High on the great plateau of the Horn of Africa, on a roof of cool mountains lifted far above the deserts and savannas around it, lives one of the most

Along the Volga lives a Finno-Ugric people who kept an ancient nature religion alive into the present. An honest portrait of the Mari and their holy groves.

Across the deserts, mountains, and high plains of the American Southwest, the Apache built one of the most resilient and adaptable ways of life on the continent. Neither a single

Heirs to the kingdom of Sheba, builders of desert skyscrapers and the people who gave the world coffee, the Yemenis endure an ancient glory and a present tragedy.

Scattered through the mountains of the southern Balkans, in Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, and beyond, live the Aromanians, one of the most remarkable and least known of Europe’s peoples. A

In the red heart of the Australian continent, around the town now called Alice Springs and across the ranges and desert country of Central Australia, live the Arrernte, one of

The Ashaninka are the largest Indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon, an Arawak-speaking nation whose river-based homeland stretches across the forested foothills of central Peru. Their history includes one of

In the gold-rich forests of central Ghana rose one of Africa’s great empires: a kingdom welded from rival chiefdoms by a sacred stool said to have descended from the sky,

In the vast tidal swamps of the southwestern lowlands of Western New Guinea, where broad rivers wind through endless mangrove and sago forest before reaching the Arafura Sea, live the

On the high Andean plateau between Bolivia and Peru, the Aymara have outlasted empires while keeping their language, land, and identity alive.