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Remaining Free Tribes Of the World
Asia
Asia
Andaman Islands
Andaman Islands
Two tribes of the Andaman Islands, belonging to India, have sought to avoid contact with the outside world.
The Sentinelese continue to actively and violently reject contact. They live on North Sentinel island, a small and remote island which lies to the west of the southern part of South Andaman Island. They are thought to number around 250 (median estimate). Based on helicopter surveys of the island, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami does not appear to have affected the Sentinelese adversely.
They are believed to be directly descended from the first humans that emerged "out of Africa". It is estimated that they have lived on their island for 60,000 years. Their language is markedly different from even other languages on the Andamans, which suggests that they have remained uncontacted for thousands of years. They are thus considered the most isolated people in the world, and they are likely to remain so, because India abandoned attempts to make contact. [2]
Another Andamanese tribe, the Jarawa, live on the main islands. They rejected all contact, but following the completion of a trunk road traversing their territory in 1997, some have begun emerging from the forest to beg for food. They are thought to number 300 persons.
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Vietnam
Vietnam
The Ruc people, when first "discovered" by North Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam War, were still hunting-gathering tribes, dwelling in caves of eastern Quang Binh province. Since then, the government has made many attempts to relocate and settle them.[3]
Oceania
Oceania
Australia
Australia
Main article: Pintupi Nine
In 1984, a group of Pintupi people who were living a traditional hunter-gatherer life were tracked down in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia. For the first time they encountered people from European-Australian society. They are believed to be the last uncontacted tribe in Australia.[4]
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New Guinea
New Guinea
Large areas of New Guinea are yet to be explored by scientists and anthropologists due to a lack of safety. The province of Irian Jaya or West Papua in the island of New Guinea is home to an estimated 44 uncontacted tribal groups.[5] Isolated tribes have been reported also in the eastern Indonesian islands.
The Americas:
The Americas:
On January 18, 2007, FUNAI reported that it had confirmed the presence of 67 uncontacted tribes in Brazil, up from 40 in 2005.[7] With this reported increase, Brazil has surpassed the island of New Guinea as the region having the highest number of uncontacted tribes (however, numbers are not available for Papua New Guinea).
Bolivia
Bolivia
As of 2006, the presence of five uncontacted groups was confirmed in Bolivia. A further three are to be confirmed. Those uncontacted groups whose presence has been confirmed are:Ayoreo in Parque Nacional Kaa Iya, Mbya-Yuqui in Yuqui Reservation and Rio Usurinta (most of the Yuqui are now contacted, only a few families remain uncontacted), Yurakare in Santa Cruz and Beni, Pacahuara in the Chacobo reservation, and Araona in the Araona Reservation. The presence of other groups such as Toromona in the Parque Nacional Madidi, and Nahuain the PN Madidi are yet to be confirmed.
Africa
Africa
Main article: Indigenous peoples of Africa
The continent of Africa, including associated islands such as Madagascar, but excluding Arabia.
Central Africa
Central Africa
Central Africa generally includes the lands mainly of the Congo River basin, south of the Sahara and west of the Great Rift Valley.
Pygmy peoples: Central and Western Africa
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East Africa
East Africa
East Africa generally includes the Horn of Africa region and (parts of) surrounding countries.
Tigray-Tigrinya people (Tigrinya): Eritrea
Tigray-Tigrinya people (Tigray): Ethiopia
Zulu: South Africa with significant population in Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania
Colombia
Colombia
Despite ongoing paramilitary conflict, Colombia is a country which offers maximum protection for isolated groups. Carabayo-Aroje is the most important group, living in the Parque Nacional del Rio Pure. It is not known whether any Yari survives now. Nukaak Maku were contacted in 2003 and 65% of the tribal members died of disease. Around two or three dozen Nukaak still remain isolated.
