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List of indigenous peoples

2008/9 Schools Wikipedia Selection. Related subjects: Peoples

This is a selected list of the world's indigenous peoples. For guidelines on what should be included or excluded in this listing, see this article's Talk page.

Note that this is a listing of peoples, groups and communities. It is not a list of individual persons who may be considered or recognised as indigenous.

This list is grouped by region, and sub-region. Note that a particular group may warrant listing under more than one region, either because the group is distributed
in more than one region (example: Inuit in North America and eastern Russia), or there may be some overlap of the regions themselves (that is, the boundaries of
each region are not always clear and some locations may commonly be associated with more than one region).

Europe Arctic Ocean

N. E.
Europe Europe Asia
Northern W. C.
America Europe Europe Central North Asia
Asia
North S. SW. East Asia
America Europe Asia Pacific
N. South Ocean
Caribbean Africa Middle East Asia
Central W. Africa
America
Ocean">Pacific Americas Africa Micronesia
Ocean C. E. Southeast
Africa Africa Asia
Latin
Polynesia America Atlantic Melanesia
Ocean Indian
South Southern Ocean Australasia
America Africa
Oceania

Southern Ocean

Antarctica

Africa
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The continent of Africa, including associated islands such as Madagascar, but excluding Arabia.

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 generally includes the Horn of Africa region and (parts of) surrounding countries.

Acholi: Uganda
Afar: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Agaw: Ethiopia
Akisho: Ethiopia
Alur: Uganda
Ambo: Zambia
Ankole: Uganda
Anuak: Ethiopia
Antalote: Comoros
Arap: Ethiopia
Aushi: Zambia
Aw-Qutub : Ethiopia
Ayoup: Ethiopia
Baganda: Uganda
Bagisu: Uganda
Bagwere: Uganda
Bakiga: Uganda
Bakonjo: Uganda
Bajuni: Somalia
Basoga: Uganda
Batoro: Uganda
Beja: Eritrea
Bemba: Zambia
Benadiri (Reer Hamar): Somalia
Bertat: Ethiopia
Betsileo: Madagascar
Bilen: Eritrea
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Bisa: Zambia
Borana: Ethiopia
Bravanese: Somalia
Bunyoro: Uganda
Daasanach: Ethiopia
Cafre: Comoros
Chagga: Tanzania
Chewa: Malawi
Chikunda: Zambia
Chokwe: Mozambique, Zambia
Chopi: Mozambique
Cishinga: Zambia
Dir (clan) : Ethiopia
Dorze: Ethiopia
Gadabuursi: Ethiopia
Garhajis: Ethiopia
Garre: Ethiopia
Gova: Zambia
Gumuz: Ethiopia
Gurage: Ethiopia
Habar Tol Jaalo : Ethiopia
Hamer people : Ethiopia
Haya: Tanzania
Hedareb: Eritrea
Hehe: Tanzania
Hutu: Burundi, Rwanda
Ila: Zambia
Inamwanga: Zambia
Irir Samaale: Ethiopia
Iteso: Uganda
Iwa: Zambia
Jeberti: Ethiopia
Jopadhola: Uganda
Kabende: Zambia
Kalenjin: Kenya
Kamba: Kenya
Kaonde: Zambia
Karamojong: Uganda
Kichepo: Ethiopia

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Kikuyu: Kenya
Kisii: Kenya
Kosa: Zambia
Kunama: Eritrea
Kunda: Zambia
Kwandi: Zambia
Kwandu: Zambia
Kwangwa: Zambia
Lala: Zambia
Lamba: Zambia
Lango: Uganda
Legas: Ethiopia
Lenje: Zambia
Leya: Zambia
Lima: Zambia
Liyuwa: Zambia
Lomwe: Malawi
Lozi: Zambia
Luano: Zambia
Lucazi: Zambia
Lugbara: Uganda
Luhya: Kenya
Lumbu: Zambia
Lunda: Zambia
Lundwe: Zambia
Lungu: Zambia
Luo: Kenya, Tanzania
Luvale: Zambia
Luunda: Zambia
Maasai: Kenya and Tanzania
Makoa: Comoros
Makoma: Zambia
Makonde: Mozambique
Makua: Mozambique
Mambwe: Zambia
Manyika: Mozambique
Marehan: Ethiopia
Mashasha: Zambia
Mashi: Zambia

