The story of the Circassians, the Adyghe people of the northwestern Caucasus: their Northwest Caucasian language, their warrior and horseman culture, the code of the Xabze, and the nineteenth-century catastrophe that scattered them across the world.

Known as the Tamu, the Gurung of central Nepal’s Annapurna hills are famed for their Gurkha soldiers, the trance-dance Ghatu, and a religion blending Buddhism, Bon, and the shaman.

The story of the Tuvans, a Turkic herding people at the geographic center of Asia: their nomadic life of steppe and taiga, the astonishing art of throat singing, their rare blend of Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism, and their unusual path from brief independence into the Russian state.

A small nation that gave the world monotheism and survived two thousand years of exile and persecution. The story of the Jewish people, their faith and language, the long diaspora, the Holocaust, and the return to a contested homeland.

Inventors of democracy, philosophy, and rational inquiry, heirs of Byzantium and survivors of Ottoman rule, the Greeks carry one of humanity longest and greatest stories across three thousand years.

Where the mountains of southeastern Alaska drop straight into a cold, salmon-filled sea, and where cedar and spruce crowd a coast drenched in rain, live the Tlingit, the people of

In the humid, green lowlands of Mexico’s Gulf coast, where the Sierra Madre descends toward the sea, live the Totonac, heirs to one of the great civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica.

Turkish Encounter Song When I see your sultan at dawn, I said are you sultan? He said no-no. Her eyes are bright, her hands are hennaed, I said are you

The life of the Turks has passed through wars and struggle. You can feel this sadness in Turkish folk music.

The story of the Mordvins, the largest and oldest Finno-Ugric people of the Volga, made up of the two nations of the Erzya and the Moksha, each with its own language, dress, and identity.