Found mainly in Southern Kenya, the Maasai believed that their rain God Ngai granted all cattle to them for safe keeping when the earth and sky split. Since cattle was given to the Maasai, they believe its okay to steal from other tribes. The Maasai worship cattle because it is their main source of economic survival as opposed to education.

Many Maasai believed that education is not important for the herdsman to search for green grass to feed the cows. The Maasai have not strayed from the traditional basic ways of life. Farming for the trading of crops such as corn and vegetable is done by some Maasai. But the rejecting the cash economy and refusing to settle or become farmers has made life difficult and harsh.

The Maasai prefer to remain nomadic herdsmen, moving as their needs necessitate. This is becoming more difficult in modern times as their open plain disappear. In the drier regions of the north, the Maasai subsists on a diet of cow's blood and milk, which they mix together and drink.

The village life remains simple and the community lives in huts made from cow dung.  young men of the Maasai village serve as warriors and offer a welcome dance to visitors.  Part of that welcome dance includes jumping.  It is believed that the higher one can jump, the stronger the warrior is and makes him desirable as a mate.  We were also treated to welcome songs by the Maasai village women.