Ecuador
Ecuador
It is not known whether any Tagaeri survives now in Yasuni National Park. In the 1990s when a member of Tagaeri was contacted by a lone Huaorani hunter, he told him that Tagaeri numbers only a handful of members and are in danger of being wiped out by their hostile neighbours — the Taromenane. Since then there have been no more peaceful contacts. The Tagaeri hunter also mentioned about another group, the Oñamenane who numbered five or six individuals and there was one more tribe — the Huiñatare. In 2003 about 30 Taromenane were massacred by the Huaorani in retaliation for the killing of a Huaorani hunter. In the same year 14 Tagaeri were killed by loggers. In April 2006 a logger was speared to death by the Taromenane (in 2005 another one was also killed by the same tribe, whose body was later found embedded with 30 spears and his face unrecognizable). In the same month a further 30 Taromenane and 10 loggers were killed in conflicts according to leader Iki Ima Omene (of Huaorani). In Jan 2007 the president of Ecuador declared the Southern part of Yasuni a forbidden zone (7,580 square kilometers) in order to protect the uncontacted people. At the same time CONAIE reported that there are a total of 150–300 Taromenane (divided into two sub-tribes) and 20–30 Tagaeri surviving uncontacted there. The Oñamenane and Huiñatare are extinct. Ecuador continues to be the country with the largest number of uncontacted people massacred since 2000.
Guyana
Guyana
North Africa
North Africa
North Africa generally includes African countries with borders on the Mediterranean and northern Red Sea and Atlantic Ocean, bounded largely by the Sahara Desert to the south.
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French Guiana
French Guiana
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa
Southern Africa generally includes lands from the Cape of Good Hope northwards to the borders of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania, and islands such as Madagascar.
Peru
Peru
There are now five reserves in the Peruvian Amazon meant to protect the lands and rights of isolated peoples. Most of the reserves are currently entered by illegal loggers and petroleum companies with legal concessions to work in those lands, although their activities jeopardize the lives of the isolated populations.
After Brazil (43 uncontacted groups confirmed) and New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Iriyan Jaya), Peru has the largest number of uncontacted tribes in the world. Some of the groups in Peru are in danger of extermination by loggers and oil development. As of 2006, the locations where uncontacted groups are confirmed to be living are as follows:
Reserva Comunal Amarakaeri: Groups are Yora and other unidentified Panoan tribes.
Zona Reservada Biabo Cordillera Azul: Cacatibo.
Parque Nacional del Manu: Mashco-Piro, uncontacted bands of Matsiguenga, tribes belonging to Yura family and unidentified tribes.
Reserva Comunal Asháninka, Reserva Comunal Matsiguenga and Parque Nacional Otishi: uncontacted bands of Ashaninka.
Parque Nacional Alto Purús and Reserva Comunal Purús: Yaminahua, Chitonahua, Curajeño and Mashco-Piro-Iñapari.
Reserva Territorial del Estado: Kungapakori, Nahua, Matsiguenga, Nanti, Krineri and other unidentified tribes.
Reserva Territorial del Murunahua y Chitonahua: Murunahua, Chitonahua.
Reserva Territorial del Isconahua: Isconahua.
Reserva Territorial del Mashco-Piro: Various tribes belonging to Mashco-Piro such as Mascho-Piro-Iñapari.
Reservas territoriales del Cacataibo: Cacataibo.
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West Africa
West Africa
West Africa generally includes the region bounded by the Sahara Desert to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south.
Suriname
Suriname
Americas
Americas
the Americas is the continent (or supercontinent) comprising North and South America, and associated islands.
Main article: Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
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The Caribbean
The Caribbean
the Caribbean, or West Indies, generally includes the island chains of the Caribbean.
Taíno: Amerindians who inhabited the Caribbean island of Hispanola, of Arawakan descent.
