A thousand years ago, the two large communities of Ucholo and Geer dominated the northwestern half of the Laar, a land that was said to have gone through a lot before gaining independence. The two groups were pastoralists before the arrival of colonizers, spending much of their time tending animals and practising small-scale farming. The two sisters societies are thought to have shared a single ancestor and have much in common. This can be seen in their cultural identities, among other things. They only differ in terms of the languages they speak, despite the fact that many common expressions have the same sound and meaning. Polygamy marriage was practised in both groups, with a man having up to fifty wives depending on his ability to manage such a large family. They practise up to today initiation methodologies for both boys and girls. The boys' foreheads are marked, and they place some marks on the ladies' faces. These activities represented the beginning of the transition from childhood to adulthood. There are many more fascinating cultural customs that these two large communities share in common. Wife inheritance is one of these rituals, among many others. Their lifestyles are ideally similar to those of other traditional African societies. The two groups were split after colonisation, albeit they were still scattered within the same region. Geer travelled to the far west in quest of a greener pasture for their livestock, and Ucholo moved to the far west after the invaders took over their homeland. The two communities had maintained their original land for around a hundred years. Still, they only did so on a regular basis as they moved to the pasture fields, and it eventually came to a point where they lost the land entirely to the colonizers when the war broke out between them, the natives, and the invaders.
Ucholo was obliged to stay in the northern section, while Geer was forced to stay in the western part. The two communities never had a direct relationship with the colonizers' administration; instead, they had to rely on other communities from the East who had developed strong ties with the colonial administration and had taken over the administration when the country gained independence because the landowners were still in exile.