The Acholi are a Luo people of northern Uganda and the neighbouring parts of South Sudan, one of the Nilotic communities whose ancestors migrated south into the region over past

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In the upper valley of the Brahmaputra in Assam live the Ahom people, descendants of a Tai warrior band that crossed the eastern mountains in the thirteenth century and founded

Along the storm-lashed chain of the Aleutian Islands, where the Pacific meets the Bering Sea, live the Unangax̂, better known as the Aleut. For thousands of years they mastered one

In the golden mountains where Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China draw near live the Altai, a Turkic people of one of the most beautiful and ancient regions of Siberia. Their

On the remote forested islands of the Andaman archipelago in the Bay of Bengal live the Andamanese, among the most ancient and isolated peoples on earth. Comprising the Great Andamanese,

Among the most distinctive of India’s communities are the Anglo-Indians, a people defined by their mixed British and Indian ancestry, their English mother tongue, and their Christian faith. Once the

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