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x Cree Cree     Saskatchewan
The Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations / Native Americans in North America, with 200,000 members living in Canada. The major proportion of Cree in Canada live north and west of Lake Superior, in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan,...
Northwest Territories
Ontario
Québec
Alberta
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x Inuit Inuit women 1907 Eskimo Inupiat Canada
The Inuit (Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, "People") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, the United States, and Russia. Inuit is a collective noun; the singular is "Inuk". The Inuit language is...
Alaska Natives Inuvialuit Alaska
Native Americans in the United States Greenland
Russia
x Algonquin Anishinaabe-Anishinini Map   Fox Québec
The Algonquins are aboriginal/First Nations inhabitants of North America who speak the Algonquin language, a divergent dialect of the Ojibwe language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely...
x Tlingit Tlingit and Haida Central Council Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast Taku Indians Canada
The Tlingit ( /ˈklɪŋkɨt/ or /ˈtlɪŋɡɨt/; also spelled Tlinkit) are an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of America. Their name for themselves is Lingít, meaning "People of the Tides" (pronounced [ɬɪŋkɪ́t]). The Russian name Koloshi ...
Alaska Natives Auke Indians Alaska
x Dene     Chipewyan Mackenzie Valley
The Dene (Dené) are an aboriginal group of First Nations who live in the northern boreal and Arctic regions of Canada. The Dené speak Northern Athabaskan languages. Dene is the common Athabaskan word for "people" (Sapir 1915, p. 558). The term "Dene...
Tłı̨chǫ Canada
Yellowknives
Slavey
Tsuu T'ina Nation
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x Okanagan people   Plateau Indians   Pacific Northwest
The Okanagan people, also spelled Okanogan, are a First Nations and Native American people whose traditional territory spans the U.S.-Canada boundary in Washington state and British Columbia. Known in their own language as the ʔukʷnaʔqínx, they are...
x Blackfoot Blackfoot - Bear Bull Plains Indians Kainai Nation Alberta
The Blackfoot Confederacy or Niitsítapi (meaning "original people"; c.f. Ojibwe: Anishinaabeg and Quinnipiac: Eansketambawg) is the collective name of three First Nations in Alberta and one Native American tribe in Montana. The Blackfoot Confederacy...
Native Americans in the United States Siksika Nation Montana
x Anishinaabe Anishinaabe-Anishinini Map   Mississaugas Canada
Anishinaabe or Anishinabe—or more properly Anishinaabeg or Anishinabek, which is the plural form of the word—is the autonym often used by the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Algonquin peoples. They all speak closely related Anishinaabemowin/Anishinaabe languages...
x Mississaugas Anishinaabe-Anishinini Map Anishinaabe   Ontario
The Mississaugas are a subtribe of the Anishinaabe-speaking First Nations people located in southern Ontario, Canada. They are closely related to the Ojibwa. The name "Mississauga" comes from the Anishinaabe word Misi-zaagiing, meaning "[Those at...
Eastern Woodlands tribes
x Iroquois Irokezi w XVIII wieku Indigenous peoples of the Americas Mohawk nation Québec
The Iroquois ( /ˈɪrəkwɔɪ/ or  /ˈɪrəkwɑː/), also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse", are a league of several nations and tribes of indigenous people of North America. After the Iroquoian-speaking peoples of present-day...
Native Americans in the United States Onondaga
Cayuga nation
Oneida tribe
Seneca nation
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x Nakoda Their Majesties greet chieftains of the Stoney Indian Tribe, who have brought a photo of Queen Victoria Plains Indians   Alberta
The Nakoda (also known as Stoney or Îyârhe Nakoda) are a First Nation group, indigenous to both Canada and, originally, the United States. They used to inhabit large parts of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana, but their reserves...
Montana
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
x Assiniboine Assiniboine Family, Montana, 1890-1891 Plains Indians    
The Assiniboines or Assiniboins ( /əˈsɪnɨbɔɪnz/; Ojibwe: Asinaan, "stone Sioux"; also in plural Assiniboine or Assiniboin), also known as the Hohe and known by the endonym Nakota (or Nakoda or Nakona), are a Siouan Native American/First Nations...
x Métis people Riel-o First Nations   Ontario
The Métis ( /meɪˈtiː/; Canadian French: [meˈtsɪs]; Michif: [mɪˈtʃɪf]) are one of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who trace their descent to mixed First Nations and European heritage. The term was historically a catch-all describing the offspring of...
