Across the seven thousand islands of the Philippines live the Filipinos, an Austronesian people of great warmth and resilience, of whom the Tagalog around Manila are among the largest and

A people of more than two and a half thousand years, the first nation to adopt Christianity, with an alphabet all their own. The story of the Armenians, Mount Ararat, the genocide of 1915, the global diaspora, and an unbreakable will to endure.

In the savannas and along the coast of southern Benin live the Fon, the principal people of the country and heirs to the great kingdom of Dahomey, one of the

The story of the Evenki, the great forest people of Siberia: a Tungusic people of hunters and reindeer herders scattered across an immense taiga, keepers of a famous shamanic tradition from whose language the very word shaman came to the world.

A journey into the northern taiga to meet the Komi, a Finno-Ugric people of rivers, reindeer, and endless forest in the far northeast of European Russia.

The Cree are Canada’s largest First Nations people, spread from the forests of Quebec to the plains of Alberta, shaped by the fur trade and now leading some of the country’s most significant self-government agreements.

Across a homeland the size of Western Europe live the Kazakhs, a Turkic nomad people of horses, felt yurts and fermented mares milk, whose eagle hunters still ride out across the mountains of China and Central Asia.

The Fur are the largest ethnic group of Darfur, the vast region of western Sudan whose very name, Dar Fur, means the land of the Fur. Numbering well over a

In the western Himalaya of Uttarakhand, amid soaring peaks and the sacred sources of the Ganges and Yamuna, live the Garhwali people, a hill community whose homeland is among the

In the forested western hills of Meghalaya, where the plateau falls toward the plains of Assam and Bangladesh, live the Garo people, who call themselves A·chik, “the hill people.” A