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Mbowe: Zambia
Mbukushu: Zambia
Mbumi: Zambia
Mbunda: Zambia
Mbwela: Zambia
Merina: Madagascar
Meru: Kenya
Mukulu: Zambia
Mulonga: Zambia
Munyoyaya: Kenya
Mursi: Ethiopia
Nara: Eritrea
Ndau: Mozambique
Ndembu: Zambia
Ng'umbo: Zambia
Ngonde: Malawi
Ngoni: Malawi
Nguni: Mozambique
Nkoya: Zambia
Nsenga: Zambia
Nuba: Sudan
Nubians: Sudan
Nuer: Ethiopia
Nyakyusa: Tanzania
Nyamwezi: Tanzania
Nyangatom: Ethiopia
Nyanja: Malawi, Zambia
Nyengo: Zambia
Nyiha: Zambia
Ogaden (clan): Ethiopia
Ogiek: Kenya
Oimatsaha: Comoros
Oromo: Ethiopia
Qemant: Ethiopia
Rahanweyn: Somalia
Rashaida: Eritrea
Rer Bare: Ethiopia
Rundi: Uganda
Rwanda: Uganda

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Saho: Eritrea
Sakalava: Comoros
Sala: Zambia
Seba: Zambia
Sena: Malawi, Mozambique
Senga: Zambia
Shangana: Mozambique
Shanjo: Zambia
Shanqella: Ethiopia
Sheikhaal: Ethiopia
Shila: Zambia
Shona: Mozambique
Sidama people : Ethiopia
Simaa: Zambia
Soli: Zambia
Somali: Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia
Subiya: Zambia
Sukuma: Tanzania
Suri: Ethiopia
Surma: Ethiopia
Swaka: Zambia
Tabwa: Zambia
Tambo: Zambia
Tigre: Eritrea
Tigray-Tigrinya people (Tigrinya): Eritrea
Tigray-Tigrinya people (Tigray): Ethiopia
Toka: Zambia
Totela: Zambia
Tumbuka: Malawi, Zambia
Tirma: Ethiopia
Tonga: Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia
Tutsi: Burundi, Rwanda
Twa, (Pygmy): Burundi, Rwanda, Zambia,Uganda
Unga: Zambia
Wandya: Zambia
Welayta: Ethiopia
Welega Oromo: Ethiopia
Yao: Malawi, Mozambique
Yombe: Zambia

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Zay: Ethiopia
Zulu: Mozambique

North Africa

North Africa generally includes African countries with borders on the Mediterranean Sea and northern Red Sea and Atlantic Ocean, bounded largely by the
Sahara Desert to the south.

Berber (or Amazigh): (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya)

Tuareg: (southern Sahara and Sahel regions of Algeria, Libya, Morocco)

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.

Bushmen: Kalahari Desert, Botswana/Namibia

Khoikhoi: South Africa

Namaqua: South 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.

Baka: Cameroon, Congo (Brazzaville), Gabon, and Central African Republic

Balengue: Equatorial Guinea
Benga: Equatorial Guinea
Bubi: Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea
Bujeba: Equatorial Guinea
Combe or Ndowe: Equatorial Guinea
Duala people: Cameroon
Fang: Equatorial Guinea
Ogoni people: Nigeria
Tuareg: the Sahel
Toubou: southern Sahara

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Americas
the Americas is the continent (or supercontinent) comprising North and South America, and associated islands.

The Caribbean

the Caribbean, or West Indies, generally includes the island chains of the Caribbean Sea.

Tano: Amerindians who inhabited the Caribbean island of Hispanola, of Arawakan descent.
Galibi
Neo-Tano nations Some scholars distinguish between the Tano and Neo-Tano groups. Neo-Tano groups were also Amerindians of the Antilles islands,
but had distinctive languages and cultural practices that differed from the High Tano. 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.
Lucaya. Based in Cuba and the Bahamas.
Macorix. Hispaniola.
Guanahatabey. Far Western Cuba, at the Guanahacabibes Peninsula.
Eyeri Often called Carib.

