In the karst hills of northern Guangxi, in the mountainous south of China, live the Mulao, a small farming people of the limestone country, close kin to the Dong and

In the rivers and woodlands of the American Southeast, the Muscogee built one of the most sophisticated societies of the region, a confederacy of many towns bound together into a

Nahua people form the largest Indigenous population in Mexico today, the linguistic and cultural heirs of a world that produced the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan and dozens of other city-states

In the heart of the Brazilian interior, where the vast savanna of the cerrado stretches across the state of Mato Grosso, live the Nambikwara, a people whose way of life

In the rugged mountains of southwestern Colombia, in the department of Cauca, live the Nasa, an indigenous people long known to outsiders as the Paez. Their homeland is a demanding

A thousand years ago, navigators reading stars and swells found the most isolated islands on earth and made them the northern point of the Polynesian triangle. Their descendants, the Kanaka

Just south of the equator, three hundred kilometers from its nearest neighbor, lies a single raised island whose people have twice been counted nearly out of existence and twice recovered.

Across the high grasslands north and east of Pretoria live the Ndebele, a Nguni people whose painted homes and beaded dress have made them one of the most recognised of

Among the Indigenous nations of the American Northwest, few are as widely remembered as the Nez Perce, a people whose name is bound up with legendary horsemanship, a heartbreaking flight

High in the rain-soaked mountains of western Panama lives a people who quietly make up one of the largest indigenous nations in Central America. The Ngäbe have farmed these steep