The Herero are a Bantu people of Namibia, with communities also in Botswana and Angola, one of the notable pastoral peoples of southern Africa. Numbering some hundreds of thousands, they

The story of the Avars, the largest mountain people of Dagestan: their Nakh-Daghestanian language, Sunni Islam, the resistance of Imam Shamil, their crafts, food, and code of honor in the high Caucasus.

The Himba are a semi-nomadic pastoral people of the far northwest of Namibia, in the remote region of Kaokoland, or the Kunene, with communities also in Angola. Numbering some tens

In the high mountains of southern China and Southeast Asia, and now in cities far across the world, live the Hmong, a people of the heights without a state of

In the forested hills of the Kolhan region of Jharkhand live the Ho, one of the great tribal communities of eastern India and among its most ancient peoples. Speakers of

The story of the Sakha, or Yakuts, a Turkic people of the frozen northeast of Siberia: the most northerly horse and cattle herders on earth, heirs to the great Olonkho epic, the festival of the Ysyakh, and a deep world of belief in one of the coldest lands anywhere.

On the vast grasslands beyond the Great Wall live the Mongols, a nation of herders and horsemen who once ruled the largest land empire in history and still measure their world by the open sky.

The Hutu, or Bahutu, are the largest population group of Rwanda and Burundi, two small, densely populated countries in the highlands of the Great Lakes region of Central Africa, where

The Ijaw, or Izon, are one of the major peoples of the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria, a great population of fishermen and traders scattered across the creeks, mangroves and

In the narrow coastal strip of northwest Luzon, hemmed between the mountains and the sea, live the Ilocano, the third-largest people of the Philippines. From a hard and stingy homeland