Neo-Taíno nations Some scholars distinguish between the Taíno and Neo-Taíno groups. Neo-Taíno groups were also Amerindians of the Antilles islands, but had distinctive languages and cultural practices that differed from the High Taíno.[2] These groups include;
Venezuela
Venezuela
Paraguay
Paraguay
There remain perhaps as many as 300 Totobiegosode who have not been contacted; they belong to the Ayoreo ethnicity, which numbers around 2,000. In the 1990s the main group attempting to contact them was New Tribes Mission. In 1979 and 1986, the New Tribes Mission was accused of assisting in the forcible contact of nomadic Ayoreo Indians, whose unsuccessful attempts to remain in the forest led to several deaths. Others died soon after being brought out of the forest. The incident forced some Ayoreo to flee to Bolivia. The main threat currently are the ranchers. In 2004 a group of 17 Ayoreo-Totobiegosode previously uncontacted made contact with the outside world and decided to settle down (five men, seven women and five children, according to Survival). It was not known whether there were any more isolated Ayoreo left in the jungle. But in the first week of September 2007, another uncontacted band of Ayoreo-Totobiegosode were spotted by loggers in the Western Chaco. Ayoreo are believed to be the last uncontacted Indians south of the Amazon basin.[9] In 2008, a Paraguayan ruling blocked a Brazilian company from clearing Totobiegosode to make room for cattle ranches.[10][11]Although the forest is still being cleared illegally.[12]
Ciboney: a term preferred in Cuban historical texts for the neo-Taino-Siboney nations of the island of Cuba.
Ciguayo. Eastern Hispaniola.
Guanahatabey. Far Western Cuba, at the Guanahacabibes Peninsula.
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Central America and Mexico
Central America and Mexico
Central America generally includes the part of the North American (sub-)contintent from southern Mexico to and including Panama, this section includes indigenous peoples of Mexico.
Cocopa (Baja California, Mexico)
Paipai (Baja California, Mexico)
Chontal de Oaxaca (Tequistlatecan people of Oaxaca, Mexico)
Chichimeca Jonaz (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
Chorotega (Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica)
Ch'orti' (Mayan people of El Salvador)
Chontal Maya (Mayan language of Tabasco, Mexico)
Cochimí (Baja California, Mexico)
Huastec (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
Kiliwa (Baja California, Mexico)
Kumeyaay (Baja California, Mexico)
Lenca (Honduras and El Salvador)
Matlatzinca (Mexico (state), Mexico)
Mazahua (Mexico (state), Mexico)
Mexicanero (Durango, Mexico)
Mopan Maya (Mayan people of Guatemala and Belize)
Nahua (Mexico)
Pame (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
P'urhépecha (Michoacán, Mexico)
Q'anjob'al (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Tarahumara (Chihuahua, Mexico)
Yucatec Maya (Yucatán, Quintana Roo and Campeche Mexico)
Popular culture
Popular culture
Uncontacted tribes remain a fascination in Western culture. Recently, the idea of tour operators offering extreme adventure tours to specifically search out uncontacted peoples has become a controversial subject [13]. A BBC Four documentary in 2006 documented a controversial American tour operator who specializes in escorted tours to "discover" uncontacted peoples in West Papua [14] similar to the BBC's own adventure in Papua New Guinea to make their 1971 documentary A Blank on the Map in which the first contact in over a decade was made with the Biami people.[citation needed]
Uncontacted tribes have also emerged in works of literature and film. One of them was The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle released in 1912. It depicts early human hominids in the jungle of South America. Inspired by it, a Russian novel written in 1924, Sannikov Land, describes an island off the Siberian coast populated by an isolated Siberian tribe of Onkilon (another name for non-fictional Yuit thought to be extinct at the time), followed in 1973 by a Soviet movie The Sannikov Land. The 1995 film Last of the Dogmen tells the story of a group of uncontacted Cheyenne discovered living in a remote part of Montana. In the 1991 film At Play in the Fields of the Lord (based on the novel of the same name), an American pilot parachutes from an airplane into the Amazon where he encounters and lives with a previously uncontacted tribe. The 1985 film The Emerald Forest features a Western boy kidnapped by a previously uncontacted Amazonian tribe called the "Invisible People". The 1980 film The Gods Must Be Crazy dealt with a fictitious uncontacted tribe in South Africa. The tribe enjoy idyllic lives until they are set into chaos simply by contact with an object (a Coca-Cola bottle) from modern society. One of the tribe's elders (played by a !Kung man) sets out to throw the bottle off the "edge of the earth" to save his tribe. In 2006 the docudrama End of the Spear recounts the story of Operation Auca, in which five American Christian missionaries attempted to evangelize the Huaorani people of the jungles of Ecuador.
References
References
^ "The most isolated tribe in the world?". Survival International. Retrieved February 2010.
