An ancient people of the northwestern Caucasus, driven from their homeland in a nineteenth-century catastrophe and scattered across the world. The story of the Circassians, the Adyghe code, the expulsion of 1864, and a nation that lives on in exile.

No Native American nation in the United States tells a prouder story of undefeated resistance than the Seminole. Formed in the eighteenth century from Creek migrants, earlier Florida peoples, and

The story of the Karelians, a Baltic-Finnic people of the northwestern Russian forests and lakes: their language close to Finnish, their Orthodox faith, the great song tradition that gave rise to the Kalevala, and the wooden wonders of the Russian north.

The Inuit built a remarkable way of life across the Arctic, from Alaska to Greenland, and today govern their own territory in Nunavut while facing the fastest warming climate on Earth.

The Mapuche held off the Inca and outlasted three centuries of war with Spain, and nearly two million of their descendants still live in Chile and Argentina today.

The Lakota built a horse-and-buffalo civilization across the northern Plains, survived conquest and Wounded Knee, and remain a living nation defending the Black Hills today.

Nepali-speaking and Hindu, the Lhotshampa farmed southern Bhutan for generations before exile scattered them across the world, a community defined by memory, endurance, and a lost homeland.

In the steep eastern forests of Bhutan live the Sharchop, perhaps the kingdom’s oldest people, masters of the loom, speakers of Tshangla, and keepers of an ancient Himalayan presence.

The story of the Chechens, the largest native people of the northern Caucasus: their Vainakh identity, Nakh language, Sunni Islam, clan society, stone watchtowers, code of honor, and their long struggle with the Russian state.

The story of the Ingush, a small Vainakh mountain people of the northern Caucasus: their Nakh language, Sunni Islam, clan society, the famous stone towers of their valleys, their code of honor, and their history of exile and return.