This is a partial list of the world's indigenous / aboriginal / native peoples. 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). [edit] Africa The continent of Africa, including associated islands such as Madagascar, but excluding Arabia. [edit] 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. [edit] 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
- Amhara: Ethiopia
- Ankole: Uganda
- Anuak: Ethiopia
- Antalote: Comoros
- Aushi: Zambia
- Aweer: Kenya, Somalia[1]
- Ayoup: Ethiopia
- Baganda: Uganda
- Bagisu: Uganda
- Bagwere: Uganda
- Bakiga: Uganda
- Bakonjo: Uganda
- Basoga: Uganda
- Batoro: Uganda
- Beja: Eritrea
- Bemba: Zambia
- Bertat: Ethiopia
- Betsileo: Madagascar
- Bilen: Eritrea
- Bisa: Zambia
- Borana: Ethiopia
- Bunyoro: Uganda
- Daasanach: Ethiopia
- Cafre: Comoros
- Chagga: Tanzania
- Chewa: Malawi
- Chikunda: Zambia
- Chokwe: Mozambique, Zambia
- Chopi: Mozambique
- Cishinga: Zambia
- Dorze: Ethiopia
- Gova: Zambia
- Gumuz: Ethiopia
- Gurage: Ethiopia
- Hadzabe: Tanzania
- Hamer people: Ethiopia
- Haya: Tanzania
- Hedareb: Eritrea
- Hehe: Tanzania
- Hutu: Burundi, Rwanda
- Ila: Zambia
- Inamwanga: Zambia
- Iteso: Uganda
- Iwa: Zambia
- Jeberti: Ethiopia
- Jopadhola: Uganda
- Kabende: Zambia
- Kalenjin: Kenya
- Kamba: Kenya
- Kaonde: Zambia
- Karamojong: Uganda
- Kichepo: Ethiopia
- Kikuyu: Kenya
- Kisii: Kenya
- Kosa: Zambia
- Kunama: Eritrea
- Kunda: Zambia
- Kwandi: Zambia
- Kwandu: Zambia
- Kwangwa: Zambia
- Lala: Zambia
- Lamba: Zambia
- Lango: Uganda
- 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
- Mashasha: Zambia
- Mashi: Zambia
- Mbowe: Zambia
- Mbukushu: Zambia
- Mbumi: Zambia
- Mbunda: Zambia
- Mbwela: Zambia
- Me'en: Ethiopia
- 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
- Ogiek: Kenya
- Oimatsaha: Comoros
- Oromo: Ethiopia
- Qemant: Ethiopia
- Rashaida: Eritrea
- Rer Bare: Ethiopia
- Rundi: Uganda
- Rwanda: Uganda
- Saho: Eritrea
- Sakalava: Comoros
- Sala: Zambia
- Seba: Zambia
- Sena: Malawi, Mozambique
- Senga: Zambia
- Sengwer: Kenya
- Shangana: Mozambique
- Shanjo: Zambia
- Shanqella: Ethiopia
- Shila: Zambia
- Shona: Mozambique
- Sidama people: Ethiopia
- Simaa: Zambia
- Soli: Zambia
- Subiya: Zambia
- Sukuma: Tanzania
- Suri: 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
- Watha: Kenya
- Welayta: Ethiopia
- Welega Oromo: Ethiopia
- Yao: Malawi, Mozambique
- Yiaku/Yaaku: Kenya
- Yombe: Zambia
- Zay: Ethiopia
- Zulu: South Africa with significant population in Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania
[edit] 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. [edit] 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. [edit] West Africa West Africa generally includes the region bounded by the Sahara Desert to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south. [edit] Americas the Americas is the continent (or supercontinent) comprising North and South America, and associated islands. [edit] The Caribbean the Caribbean, or West Indies, generally includes the island chains of the Caribbean Sea. - Taíno: Amerindians who inhabited the Caribbean island of Hispanola, of Arawakan descent.
