Near the mouth of the mighty Congo River, where the second-longest river in Africa pours its vast flood into the Atlantic, there arose one of the most famous kingdoms of

In the heart of the Congo, in the land between the great rivers Kasai and Sankuru where the forest meets the savanna, there flourished a kingdom so devoted to art

Along the rugged outer coast of Vancouver Island and the inlets of the mainland beyond, the Wakashan-speaking nations built a maritime world of towering cedar houses, ocean-going canoes and some

High on the roof of the world, in the Pamir mountains and the western Tian Shan of Xinjiang, where China meets Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, live the Kyrgyz, a Turkic

Among the pale, jagged peaks of the Dolomites in northern Italy live the Ladins, one of the small Alpine nations of Europe. A Romance-speaking people whose language descends from the

In the hills of the far southwest of Yunnan, near the borders where China meets Burma and Laos, live the Lahu, a mountain people once famed as hunters and trackers

Between the forests of the east and the waves of the Baltic Sea live the Latvians, a Baltic nation whose story reaches back to the ancient tribes of the region

In the pine-clad highlands where Honduras meets El Salvador lives one of Central America’s largest Indigenous peoples, and one of its most quietly remarkable. The Lenca have farmed these mountains

In the deep, forested gorges of the eastern Himalaya, where the Yarlung Tsangpo river bends and plunges toward the plains of the south, lives one of the very smallest of

On the great tropical island of Hainan, off the southern coast of China, live the Li, the earliest people of the island and its true natives. The largest minority of