The Maasai people are semi-nomadic and pastoral, they mainly inhabit in the northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The Maasais are specialized in their use of cattle in multiple areas including economic, religion, and social standard led historians to believe that before the Maasai became modernized, cattles were their sole dependence. There are over one million Maasai people right now and the language they speak are called "Maa"(2) They’re semi-nomadic and they move themselves and their livestock to the tune of a communal land management system based on seasonal rotation. 

Recent findings indicate that Maasai have multiple cluster assignments from the Nilo-Saharan and parts of the African Great Lakes region. (3)