- Galibi
- 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;
[edit] 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)
- Bribri (Costa Rica)
- Chocho (Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Cocopa (Baja California, Mexico)
- Guarijío (Sonora, Mexico)
- Garífuna (Belize and Honduras)
- Kikapú (Coahuila, Mexico)
- Paipai (Baja California, Mexico)
- Tepehuán (Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico)
- Chontal de Oaxaca (Tequistlatecan people of Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Chatino (Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Chichimeca Jonaz (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
- Chinantec (Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Ch'ol (Mayan language of Chiapas Mexico)
- Chorotega (Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica)
- Ch'orti' (Mayan people of El Salvador)
- Chontal Maya (Mayan language of Tabasco, Mexico)
- Chuj (Mayan people of Guatemala)
- Cochimí (Baja California, Mexico)
- Cora (Jalisco and Nayarit Mexico)
- Cuicatec(Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Huastec (San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
- Huave (Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Huichol (Jalisco and Nayarit Mexico)
- Itza (Mayan people of Guatemala)
- Ixcatec (Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Ixil (Mayan people of Guatemala)
- Jakaltek (Mayan people of Guatemala - also called Poptí)
- Tolupan (Honduras)
- Kaqchikel (Mayan people of Guatemala)
- K'iche' (Mayan people of Guatemala)
- Kiliwa (Baja California, Mexico)
- Kumeyaay (Baja California, Mexico)
- Kuna (Panama)
- Lacandón (Chiapas, Mexico)
- Lenca (Honduras and El Salvador)
- Maleku (Costa Rica)
- Mam (Mayan people of Guatemala)
- Matlatzinca (Mexico (state), Mexico)
- Mayo (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 Potosí, Mexico)
- Pech (Honduras)
- Pima Bajo (Chihuahua, Mexico)
- Popoloca (Oaxaca, and Puebla, Mexico)
- Poqomchi' (Mayan people of Guatemala)
- Poqomam (Mayan people of Guatemala)
- P'urhépecha (Michoacan, Mexico)
- Q'anjob'al (Mayan people of Guatemala)
- Q'eqchi' (Mayan people of Guatemala)
- Rama Nicaragua
- Seri (Sonora, Mexico)
- Sumo (Nicaragua)
- Tarahumara (Chihuahua, Mexico)
- Tlapanec (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 (Guatemala)
- Yaqui (Sonora, Mexico)
- Yucatec Maya (Yucatán, Quintana Roo and Campeche Mexico)
- Zapotec (Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Zoque (Oaxaca and Chiapas Mexico)
[edit] North America North America generally includes Greenland, Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the eastern Aleutian Islands. [edit] South America South America generally includes all of the (sub-)continent and islands south of the Isthmus of Panama. - Asháninka: Peru
- Awá: eastern Amazonian rainforest, Brazil
- Ayoreo: the Chaco, Paraguay/Bolivia
- Bora: Colombia/Peru
- Bororo: Mato Grosso, Brazil
- Chayahuita: Loreto, Peru
- Cocama-Cocamilla: Loreto, Peru
- Embera: Colombia/Panamá
- Enxet: Paraguay
- Jivaroan: Loreto and San Martín, Peru
- Guaraní: Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina
- Korubu: Brazil
- Kuna: Panama
- Makuxi: Brazil/Guyana
- Mapuche: Chile/Argentina
- Matis: Brazil/Peru
- Matsés: Brazil/Peru
- Nukak: Colombia
- Nasa: Colombia
- 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
- Wichí: the Chaco, Argentina/Bolivia
- Warao: of Venezuela's Orinoco River delta region.
- Wayuu Venezuela/Colombia
The (sub-)continent of Asia, including related islands, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asian Republics, the Middle East and Arabia. [edit] 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. [edit] East Asia East Asia generally includes the People's Republic of China, the Korean Peninsula, and the associated Pacific islands, principally Japan and Taiwan. [edit] North Asia North Asia generally includes the Russian Far East and the northern and eastern parts of Siberia. [edit] South Asia South Asia generally includes the Indian subcontinental region, the Himalayan states and related islands of the Indian Ocean. [edit] Southeast Asia Southeast Asia generally includes the mainland region sometimes known as Indochina, and the Malay archipelago. - Akha: of Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Chinese minority
- Bajau: Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines)
- Dayak of Borneo
- Degar: of Vietnam
- Hmong: of Thailand, Myanmar & Laos
- 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
- Lumad: Mindanao in the Philippines
- Mangyan: Mindoro in the Philippines
- 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 the Malay
- Tribes of Palawan: Palawan, Philippines
- Penan: Sarawak, Malaysia
- Sakai: Malay peninsula
[edit] 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 and Anatolia. [edit] Circumpolar North The Circumpolar North generally includes the lands surrounding the Arctic Circle. [edit] 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. [edit] Oceania Oceania includes most islands of the Pacific Ocean, New Guinea and the continent of Australia. [edit] Australia Australia includes the continental landmass, and associated islands. [edit] 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.
[edit] Micronesia Micronesia generally includes the various small island chains of the western and central Pacific. [edit] Polynesia Polynesia generally includes New Zealand and thus islands of the central and southern Pacific Oceans [edit] See also [edit] Related articles - See all pages that start with indigenous people or indigenous
- ^ Kipuri (2007, p.472)
- ^ Rouse (1992)
- ^ Sawahla & Dloomy (2007, pp.425–433)
- ^ Bachmann (2007, pp.420–424)
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