Bulgaria gave the Slavic world its written culture, rose to imperial glory, then endured the longest subjugation in Europe, surviving five centuries through faith and language alone.

The Quechua are the largest indigenous nation in the Americas, heirs to the Inca Empire, still farming, weaving, and speaking Runasimi across the high Andes today.

The Maya built one of the great civilizations of the ancient Americas, and millions of their descendants still speak Maya languages and keep Maya tradition alive across Mexico and Central America today.

High under a glacier in northwest Yunnan live the Naxi, a small people who kept the last living picture-script on earth, rescued forgotten music, and built a town of running water at the foot of a sacred mountain.

The great Iranian people of Central Asia, the Tajiks speak a form of Persian and are heirs to the Samanid golden age, the poetry of Rudaki, and the high valleys of the Pamirs.

The Cherokee built towns, a written constitution, and their own syllabary before being forced along the Trail of Tears, and today lead one of the largest and most prosperous tribal nations in the United States.

Across the mountains and plains of Fars in southern Iran move the Qashqai, one of the last great nomadic confederations of the Middle East. Turkic-speaking herders of sheep and goats,

The story of the Nenets, the greatest of the reindeer-herding peoples of the Russian Arctic: a Samoyedic people of the open tundra, keepers of one of the last great nomadic traditions on earth, their reindeer, their hide tents, their shamanism, and their struggle to survive in an age of gas and industry.

The Riffians are a Berber people of the Rif, the mountainous region of northern Morocco along the Mediterranean coast. Numbering some millions, they are one of the major Amazigh communities

Along the western coast of Myanmar, in Rakhine State by the Bay of Bengal, lived the Rohingya, a Muslim people whose language and faith set them apart from the Buddhist