In the far northeast of China, on the plains of the Nen river and the edge of the great Hulunbuir grassland, live the Daur, a settled farming people of Mongol

In the hills of the Dehong country and the border ranges of the far southwest of Yunnan, near the frontier with Burma, live the De’ang, a small people famed as

In the deepest gorge of northwest Yunnan, hemmed in by snow and forest, lives one of the smallest of all the peoples China officially recognises: the Derung, also known as

In the fertile valleys between the Andes and the Atacama Desert, the Diaguita built one of South America’s finest pottery traditions, and were only formally recognized by Chile in 2006.

Along a great sandstone cliff in the heart of Mali, a people built an entire civilization into the rock. The Dogon, farmers and sculptors who took refuge on the Bandiagara

In the folded green valleys where Guizhou, Hunan, and Guangxi meet live the Dong, a people of southern China famous for the wooden drum towers and covered bridges they raise

In the dry, folded hills of loess east of the Tao river, in the province of Gansu in the northwest of China, live the Dongxiang, a Muslim people of the

In the vast, rain-soaked forests where Panama meets Colombia lives one of the most artistically renowned Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the Embera. A river and rainforest people of the

At the northern end of the Baltic states, facing Finland across a narrow gulf, live the Estonians, a Finnic people whose language and heritage set them apart from all their

Along the lagoon-laced coast of West Africa, in the well-watered country between the mouth of the Volta River and the hills of Togo, lives a people bound together by a