Along Nicaragua and Honduras’s Caribbean shore, the Miskito built an English-allied coastal kingdom that outlasted Spanish colonial rule entirely.

In the cloud wrapped mountains of northeastern Oaxaca, where a great sacred peak rises above a maze of ridges and forests, live a people famous throughout Mexico for a single

Long before Spanish ships reached the Gulf of Mexico, the mountains and valleys of what is now the state of Oaxaca were home to one of Mesoamerica’s most sophisticated Indigenous

Along the lower Colorado River, where a ribbon of green water cuts through the harsh deserts of the Southwest, the Mojave people made their home for countless generations. Farmers of

In the deep, forested valleys of the eastern Himalaya, where the ranges of Tibet fall away toward the plains of the south, lives a small mountain people whose life is

In the very heart of the African continent, in the vast rainforest that fills the great bowl of the central Congo basin, lives one of the largest peoples of the

On the Adriatic coast of the western Balkans, in a small land of black mountains, deep canyons, and a shining sea, live the Montenegrins, a South Slavic people famed for

On the dry central plateau of West Africa, in the heart of the country now called Burkina Faso, live a people who did what almost no one else in the

In the seasonally flooded plains of the Beni department in northern Bolivia live the Movima, a people whose homeland is defined by the yearly rise and fall of great tropical

High in the Colombian Andes, on a broad, cool plateau that today holds the sprawling capital city of Bogota, a confederation of farming and salt-trading chiefdoms once flourished with enough