^ "Sự thật về những cơn đói của đồng bào Rục" (in Vietnamese). Retrieved February 2010. ("Chut people in famine"]
^ Colliding worlds: first contact in the western desert, 1932–84, National Museum of Australia
^ "Ishi: The Last Yahi", University of California - San Francisco, Library
^ "Brazil sees traces of more isolated Amazon tribes", Reuters
^ Brazil: Land for last survivor of unknown Amazon tribe. Survival International. 9 November 2006.
^ Signs of uncontacted Indians seen as forest is cleared around them
^ Legal battle over forest is victory for Paraguayan Indians, CNN
^ You're a 21st-century adventure tourist bored with whitewater
^ First Contact, BBC Four Anthropology Season, part 1 of 6
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North America
North America
North America generally includes Greenland, Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the eastern Aleutian Islands.
Main articles: List of First Nations peoples and Federally recognized tribes
Haida: the Pacific north-west coast
Nuu-chah-nulth: the Pacific north-west coast
Native Americans in the United States: United States, Mexico
Aboriginal peoples of Canada
Secwepemc: British Columbia, Canada
St'at'imc: Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada
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South America
South America
See also: List of indigenous peoples in Brazil, Indigenous peoples in Colombia, Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, and Indigenous peoples in Peru
South America generally includes all of the (sub-)continent and islands south of the Isthmus of Panama.
Awá: eastern Amazonian rainforest, Brazil
Jivaroan: Loreto and San Martín, Peru
Yora: Amazon rainforest, southeast Peru
Warao: of Venezuela's Orinoco River delta region.
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Asia
Asia
The (sub-)continent of Asia, including related islands, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asian Republics, the Middle East and Arabia.
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Central Asia
Central Asia
Central Asia generally includes the landlocked region east of the Caspian Sea, south of the Russian Taiga, to the Himalayas, and extending eastwards to Mongolia and the western Chinese provinces and autonomous regions.
Pashtun people - Pashto-speaking people inhabiting north-western Pakistan and Afghanistan[3]
Women of the Ghilzai tribe ofPashtun people
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East Asia
East Asia
East Asia generally includes the People's Republic of China, the Korean Peninsula, and the associated Pacific islands, principally Japan and Taiwan.
Ainu: Hokkaido, Japan and (until the end of World War II) on Sakhalin Island, Russia
Ryukyuans: Ryūkyū Kingdom, now Japan
Taiwanese aborigines: the island of Taiwan
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North Asia
North Asia
North Asia generally includes the Russian Far East and the northern and eastern parts of Siberia.
Northern indigenous peoples of Russia: over 40 distinct peoples, each with their own language and culture in Siberia and Russia
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South Asia
South Asia
South Asia generally includes the Indian subcontinental region, the Himalayan states and related islands of the Indian Ocean.
Adivasi: collective term for many indigenous peoples in India (see also List of Scheduled Tribes in India)
Kisan Tribals: indigenous peoples of the Orissa Sundergarh, India :
Andamanese: indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, India which include:
Great Andamanese: formerly at least 10 distinct groups living throughout Great Andaman, now confined to a single community on Strait Island, Andaman Is.
Jangil (Rutland Jarawa): now extinct, formerly of Rutland Island, Andamans
Sentinelese: North Sentinel Island, Andaman Is.
Nicobari: Nicobar Islands, India
Shompen: Nicobar Islands, India
Wanniyala-Aetto: Sri Lanka.
Naga: North-East India
Kalasha of Chitral: Ancient pre-Muslim ethnic minority in Chitral District, Northern Pakistan
Khasi-Jaintia: North-East India
Giraavaru people: Maldives
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia generally includes the mainland region sometimes known as Indochina, and the Malay archipelago.
Bajau: Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines)
Igorot: Cordillera mountains in Luzon in the Philippines
Karen: One of the hill tribes of Myanmar and Thailand
Lahu: One of the hill tribes of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Yunnan, China
Lisu: One of the hill tribes of Myanmar, Thailand, Arunachal Pradesh, India & Yunnan and Sichuan, China
Negrito: includes the Semang of the Malay peninsula, the Aeta of Luzon, the Ati of Panay, the Mani of Thailand, and the Andamanese. Also called orang asli or original people in theMalay
Tribes of Palawan: Palawan, Philippines
See also: Indigenous peoples in the Philippines
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Southwest Asia
Southwest Asia
Southwest Asia generally includes the region (formerly Persia) westwards of Pakistan, the Arabian peninsula, the Middle East, the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus region andAnatolia.
