The Ngisir are a section of the Turkana, whose herds move through the dry country west of Lake Turkana. Clan ties connect people across this landscape: a traveller settling in another area could seek the help of relatives there. Livestock bear marks associated with their owners' clans, and elders and seers have a say in access to grazing. Turkana traditions recall a separation from the neighbouring Jie and movement into the Loima country. Accounts place the arrival of the Ngimonia, the larger grouping that includes the Ngisir, in the eighteenth century. Turkana society also uses alternating generation sets, known as Ngirisae and Ngimor, whose elders meet to deliberate together.

The later city of Lodwar lies here.