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
x Yolngu   Indigenous Australians   Arnhem Land
The Yolngu or Yolŋu (IPA: [ˈjoːlŋʊ]) are an Indigenous Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Yolngu means “person” in the Yolŋu languages. The complete system of Yolngu Law is known as the...
x Yamatji        
Yamatji (or 'Yamaji' in the orthography of Wajarri) is a name commonly used by Aboriginal people in the Murchison and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia to refer to themselves, and sometimes also to Aboriginal people generally, when speaking...
x Mohawk nation Tegning av den kjente mohawkhøvdingen Joseph Brant. Iroquois   Québec
Mohawk (borrowed from the Narraganset 'mohowaùuck', 'they eat (animate) things,' hence 'man-eaters') are the most easterly tribe of the Iroquois confederation. They call themselves Kanien'gehaga, people of the place of the flint. Kanien'kehá:ka (...
Native Americans in the United States New York
x Eora Bennelong      
The Eora people ( /jʊərɑː/), a group of indigenous people of Australia, are those Australian Aborigines that were united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and survived as skilled hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans scattered...
x Wurundjeri Possum     Melbourne
The Wurundjeri are a people of the Indigenous Australian nation of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin alliance, who occupy the Birrarung Valley, its tributaries and the present location of Melbourne, Australia. Prior to European settlement,...
x Pitjantjatjara Uluru in the evening Indigenous Australians   Central Australia
Pitjantjatjara (pronounced [ˈb̥ɪɟɐɲɟɐɟɐɾɐ]) is the name of both an Aboriginal people of the Central Australian desert, and their language (for which see Pitjantjatjara language). They are closely related to the Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra and...
Australia
x Warlpiri        
The Warlpiri are a group of Indigenous Australians, many of whom speak the Warlpiri language. There are 5,000–6,000 Warlpiri, living mostly in a few towns and settlements scattered through their traditional land in Australia's Northern Territory,...
x Ainu people AinuGroup     Japan
The Ainu (アイヌ), also called Aynu, Aino (アイノ), and in historical texts Ezo (蝦夷), are indigenous people or groups in Japan and Russia. Historically, they spoke the Ainu language and related varieties and lived in Hokkaidō, the Kuril Islands, and much...
x Aleut AleuWinterHouse Alaska Natives   Kamchatka Krai
Aleut people (/ˈæli.uːt/) are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, United States and Kamchatka Krai, Russia. The name "Aleut" comes from the Aleut word allíthuh, meaning "community." A regional self-denomination is Unangax̂,...
Alaska
x Inuvialuit   Inuit    
The Inuvialuit (sing. Inuvialuk; the real people) or Western Canadian Inuit are Inuit people who live in the western Canadian Arctic region. They, like all other Inuit, are descendants of the Thule who migrated eastward from Alaska. Their homeland -...
x Inupiat Inuit man 1906 Inuit    
The Iñupiat (plural) or Iñupiaq (singular) and Iñupiak (dual) (from iñuk 'person' - and -piaq 'real', i.e., 'real people') or formerly Inupik are the people of Alaska's Northwest Arctic and North Slope boroughs and the Bering Straits region. Barrow,...
Native Americans in the United States
x Yupik Edward S. Curtis Collection People 008 Eskimo   Alaska
The Yupik (in the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Yup'ik, plural Yupiit), are a group of indigenous or aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East. They include the Central Alaskan Yup'ik people of...
Alaska Natives Canada
Siberia
x Slavey Slavey girls Mackenzie River Northwest Territories - NA-1463-23 Dene    
The Slavey (also Slave or Hare) are a First Nations aboriginal people of the Dene group, indigenous to the Great Slave Lake region, in Canada's Northwest Territories, and extending into northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta. The...
x Djagaraga        
The Djagaraga or Gudang are an Australian Aboriginal tribe, inhabiting the northernmost area of Cape York Peninsula. Albany Island or Pabaju is said to have certainly been part of Gudang territory. Traditionally they spoke the Djagaraga language.
x Guugu Yimithirr people        
The Guugu Yimithirr are an Australian Aboriginal tribe of Far North Queensland, many of whom today live at Hopevale (population approximately 800), which is the administrative centre of Hopevale Shire. It is about 46 km from Cooktown by road. It is...