Persians - A Persian-speaking people living primarily in Iran.
Kurds - A people inhabiting the historic Kurdistan region, presently divided between the modern states of Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq.
Copts - The native Christian population of Egypt who have lived in the territory since pre-Islamic times.
Assyrians - Assyrian-speaking people mostly found in Assyria Today's North Of Iraq. They're also found in Syria, Turkey, Iran and the Caucasus region.
Bahrani people - Arabic-speaking people, inhabitants of the archipelago of Bahrain and the oasis of Qatif
Marsh Dwellers (Ma'dan) - Arabic-speaking group in the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands of southern Iraq / Iranian border[4]
Negev Bedouin - Arabic-speaking people in the Negev Desert of southern Israel[5]
Jews - Primarily Hebrew-speaking people descended of the Israelites (a West Semitic people), residing primarily in Israel, with communities dispersed throughout the diaspora.
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Circumpolar North
Circumpolar North
The Circumpolar North generally includes the lands surrounding the Arctic Circle.
Sami: Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Kola peninsula in Russia
Yupik: Alaska and the Russian Far East
Inupiat" Alaska's Arctic and North Slope boroughs and the Bering Straits
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Europe
Europe
Europe generally refers to the mass of the Eurasian peninsula westwards of the Ural Mountains, the islands of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic Ocean.
Basques: Northern Spain and Southern France
Crimean Karaites: Crimean Peninsula in Southern Ukraine
Crimean Tatars: Crimean Peninsula in Southern Ukraine
Izhorians: Northwest of Russia
Komi: Komi Republic in Northeast of European Russia
Nenets: Northeastern part of European Russia
Sami: Northern and central Norway, Sweden, Finland and Kola peninsula in the Northwest of Russia
Veps: Republic of Karelia, Northwest of Russia
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Oceania
Oceania
Oceania includes most islands of the Pacific Ocean, New Guinea and the continent of Australia.
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Australia
Australia
Australia includes the continental landmass, and associated islands.
Indigenous Australians: Australia
Torres Strait Islanders: Australia
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Melanesian
Melanesian
Melanesian generally includes New Guinea and other (far-)western Pacific islands from the Arafura Sea out to Fiji.
Papuans: more than 250 distinct tribes or clans, each with their own language and culture. The main island of New Guinea and surrounding islands (territory forming independent state of Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian provinces of West Papua and Papua Considered "Indigenous" these people are a subject to many debates.
Wopkaimin: western PNG, Star Mountains.
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Micronesia
Micronesia
Micronesia generally includes the various small island chains of the western and central Pacific.
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Polynesia
Polynesia
Polynesia generally includes New Zealand and thus islands of the central and southern Pacific Oceans
Africa
Africa
Main article: Indigenous peoples of Africa
The continent of Africa, including associated islands such as Madagascar, but excluding Arabia.
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Central Africa
Central Africa
Central Africa generally includes the lands mainly of the Congo River basin, south of the Sahara and west of the Great Rift Valley.
Pygmy peoples: Central and Western Africa
East Africa
East Africa
East Africa generally includes the Horn of Africa region and (parts of) surrounding countries.
Tigray-Tigrinya people (Tigrinya): Eritrea
Tigray-Tigrinya people (Tigray): Ethiopia
Zulu: South Africa with significant population in Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania
North Africa
North Africa
North Africa generally includes African countries with borders on the Mediterranean and northern Red Sea and Atlantic Ocean, bounded largely by the Sahara Desert to the south.
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa
Southern Africa generally includes lands from the Cape of Good Hope northwards to the borders of Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania, and islands such as Madagascar.
West Africa
West Africa
West Africa generally includes the region bounded by the Sahara Desert to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south.
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Americas
Americas
the Americas is the continent (or supercontinent) comprising North and South America, and associated islands.
Main article: Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas
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The Caribbean
The Caribbean
the Caribbean, or West Indies, generally includes the island chains of the Caribbean.
