Leather jackets and silk cushions are sold next to rolls of block-printed fabric and beaded Maasai belts.
More than 90% of Loliondo's Maasai depend on rearing livestock on seasonal grasses there.
This is not the first time the Maasai have been forcibly moved from their land.
More than 60, 000 Tanzanian Maasai live in the 4000 sq. km. that make up Loliondo.
In one Loliondo village, Maasai gathered from all over the district to discuss the issue.
Loliondo's lush hills are where the Maasai take their cattle to graze during the dry season.
But a broad-minded Maasai businessman with a small restaurant took him in, off the open road.
Nairobi was on the Maasai plains, at the point where the plains joined the Kikuyu highlands.
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As the sun set, Maasai guards lit a path from our tent to a campfire surrounded by flickering lanterns.
With private conservancies starting to pop up all across Kenya, the Samburu, Maasai and other pastoralist communities are laughing again.
But seeing how well I am doing selling traditional Maasai jewelry and clothing he is starting to respect my choice.
The Maasai have a history of losing their land in Tanzania since the British moved them from the Serengeti in 1959.
The Maasai are a traditional herding people who have no electricity or running water and live in huts made of dung.
He showed them to his Maasai boss so that there would be no trouble when he left with tools in his bag.
The Maasai say each move eroded their livelihoods and way of life.
Maasai leaders say it means they will be evicted from their own land and will lose about 40 percent of their grazing land.
Maasai activists date their land conflicts with the current government to 1992, when they were first accused of illegal settling and ordered to move.
According to local lore, this colourful vantage point is the spot where Sambara watchman once stood guard to look for invading Maasai warriors approaching from the plains.
Or maybe it's simply that the Maasai don't yet have DirecTV.
For example, travellers can take part in Maasai village tours in Kenya, where nearly all of the tour fees once went to outside guides instead of the villagers.
Some people grow dreadlocks as part of their ethnic identity, cultural or religious beliefs such as Kenya's Maasai warriors who are instantly recognisable by their red-tinted locks.
Loliondo, Tanzania (CNN) -- Traditional Maasai living in one of the world's most famous wildlife centers are pitting themselves against the government in a fight for land.
The light bulb went on for me when I teamed up with thirty runners to race in the NY Marathon to benefit the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.
"We are just coming from a bad drought and the Maasai might associate the famine with this buffalo and kill it, " she told the AFP news agency.
They say it is to protect the wildlife -- which is also a major source of income from hunting and safaris -- from Maasai cattle overgrazing the land.
In response to the Maasai allegations, the Tanzanian government referred CNN to an earlier statement in which the minister for natural resources denied OBC were a factor in the decision to evict.
Mr Waititu has since apologised for his remarks made in reaction to the killing of a street child - allegedly by a Maasai security guard - for stealing a chicken in Nairobi's Kayole suburb.
Some 50 years later, the promise of that day still pulses through this country, on the bustling streets of Nairobi, from -- up to Mount Kenya, from the coastal shores of Mombasa to the plains of the Maasai Mara.
Researchers from the University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania proclaim with totemic authority that, in a 1985 survey, respondents from the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans and the Maasai of East Africa were almost equally satisfied and ranked relatively high in well-being.
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