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.

Achi' (Mayan people of Guatemala)

Amuzgo ( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Chocho ( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Cocopa ( Baja California, Mexico)
Guarijo ( Sonora, Mexico)
Garfuna (Belize and Honduras)
Kikap ( Coahuila, Mexico)
Paipai ( Baja California, Mexico)
Tepehun ( Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico)
Chontal de Oaxaca (Tequistlatecan people of Oaxaca, Mexico)
Chatino ( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Chichimeca Jonaz ( San Luis Potos, Mexico)
Chinantec ( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Ch'ol (Mayan language of Chiapas Mexico)
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Ch'orti' people (Mayan people of El Salvador)

Chontal Maya (Mayan language of Tabasco, Mexico)
Chuj (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Cochim ( Baja California, Mexico)
Cora People ( Jalisco and Nayarit Mexico)
Cuicatec( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Huastec people ( San Luis Potos, Mexico)
Huave ( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Huichol language ( Jalisco and Nayarit Mexico)
Itza (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Ixcatec ( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Ixil (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Jakaltek people (Mayan people of Guatemala - also called Popt)
Tolupan (Honduras)
Kaqchikel (Mayan people of Guatemala)
K'iche' (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Kiliwa ( Baja California, Mexico)
Kumeyaay ( Baja California, Mexico)
Kuna (people) (Panama)
Lacandn ( Chiapas, Mexico)
Lenca (Honduras and El Salvador)
Mam people (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Matlatzinca ( Mexico (state), Mexico)
Mayo people ( Sonora, Mexico)
Mazahua ( Mexico (state), Mexico)
Mazatec ( Puebla and Oaxaca, Mexico)
Mexicanero ( Durango, Mexico)
Miskito (Honduras and Nicaragua)
Mixe ( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Mixtec ( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Mopan Maya (Mayan people of Guatemala and Belize)
Nahua (Mexico)
Pame ( San Luis Potos, Mexico)
Pech (Honduras)
Pima Bajo ( Chihuahua, Mexico)
Popoloca ( Oaxaca, and Puebla, Mexico)
Poqomchi' (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Poqomam (Mayan people of Guatemala)
P'urhpecha ( Michoacan, Mexico)

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Q'anjob'al (Mayan people of Guatemala)

Q'eqchi' (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Rama (people) Nicaragua
Seri ( Sonora, Mexico)
Sumo (people) (Nicaragua)
Tarahumara ( Chihuahua, Mexico)
Tlapanec people (Me'phaa) ( Guerrero, Mexico)
Tojolabal (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Totonac ( Veracruz and Puebla, Mexico)
Trique ( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Tzeltal ( Chiapas, Mexico)
Tzotzil ( Chiapas, Mexico)
Tz'utujil (Mayan people of Guatemala)
Xinca people (Guatemala)
Yaqui ( Sonora, Mexico)
Yucatec Maya ( Yucatn, Quintana Roo and Campeche Mexico)
Zapotec people ( Oaxaca, Mexico)
Zoque ( Oaxaca and Chiapas Mexico)

North America

North America generally includes Greenland, Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the eastern Aleutian Islands.

Haida: the Pacific north-west coast

Nuu-chah-nulth: the Pacific north-west coast
Innu: Labrador/ Quebec, Canada)
Inuit: Russia/ Alaska/Canada/Greenland
Native Americans in the United States: United States of America, Mexico
Aboriginal peoples of Canada
Secwepemc: British Columbia, Canada
St'at'imc: Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada
Tsimshian: British Columbia

South America

South America generally includes all of the (sub-)continent and islands south of the Isthmus of Panama.