Taíno: Amerindians who inhabited the Caribbean island of Hispanola, of Arawakan descent.
Neo-Taíno nations Some scholars distinguish between the Taíno and Neo-Taíno groups. Neo-Taíno groups were also Amerindians of the Antilles islands, but had distinctive languages and cultural practices that differed from the High Taíno.[2] These groups include;
Ciboney: a term preferred in Cuban historical texts for the neo-Taino-Siboney nations of the island of Cuba.
Ciguayo. Eastern Hispaniola.
Guanahatabey. Far Western Cuba, at the Guanahacabibes Peninsula.
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Central America and Mexico
Central America and Mexico
Central America generally includes the part of the North American (sub-)contintent from southern Mexico to and including Panama, this section includes indigenous peoples of Mexico.
Cocopa (Baja California, Mexico)
Paipai (Baja California, Mexico)
Chontal de Oaxaca (Tequistlatecan people of Oaxaca, Mexico)
Chichimeca Jonaz (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
Chorotega (Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica)
Ch'orti' (Mayan people of El Salvador)
Chontal Maya (Mayan language of Tabasco, Mexico)
Cochimí (Baja California, Mexico)
Huastec (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
Kiliwa (Baja California, Mexico)
Kumeyaay (Baja California, Mexico)
Lenca (Honduras and El Salvador)
Matlatzinca (Mexico (state), Mexico)
Mazahua (Mexico (state), Mexico)
Mexicanero (Durango, Mexico)
Mopan Maya (Mayan people of Guatemala and Belize)
Nahua (Mexico)
Pame (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
P'urhépecha (Michoacán, Mexico)
Q'anjob'al (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Tarahumara (Chihuahua, Mexico)
Yucatec Maya (Yucatán, Quintana Roo and Campeche Mexico)
North America
North America
North America generally includes Greenland, Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the eastern Aleutian Islands.
Main articles: List of First Nations peoples and Federally recognized tribes
Haida: the Pacific north-west coast
Nuu-chah-nulth: the Pacific north-west coast
Native Americans in the United States: United States, Mexico
Aboriginal peoples of Canada
Secwepemc: British Columbia, Canada
St'at'imc: Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada
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South America
South America
See also: List of indigenous peoples in Brazil, Indigenous peoples in Colombia, Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, and Indigenous peoples in Peru
South America generally includes all of the (sub-)continent and islands south of the Isthmus of Panama.
Awá: eastern Amazonian rainforest, Brazil
Jivaroan: Loreto and San Martín, Peru
Yora: Amazon rainforest, southeast Peru
Warao: of Venezuela's Orinoco River delta region.
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Asia
Asia
The (sub-)continent of Asia, including related islands, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asian Republics, the Middle East and Arabia.
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Central Asia
Central Asia
Central Asia generally includes the landlocked region east of the Caspian Sea, south of the Russian Taiga, to the Himalayas, and extending eastwards to Mongolia and the western Chinese provinces and autonomous regions.
Pashtun people - Pashto-speaking people inhabiting north-western Pakistan and Afghanistan[3]
East Asia
East Asia
East Asia generally includes the People's Republic of China, the Korean Peninsula, and the associated Pacific islands, principally Japan and Taiwan.
Ainu: Hokkaido, Japan and (until the end of World War II) on Sakhalin Island, Russia
Ryukyuans: Ryūkyū Kingdom, now Japan
Taiwanese aborigines: the island of Taiwan
Women of the Ghilzai tribe ofPashtun people
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North Asia
North Asia
North Asia generally includes the Russian Far East and the northern and eastern parts of Siberia.
Northern indigenous peoples of Russia: over 40 distinct peoples, each with their own language and culture in Siberia and Russia
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South Asia
South Asia
South Asia generally includes the Indian subcontinental region, the Himalayan states and related islands of the Indian Ocean.
Adivasi: collective term for many indigenous peoples in India (see also List of Scheduled Tribes in India)
Kisan Tribals: indigenous peoples of the Orissa Sundergarh, India :
Andamanese: indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands, India which include:
Great Andamanese: formerly at least 10 distinct groups living throughout Great Andaman, now confined to a single community on Strait Island, Andaman Is.
