Mutanen Pokot

Mutanen Pokot (wanda kuma ake kira Pökoot) suna zaune a gundumar Pokot ta Yamma da gundumar Baringo a Kenya da kuma gundumar Pokot na yankin gabashin Karamoja a Uganda. Suna kafa wani yanki na ƙabilar Kalenjin kuma suna magana da yaren Pökoot, wanda yayi kama da Marakwet, Nandi, Tuken da sauran membobin ƙungiyar harshen Kalenjin.

Tarihi

Ƙungiyar matan Pokot suna tafiya zuwa taro
Asalin
Asalin Pokot da aka kafa a cikin kwarin Kerio watakila a farkon ƙarshen 18th kuma tabbas bai wuce tsakiyar karni na 19 ba ]Beech M.W.H, The Suk - Their Language and Folklore. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1911, pp. 3–4 Ya fito ne daga hadewar zamanin Sirkwa Chok ta bangaren Pokotozek na Maliri.

Cigabansu
Bayanan farko na karni na 20 na Pokot sun gano rassa daban-daban na al'umma guda biyu tare da faɗakarwa cewa kamar yadda hanyoyin rayuwa guda biyu ke dalla-dalla, mutane ɗaya ne.Beech M.W.H, The Suk - Their Language and Folklore. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1911, pp. 4–15

Beech (1911) ya gano manyan bambance-bambance tsakanin sassan aikin gona da makiyaya na Pokot a; rantsuwa, hukuncin kisa da kisa, hukuncin cin zarafi, hukuncin maita, hukuncin sata da fashi, aure & saki, mafita idan bashi da bashi da mallakar filiBeech M.W.H, The Suk - Their Language and Folklore. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1911, pp. 28–36 Sai dai ya lura cewa “dole ne a tuna da cewa, ko da yake an rubuta su a nan a matsayin sassa biyu daban-daban, tudun da Suk na makiyaya sun kasance iri ɗaya ne”Beech M.W.H, The Suk - Their Language and Folklore. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1911, p.4

Ƙungiyar zamantakewa
Ko da a farkon matakan haɗa kai, babu wani sanannen bambance-bambance a cikin al'amuran zamantakewa, farawa ko mulki tsakanin ƙungiyoyin Pokot guda biyu. A fannin zamantakewa, an raba mazan Pokot zuwa rukuni uku; Karachna ko samari, Muren ko mazaje masu kaciya da Poi ko tsofaffi. Yaran maza da zarar an yi musu kaciya za su shiga tsarin shekaru.Beech M.W.H, The Suk - Their Language and Folklore. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1911, pp. 4–8

Dangantaka tsakanin kabilu
Kabilun Turkana, Samburu da Pokot sun shirya wa juna hare-haren shanu. Kungiyoyin biyu sun shafe lokuta da dama na yaki da zaman lafiyaJoshua Project, Kalenjin, Pokot in Kenya 

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