In the central highlands of Guatemala, within sight of the volcanoes that ring Lake Atitlán and close to the valley where the Spanish would build their first colonial capital, lives

In a land of lakes, forests, and gentle hills by the Baltic Sea, south and west of Gdańsk, live the Kashubians, the last surviving branch of the Pomeranian Slavs who

Along the storm-battered fjords and channels of western Patagonia, at the far southern edge of Chile, lived the Kawesqar, one of the great seafaring peoples of the Americas. For thousands

In the southeastern reaches of the Brazilian Amazon, where forest gives way to savanna along the great tributaries of the Xingu and Araguaia, lives a people whose name has become

Heirs of the Chola empire and one of the world’s oldest living languages, the Tamils made devotion to their tongue the very core of who they are.

The story of the Mari, the Finno-Ugric people of the Volga forests who are among the last in Europe to worship the old gods openly in their sacred groves.

Perched atop a sheer sandstone mesa in western New Mexico stands Acoma, often called Sky City, one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in North America. From this dramatic height

On the green and well-watered highlands that rise toward the snow-capped peak of Mount Kenya, in the very heart of the country that takes its name from that mountain, lives

In the marsh-laced high country where Oregon meets California, two closely related peoples, the Klamath and the Modoc, built one of the most distinctive ways of life in the American

High in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the Kogi chose isolation over conquest, preserving their language, dress, and spiritual leadership largely intact into the present day.