x Gorualgal       Sydney
The Gorualgal were an Aboriginal tribe of Lower Northern Sydney who inhabited the area around Fig Tree Point. Their land is now present-day Northbridge, located in the City of Willoughby.
x Gunwinggu        
Kunwinjku (Gunwinggu or Gunwinjgu), also known as Bininj Gunwok or Mayali, is an Australian Aboriginal language in northern Australia. Speakers live primarily in western Arnhem Land. There are perhaps two thousand fluent speakers in an area roughly...
x Paiwan Slabstone House by Paiwan ca. Prior to 1945     Taiwan
The Paiwan (Chinese: 排灣; pinyin: Páiwān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pâi-oan) are an aboriginal tribe of Taiwan. They speak the Paiwan language. In the year 2000 the Paiwan numbered 70,331. This was approximately 17.7% of Taiwan's total indigenous population,...
Republic of China (Taiwan)
x Koara       Kuwarra Western Desert
The Koara people are an Aboriginal tribe living in the Kuwarra Western Desert region of Western Australia. The Koara are found in the following areas: The Koara have also been referred to, in literature, as:
x White NordischNordic   Anglo-Australian  
White people (also the Caucasian race) is a term usually referring to human beings characterized (at least in part) by the light pigmentation of their skin. Rather than being a straightforward description of skin color, the term white denotes a...
Europeans
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
Hillbilly
White American
x Anglo-Australian   White      
x Zhuang Ethnic Zhuang Costumes Guangnan Yunnan China      
The Zhuang people (Chinese: 壮族; pinyin: Zhuàngzú; Zhuang: Bouxcuengh) are an ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. Some also live in the Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou and Hunan provinces. They form one...
x Uyghur people Uyghur figures     Pakistan
The Uyghurs (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر‎, ULY: Uyghur; [ʔʊjˈʁʊː]; simplified Chinese: 维吾尔; traditional Chinese: 維吾爾; pinyin: Wéiwú'ěr) are a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. Today, Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous...
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Turkey
more
x Tibetan people Two Tibetan women in front of the Potala, Lhasa (2005)     Tibet
The Tibetan people (Tibetan: བོད་པ།་, Wylie: Bodpa; Chinese: 藏族; pinyin: Zàng Zú) are an ethnic group that is native to Tibet, which is mostly in the People's Republic of China. They number 5.4 million and are the 10th largest ethnic group in the...
x Hui people Hui people      
The Hui people (Chinese: 回族; pinyin: Huízú, Xiao'erjing: حُوِ ذَو / حواري) are a predominantly Muslim ethnic group in China. Hui people are found throughout the country, though they are concentrated mainly in the provinces of Ningxia, Qinghai, and...
x Ethnic Mongols in China Mongols clothes man and woman     Inner Mongolia
Mongols in China (Chinese: 蒙古族 Ménggǔzú) are citizens of the People's Republic of China who are ethnic Mongols. They form one of the 55 ethnic minorities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. There are approximately 5.8 million...
x Buyei Shitoucun,Longtanzhen,Guizhou,China      
The Buyei (also spelled Puyi, Bouyei and Buyi; self called: Buxqyaix [puʔjai], or "Puzhong", "Burao", "Puman"; Chinese: 布依族; Pinyin: Bùyīzú; Vietnamese: người Bố Y) are an ethnic group living in southern mainland China. Numbering 2.5 million, they...
x Hani people Typical daily attire of ethnic Hani in China. Near Yuanyang, Yunnan Province, China.      
The Hani people (Hani: Haqniq; Chinese: 哈尼族; pinyin: Hānízú; Vietnamese: Người Hà Nhì) are an ethnic group. They form one of the 56 nationalities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They also form one of the 54 officially...
x Salar Islam in China      
Salar people (Salar: Salır, Turkic: Salar, Chinese: 撒拉族, Pinyin: Sālāzú) are a Turkic people. Their language belongs to the Oghuz group, classified within the Turkic language family. The Salars are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized...
x She people        
The She (畲) people (She Hakka: [sa]; Cantonese: [sɛ̏ː]; Fuzhou: [sia˥]) are a Chinese ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They are the largest minority in Fujian province. They...
x Oroqen   Tungusic peoples    
The Oroqen people (simplified Chinese: 鄂伦春族; traditional Chinese: 鄂倫春族; pinyin: Èlúnchūn zú; Mongolian: Orčun; also spelt Orochen or Orochon) are an ethnic group in northern China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the...
