The Inuit built a remarkable way of life across the Arctic, from Alaska to Greenland, and today govern their own territory in Nunavut while facing the fastest warming climate on Earth.

The Mapuche held off the Inca and outlasted three centuries of war with Spain, and nearly two million of their descendants still live in Chile and Argentina today.

The Lakota built a horse-and-buffalo civilization across the northern Plains, survived conquest and Wounded Knee, and remain a living nation defending the Black Hills today.

Nepali-speaking and Hindu, the Lhotshampa farmed southern Bhutan for generations before exile scattered them across the world, a community defined by memory, endurance, and a lost homeland.

In the steep eastern forests of Bhutan live the Sharchop, perhaps the kingdom’s oldest people, masters of the loom, speakers of Tshangla, and keepers of an ancient Himalayan presence.

The story of the Chechens, the largest native people of the northern Caucasus: their Vainakh identity, Nakh language, Sunni Islam, clan society, stone watchtowers, code of honor, and their long struggle with the Russian state.

The story of the Ingush, a small Vainakh mountain people of the northern Caucasus: their Nakh language, Sunni Islam, clan society, the famous stone towers of their valleys, their code of honor, and their history of exile and return.

Descended from Tibetan migrants, the Ngalop of western Bhutan gave the kingdom its language, its Drukpa faith, its dzongs, and the national dress that became the face of the Thunder Dragon.

In the far northeast of China, hard against the border with Korea, lives a community of ethnic Koreans who crossed the river within living memory and kept the language, food and fierce pride of a homeland just across the water.

Across the canyon country of the American Southwest live the Navajo, or Diné, the largest Indigenous nation in the United States, whose language, weaving and ceremony remain vigorously alive today.