On the forested plateau of Chota Nagpur in eastern India live the Munda, one of the great tribal communities of the subcontinent and among its most ancient peoples. Speakers of

The Mursi are a Nilo-Saharan people of the lower Omo Valley in the far south of Ethiopia, living between the Omo and Mago rivers around the Mago National Park. Numbering

The Nama, or Namaqua, are a Khoekhoe people of Namibia and the northwestern Cape of South Africa, the largest surviving group of the Khoikhoi, the ancient herding peoples of southern

An ancient people of the northwestern Caucasus, driven from their homeland in a nineteenth-century catastrophe and scattered across the world. The story of the Circassians, the Adyghe code, the expulsion of 1864, and a nation that lives on in exile.

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The Nuba are the many peoples of the Nuba Mountains, a range of rocky hills rising from the plains of South Kordofan in central Sudan. Numbering perhaps a million or