x Bai Bai female costumes      
The Bai or Baip (Chinese: 白族; pinyin: Báizú; endonym pronounced [pɛ̀tsī]) are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They numbered 1,858,063 as of 2000. The Bai People hold the white colour in high...
x Qiang Qiangpeople      
The Qiang people (Chinese: 羌族; Mandarin Pinyin: qiāng zú; Jyutping: goeng zuk) are an ethnic group of China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, with a population of approximately 200,000,...
x Maonan        
The Maonan (self name: Anan meaning local people) people are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. There are a total of 107,166 Maonan, mostly living northern Guangxi province in southern China. The...
x Dong people Ethic Dong Liping Guizhou China      
The Dong (Chinese: 侗族; pinyin: Dòngzú; own name in Kam script: Gaem [kɐ́m]), a Kam–Sui people of southern China, are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They are famed for their native-bred Kam Sweet...
x Nu people        
The Nu people (Chinese: 怒族; pinyin: Nùzú) are one of the 56 ethnic groups recognized by the People's Republic of China. Their population of 27,000 is divided into the Northern, Central and Southern groups. Their homeland is a country of high...
x Lahu Lahu girls      
The Lahu (Chinese: 拉祜族; pinyin: Lāhùzú; own names: Ladhulsi or Kawzhawd; Vietnamese: La Hủ) are an ethnic group of Southeast Asia and China. They are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, where about...
x Shui        
The Sui people (Chinese: 水族; pinyin: Shuǐzú; autonym: ai33 sui33) are an ethnic group living mostly in Guizhou Province, China. They are counted as one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. The Sui are...
x Yugur Yugur girl      
The Yugurs (Chinese: 裕固族; pinyin: Yùgù Zú), or Yellow Uyghurs as they are traditionally known, are one of China's 56 officially recognized nationalities, consisting of 13,719 persons according to the 2000 census. The Yugur live primarily in Sunan...
x Daur CEM-44-La-Chine-la-Tartarie-Chinoise-et-le-Thibet-1734-Amur-2572      
The Daur people (simplified Chinese: 达斡尔族; traditional Chinese: 達斡爾族; pinyin: Dáwò'ěr zú; the former name "Dahur" is considered derogatory) are a Mongolic-speaking sub-ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized in the...
x Tujia Place_-_Tujia      
The Tujia (Tujia: Bizika; Chinese: 土家族; pinyin: Tǔjiāzú), with a total population of over 8 million, is the 6th largest ethnic minority in People's Republic of China. They live in Wuling Mountains, straddling the common borders of Hunan, Hubei and...
x Xibe Lansdell-1885-p211-Sibo-military-colonists Tungusic peoples    
The Xibe or Sibo ( Sibe; simplified Chinese: 锡伯; traditional Chinese: 錫伯; pinyin: Xībó) are a Tungusic ethnic group living mostly in northeast China and Xinjiang. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic...
x Va people       Yunnan
The Va nationality (Va: Vāx, Burmese: ဝလူမျိုး [wa̰ lùmjóʊ]; Chinese: 佤族; pinyin: Wǎzú) lives mainly in Northern Burma, in the northern part of Shan and eastern Kachin States, near and along the border with China. Their defacto capital is Pangkham...
Shan State
x Manchu Manchus dressed as royal family Chinese   North Korea
The Manchus (Manchu: Manju; simplified Chinese: 满族; traditional Chinese: 滿族; pinyin: Mǎnzú) are an ethnic minority of China who originated in Manchuria (northeastern China). For centuries, the Manchu ethnicity has acculturated with the majority Han...
Tungusic peoples Canada
Japan
Heilongjiang
Siberia
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x Yao people A Yao woman     China
The Yao nationality (its great majority branch is also known as Mien; Traditional Chinese: 瑤族, Simplified Chinese: 瑶族, Pinyin: Yáo zú; Vietnamese: người Dao) is a government classification for various minorities in China. They form one of the 55...
x Li people        
The Li (黎; pinyin: Lí) or Hlai are a minority ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group. Divided into the five branches of the Qi, Ha, Run...
x Tu people The Masked Dance      
The Monguor (Chinese: 蒙古尔) or Tu people (Chinese: 土族, also 土昆), White Mongol/Chagan Mongol (察罕蒙古尔) are one of the 56 officially recognized ethnic groups in the People's Republic of China. The "Tu" ethnic category was created in the 1950s. The total...
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