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.

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

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

From the birthplace of the Buddha to the summit of Everest, Nepal gathers a hundred peoples and two great faiths into one never-colonized Himalayan nation of Sherpas, Newars, and Gurkhas.

One of the largest Tibeto-Burman peoples of Nepal, the Tamang have long lived in the hills ringing Kathmandu, blending Tibetan Buddhism, a tonal language, and the rhythm of the damphu drum.

Along the northern edge of the Great Plains, where the grasslands rise toward the Rocky Mountains, the Blackfoot built one of the most powerful ways of life on the northern

The Bribri are the largest Indigenous people of Costa Rica, a Chibchan-speaking nation whose homeland in the rugged Talamanca mountains has sheltered them from full outside conquest for centuries. Their

Around a beautiful mountain lake in Yunnan, the Bai built the kingdoms of Nanzhao and Dali, a refined civilization of whitewashed towns, famous tie-dye, and the symbolic three-course tea.

An ancient people of the southwestern mountains, the Yi kept their own written script and a learned priesthood, and light up each summer with the fire of the Torch Festival.

Across the vast grasslands of the Great Plains, the Cheyenne built one of the most storied ways of life in Native North America, a world of the bison hunt, the