Jangil (Rutland Jarawa): now extinct, formerly of Rutland Island, Andamans
Sentinelese: North Sentinel Island, Andaman Is.
Nicobari: Nicobar Islands, India
Shompen: Nicobar Islands, India
Wanniyala-Aetto: Sri Lanka.
Naga: North-East India
Kalasha of Chitral: Ancient pre-Muslim ethnic minority in Chitral District, Northern Pakistan
Khasi-Jaintia: North-East India
Giraavaru people: Maldives
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia generally includes the mainland region sometimes known as Indochina, and the Malay archipelago.
Bajau: Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines)
Igorot: Cordillera mountains in Luzon in the Philippines
Karen: One of the hill tribes of Myanmar and Thailand
Lahu: One of the hill tribes of Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Yunnan, China
Lisu: One of the hill tribes of Myanmar, Thailand, Arunachal Pradesh, India & Yunnan and Sichuan, China
Negrito: includes the Semang of the Malay peninsula, the Aeta of Luzon, the Ati of Panay, the Mani of Thailand, and the Andamanese. Also called orang asli or original people in theMalay
Tribes of Palawan: Palawan, Philippines
See also: Indigenous peoples in the Philippines
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Southwest Asia
Southwest Asia
Southwest Asia generally includes the region (formerly Persia) westwards of Pakistan, the Arabian peninsula, the Middle East, the Levant, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus region andAnatolia.
Persians - A Persian-speaking people living primarily in Iran.
Kurds - A people inhabiting the historic Kurdistan region, presently divided between the modern states of Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq.
Copts - The native Christian population of Egypt who have lived in the territory since pre-Islamic times.
Assyrians - Assyrian-speaking people mostly found in Assyria Today's North Of Iraq. They're also found in Syria, Turkey, Iran and the Caucasus region.
Bahrani people - Arabic-speaking people, inhabitants of the archipelago of Bahrain and the oasis of Qatif
Marsh Dwellers (Ma'dan) - Arabic-speaking group in the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands of southern Iraq / Iranian border[4]
Negev Bedouin - Arabic-speaking people in the Negev Desert of southern Israel[5]
Jews - Primarily Hebrew-speaking people descended of the Israelites (a West Semitic people), residing primarily in Israel, with communities dispersed throughout the diaspora.
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Circumpolar North
Circumpolar North
The Circumpolar North generally includes the lands surrounding the Arctic Circle.
Sami: Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Kola peninsula in Russia
Yupik: Alaska and the Russian Far East
Inupiat" Alaska's Arctic and North Slope boroughs and the Bering Straits
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Europe
Europe
Europe generally refers to the mass of the Eurasian peninsula westwards of the Ural Mountains, the islands of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic Ocean.
Basques: Northern Spain and Southern France
Crimean Karaites: Crimean Peninsula in Southern Ukraine
Crimean Tatars: Crimean Peninsula in Southern Ukraine
Izhorians: Northwest of Russia
Komi: Komi Republic in Northeast of European Russia
Nenets: Northeastern part of European Russia
Sami: Northern and central Norway, Sweden, Finland and Kola peninsula in the Northwest of Russia
Veps: Republic of Karelia, Northwest of Russia
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Oceania
Oceania
Oceania includes most islands of the Pacific Ocean, New Guinea and the continent of Australia.
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Australia
Australia
Australia includes the continental landmass, and associated islands.
Indigenous Australians: Australia
Torres Strait Islanders: Australia
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Melanesian
Melanesian
Melanesian generally includes New Guinea and other (far-)western Pacific islands from the Arafura Sea out to Fiji.
Papuans: more than 250 distinct tribes or clans, each with their own language and culture. The main island of New Guinea and surrounding islands (territory forming independent state of Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian provinces of West Papua and Papua Considered "Indigenous" these people are a subject to many debates.
Wopkaimin: western PNG, Star Mountains.
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Micronesia
Micronesia
Micronesia generally includes the various small island chains of the western and central Pacific.
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Polynesia
Polynesia
Polynesia generally includes New Zealand and thus islands of the central and southern Pacific Oceans
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