Across the high peaks and dry basins of Utah and Colorado live the Ute, who call themselves the Nuche, the people, and who gave their name to the state of

The Vai are a people of the coast of western Liberia and neighbouring Sierra Leone, a Mande community numbering some hundreds of thousands. Though not among the largest peoples of

The Venda, who call themselves the Vhavenda, are a Bantu people of the far north of South Africa, in Limpopo province, with communities also in Zimbabwe. Numbering some millions, they

Along the long, curving coast of Southeast Asia, from the Red River delta in the north to the Mekong in the south, live the Vietnamese, the Kinh people who make

Across the central islands of the Philippines live the Visayans, a great family of peoples, from the Cebuano to the Hiligaynon and Waray, whose seafaring ancestors so struck the first

On the shores of southeastern Massachusetts, on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha`s Vineyard and Nantucket, live the Wampanoag, the People of the First Light. Farmers of corn and

In the hills and coastal plains where Maharashtra meets Gujarat, north of the great city of Mumbai, live the Warli, an Adivasi people known throughout the world for their painting.

The Wolayta, or Wolaitta, are an Omotic-speaking people of southern Ethiopia, one of the larger and most densely settled communities of the region, centred on the Wolayta Zone and its

In the cerrado savanna of central Brazil, along the Rio das Mortes in Mato Grosso, live the Xavante, who call themselves the A’uwẽ. A Jê-speaking people who long kept the

In the mountains and valleys of northern Iraq lives one of the oldest and most misunderstood religious communities on earth, the Yazidis. A Kurdish-speaking people bound together by a unique