On the long chain of subtropical islands between Japan and Taiwan live the Ryukyuans, an island people whose gentle culture, distinct languages, and proud history set them apart within Japan.

The Sahrawi are the people of the Western Sahara, the disputed desert territory on the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa, and of the refugee camps near Tindouf in southwestern Algeria.

On the slopes of Mount Gerizim above the city of Nablus, and in the town of Holon by the sea, live the Samaritans, one of the smallest and most ancient

The Samburu are a Nilotic pastoral people of north-central Kenya, close kin to the Maasai with whom they share the Maa language and a common heritage of cattle-keeping. Numbering several

The San, also called Bushmen or, in Botswana, Basarwa, are the indigenous hunter-gatherers of southern Africa, the oldest inhabitants of the region and among the most ancient peoples on earth.

Across the forested plateaus of Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Odisha live the Santhal, one of the largest tribal communities of India and among the most ancient peoples of the subcontinent.

In the great temple city of Madurai and other towns of Tamil Nadu lives one of the most remarkable communities of India: the Saurashtra people, silk-weavers who speak an Indo-Aryan

The story of the Circassians, the Adyghe people of the northwestern Caucasus: their Northwest Caucasian language, their warrior and horseman culture, the code of the Xabze, and the nineteenth-century catastrophe that scattered them across the world.

Along the fertile floodplain of the lower Zambezi, in the heart of central Mozambique and across into southern Malawi, live the Sena, farmers and fishers of one of Africa`s greatest

The Senufo are a large group of related peoples of the West African savanna, living across the borderlands of northern Côte d’Ivoire, southern Mali and southwestern Burkina Faso. Numbering some