Oreet
Kinship group among the Kalenjin people of Kenya / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Oreet (pl. Ortinuek or Ortinweek) is a kinship group among the Kalenjin people of Kenya that is similar in concept to a clan. The members of an oreet were not necessarily related by blood as evidenced by the adoption of members of the Uasin Gishu Maasai by Arap Sutek, the only Nandi smith at the time. His proteges would later be adopted into almost every other clan as smiths.[1] More famously, the lineage of the Talai Orkoiik were adopted members of the Segelai Maasai.[2]