On the southern peninsula of Sulawesi live the Bugis, one of the great seafaring peoples of Indonesia, famed as sailors, shipbuilders, and traders whose wooden schooners ranged across the archipelago

The Chagga, or Wachagga, are a Bantu-speaking people who live on the fertile slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania. Numbering around two million, they are one of the largest

In the rugged Nallamala hills of the eastern Deccan, in the forests around the sacred hill of Srisailam, live the Chenchu, one of the classic hunter-gatherer peoples of India. Foragers

The Chewa, also called Nyanja, are the largest ethnic group in Malawi and a major people of eastern Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Numbering many millions, they are a Bantu people

In the heart of central India, where the fertile rice plains of the Mahanadi meet the deep forests of Bastar, live the Chhattisgarhi people, the population of one of India’s

Among the great nations of the American Southeast, the Chickasaw were renowned above all as warriors, the unconquered guardians of the Mississippi country in what is now northern Mississippi and

In the remote mountains of western Myanmar, along the borders with India and Bangladesh, live the Chin, a family of related hill peoples divided into many clans and tongues. Isolated

Among the great nations of the American Southeast, the Choctaw built a settled world of farming towns in the woodlands of Mississippi, tracing their origins to the sacred mound of

At the north-eastern tip of Asia, where Siberia reaches toward Alaska across the Bering Strait, live the Chukchi, one of the northernmost peoples on earth. On the frozen tundra and

In the Kathmandu valley the Newars built one of Asia’s great urban civilizations, masters of the pagoda and the bronze, keepers of a living goddess and a faith both Hindu and Buddhist.