Deported from St. Vincent by the British in 1797, the Garifuna rebuilt an Afro-Indigenous culture along four countries’ Caribbean coastline.

In the highlands of northern Guizhou, in the mountainous heart of the Chinese southwest, live the Gelao, one of the oldest peoples of the province and among the more scattered

On the coasts of the largest island on earth, at the edge of the Arctic ice, live the Greenlanders, who call themselves Kalaallit, an Inuit people whose homeland is counted

In Paraguay, an Indigenous language became a national one. This is the story of the Guarani, from forest villages and Jesuit missions to the present day.

From the mountains of the Hindu Kush to the bazaars of the frontier, the story of the Pashtuns: their language, their code of honor, their faith, food, and endurance across a divided homeland.

Tibetan migrants who settled the highest valleys on earth, the Sherpa built a Buddhist culture of yaks and monasteries and became the indispensable guides who carried climbers to the top of Everest.

Off the coast of Panama, the Guna govern nearly 400 islands under their own laws, a self-determination won through revolution in 1925 and still fiercely protected today.

Across the northern savanna of Nigeria and Niger rose one of Africa’s great urban civilizations: a chain of walled city-states, workshops and warehouses of the trans-Saharan trade, whose language became

One of the oldest continuous civilizations on earth. The story of the Persians, the Iranian language, the first world empire, Zoroaster, the glory of Persian poetry, the 1979 revolution, and a proud people facing a difficult present.

The Odia people of Odisha, their classical Indo-Aryan language, the Kalinga war that changed Ashoka, the temples of Konark and Puri, the cult of Jagannath, Odissi dance, and a heritage of resilience.