Ashninka: Peru
Aw: eastern Amazonian rainforest, Brazil
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Ayoreo: the Chaco, Paraguay/Bolivia

Bora: Colombia/Peru
Bororo: Mato Grosso, Brazil
Chayahuita: Loreto, Peru
Cocama-Cocamilla: Loreto, Peru
Embera: Colombia/Panam
Enxet: Paraguay
Jivaroan: Loreto and San Martn, Peru
Guaran: Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina
Korubu: Brazil
Kuna: Panama
Makuxi: Brazil/Guyana
Mapuche: Chile/Argentina
Matis: Brazil/Peru
Matss: Brazil/Peru
Nukak: Colombia
Nasa: Colombia Urarina shaman, 1988
Secoya: Loreto, Peru/Ecuador
Tapirape: Brazil
Ticuna: Brazil/Peru/Colombia
Tukano: Colombia
Tupi: Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Argentina
Urarina: Chambira Basin, Loreto Peru
U'wa: Colombia
Yora: Amazon rainforest, southeast Peru
Wich: the Chaco, Argentina/Bolivia
Warao: of Venezuela's Orinoco River delta region.
Wayuu Venezuela/Colombia

Asia
The (sub-)continent of Asia, including related islands, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asian Republics, the Middle East and Arabia.

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.

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Tibetans: Central Asia

East Asia

East Asia generally includes the People's Republic of China (except perhaps province of Qinghai and the western autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang), the
Korean Peninsula, and the associated Pacific islands, principally Japan and Taiwan.

Ainu: Japan, though not yet officially recognized as such by the government; and (until the end of World War II) on Sakhalin Island, Russia
Taiwanese aborigines: the island of Taiwan
main ethnic groups
Ami
Atayal
Bunun
Kavalan
Paiwan
Puyuma
Rukai
Saisiyat
Tao
Thao
Tsou
Truku

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
Sakha:
Tuvans:
Altayans: Titular nation of Altai Republic
Buryats:
Khakas:
Tungus:

South Asia

South Asia generally includes the Indian subcontinental region, the Himalayan states and related islands of the Indian Ocean.

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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.
Jarawa: South Andaman and Middle Andaman
Onge: Little Andaman
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

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)

Akha: The Akha of Thailand, Laos, Myamar and China South East Asia
Degar: The Montagnards of mainland South East Asia
Igorot: Cordillera mountains in Luzon in the Philippines.
Lumad: Mindanao in the Philippines
Mangyan: Mindoro in the Philippines
Negrito: Southeast Asia, 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 the Malay.
Penan: Sarawak, Malaysia
Sakai: Malay peninsula, distinct from Negritos
Tribes of Palawan: Palawan, Philippines

Southwest Asia

Southwest Asia generally includes the region (formerly Persia) westwards of Pakistan, the Arabian peninsula, the Middle East or Levant or Eretz Israel,
Mesopotamia, the Caucasus region and Anatolia.

Assyrians, the Aramaic-speaking minority inhabiting northern Iraq ( Assyrian homeland), northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran.
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Circumpolar North
The Circumpolar North generally includes the lands surrounding the Arctic Circle.

Evenks
Inuit: Greenland, Northern Canada ( Nunavut and Northwest Territories), Alaska, Chukotka (Russia)
Koryaks
Nenets
Khanty
Chukchi
Sami: Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Kola peninsula in Russia
Yukaghirs

Europe
Europe generally refers to the mass of the Eurasian peninsula westwards of the Ural Mountains, the islands of the Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean.

Basques: Northern Spain and Southern France

Crimean Karaites: Crimean Peninsula in Southern Ukraine
Crimean Tatars: Crimean Peninsula in Southern Ukraine
Krymchaks: 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 Norway, Sweden, Finland and Kola peninsula in the Northwest of Russia
Veps: Republic of Karelia, Northwest of Russia

Oceania
Oceania includes most islands of the Pacific Ocean, New Guinea and the continent of Australia.

Australia

Australia includes the continental landmass, and associated islands.

Indigenous Australians: Australia

Torres Strait Islanders: Australia
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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 Irian Jaya and Papua Considered "Indigenous" these people
are a subject to many debates.
Wopkaimin: western PNG, Star Mountains.

Micronesia

Micronesia generally includes the various small island chains of the western and central Pacific.

Chamorros: Guam, Northern Marianas

Polynesia

Polynesia generally includes New Zealand and thus islands of the central and southern Pacific Oceans

Kanaka Maoli: Hawai'i

Maohi: Tahiti
Mori: Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Moriori: Chatham Islands
Rarotongan: Rarotonga
Samoan: Samoa, American Samoa
Fijian: Fiji
Tongan: Tonga

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