On a small archipelago of golden stone in the very middle of the Mediterranean, between Sicily and North Africa, live the Maltese, one of the most distinctive peoples of Europe.

In the far west of Guatemala, where the land rises to the highest mountains in Central America and the border with Mexico cuts across ancient territory, lives a Maya people

On a green island set in the middle of the Irish Sea, at the very heart of the British Isles, live the Manx, one of the Celtic nations. Heirs to

In the karst hills of the northwest of Guangxi, in the mountainous south of China, live the Maonan, one of the smallest of the country’s recognised peoples, numbering only around

Far in the southern Pacific, where Polynesia meets the roaring forties, lies the last great landmass humans ever settled. The Maori, descendants of master navigators who crossed the ocean in

Across two chains of coral atolls whose land averages two meters above the sea live the heirs of the Pacific’s most refined navigators. The Marshallese read ocean swells the way

A people of the lowland Terai, the Tharu mastered a malarial jungle for centuries, famed for their painted houses, stick dance, and Maghi new year, before dispossession opened their land.

Long before the Japanese state reached Hokkaido, the Ainu lived there with their own language, gods, and way of life. An honest portrait of their history and revival.

High on the central plateau of Madagascar, the great island off the southeast coast of Africa, live the Merina, the people who built the kingdom that came to rule the

In the rugged mountains of eastern Guerrero lives a people whose language stands almost alone in the Americas. Known to the wider world as the Tlapanec, they call themselves Meꞌphaa,