The Hai//om are a linguistic peculiarity. They speak Khoekhoe, the language of the herders, but they are hunter-gatherers. Rather like the Naro, they have both Khoekhoe and Kx’a ‘blood’ and a few Khoekhoe customs, and this explains both their origins and their peculiarities. The Hai//om are now well known, thanks to ethnographers Thomas Widlok and Ute Diekmann. This chapter will focus on their work, but it will also deal with its implications, for example, in the management of Etosha National Park and in dealings between Hai//om and their northern neighbours the Ovambo. The area is politically important now, thanks to the wish of the Namibian government to see who ‘owns’ Etosha, the government or the Hai//om.