Modern ethnicities Diaspora Performing arts Government agencies Television Radio Newspapers The Tugen are a sub tribe of the Kenyan Kalenjin people.
The Lembus and Torois later disowned that they are Tugen and won court case.
The bulk of the population originated from the west, from Sumo, which is located between Mount Elgon and Cherangany Hills.
The northern and eastern migrations came from Suguta (Lake Turkana) and Koilegen (Mount Kenya) and brought with them non-Kalenjin speaking people from northern Kenya and the highlands to the East of the Rift Valley, respectively.
Traditionally, like other Kalenjin people, the Tugen prayed to Asis ( symbolized by life giving force, the sun).
Legend has it that the members of this ipindo were wiped out by the Keiyo, in a skirmish near Cheploch gorge.