Oorlam people

The Oorlam or Orlam people (also known as Orlaam, Oorlammers, Oerlams, or Orlamse Hottentots) are a subtribe of the Nama people, largely assimilated after their migration from the Cape Colony (today, part of South Africa) to Namaqualand and Damaraland (now in Namibia).

Oorlam clans were originally formed from mixed-race descendants of indigenous Khoikhoi, Europeans and slaves from Mozambique, Madagascar, India, and Indonesia.

Similar to the other Afrikaans-speaking group at the time, the Trekboers, Oorlam originally populate the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, later living as semi-nomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.

Also like the Boers, they migrate inland from the Cape, and established several states in what are now South Africa and Namibia.

The Oorlam migration in South Africa also produces the related Griqua people.

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