The forced internment of the Northern Frontier District's inhabitants also resulted in an economic bifurcation of its other minority residents. Those with means diversified into trade and sedentary farming. Those without became wage labourers, while the poorest were reduced to dependence on outside relief aid. The anthropologist John Baxter returned to the village in Isiolo District, which he had researched in 1953, and had this to say about the few non-Somali minority tribes that lived at the time alongside the Somali majority: