Native Peoples of the World

Mesa Verde Publishing/M.E. Sharpe
Entry Assignment List, May 15, 2010

This three­volume encyclopedia, edited by Steven L. Danver and associate editors Marc Becker, Patit Mishra,
Barbara Bennett Peterson, Hakeem Tijani, and Harald Haarmann; and to be published by the renowned
reference publisher M.E. Sharpe, will examine the complex relationships between the world's indigenous groups
and the societies that surround them. Of particular interest will be borderlands issues that arise when indigenous
groups are either migratory across international borders or have territories that span international borders. It will
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Table of Contents

Entry wds_asg status sort1 sort2

General Introduction 2,500 Assigned 0­Front ­
.Region Introduction ­ Africa 5,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Acholi 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Afar 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Agaw 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Akan 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Amhara 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Anuak 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Anyi 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Asante 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Baganda 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Bagwere 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Bakiga 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Bamana 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Bamileke 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Bamum 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Baule 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Bemba 500 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Berber 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Bertat 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Betsileo 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Bobo 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Borana 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Bwa 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Chagga 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Chokwe 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Dagomba 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Dan 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Dinka 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Diomande 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Dir (clan) 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Dogon 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Dyula 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Eket 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Fang 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Fulani 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Gonja 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Gumuz 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Gurage 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Hausa 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Haya 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Hedareb 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Hehe 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Hutu 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Ibibio 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Idoma 500 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Igbo 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Ijo 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Jopadhola 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Kabre 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Kalenjin 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Kamba 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Kaonde 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Karamojong 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Kikuyu 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Kisii 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Kongo 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Kuba 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Kunama 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Kunda 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Laka 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Lamba 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Lango 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Lega 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Lobi 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Luba 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Lugbara 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Luhya 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Luluwa 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Lumbu 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Luo 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Luunda 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Maasai 500 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Makonde 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Makua 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Mbole 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Mende 500 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Merina 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Meru 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Mossi 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Ndebele 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Ngbaka 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Ngoni 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Nuba 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Nubians 500 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Nuer 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Nuna 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Nyakyusa 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Nyamwezi 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Nyiha 500 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Oromo 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Pende 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Pokot 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Rashaida 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Rundi 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Saho 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Sakalava 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Samburu 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Senufo 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Shambaa 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Shangaan 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Shona 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Sidama 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Somali 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Songye 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Sukuma 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Swahili 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Tabwa 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Tigre 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Tigrinya 2,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Tumbuka 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Turkana 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Tutsi 1,000 1­Groups 1­Africa
Urhobo 500 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
We 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Wolof 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Yaka 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Yao 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Yombe 500 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Yoruba 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Zaramo 500 1­Groups 1­Africa
Zulu 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 1­Africa
Zulu (sidebar): Shaka 450 1­Groups 1­Africa
.Region Introduction ­ Central and

South America 5,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America

Amuzgo 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Asháninka 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Awá 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Aymara 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Ayoreo 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Bora 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Bororo 500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Bribri  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Chinantec  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Chontal de Oaxaca  500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Chorotega  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Cofán 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Education (sidebar): Dolores

Cacuango 450 1­Groups 2­Central and South America

Embera 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Enxet 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Galibi 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Garífuna  1,000 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Guambiano 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Guaraní 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Huastec 500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Huave  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Huichol language  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Intro­Central and South America

(sidebar): Indigenismo 450 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America

Jivaroan 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Kichwa 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Kichwa (sidebar): Luis Macas 450 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Kuna 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Lacandónes 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Lenca  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Makuxi 500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Mapuche 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Maya 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Maya (sidebar): Caste War 450 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Maya (sidebar): Tecun Uman 450 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Mayo people  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Miskito  2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Mixe  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Mixtec  2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Nahua  2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Nasa 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Ngäbere 1,000 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Otomí 500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
P'urhépecha  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Páez 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Páez (sidebar): Quintin Lame 450 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Pame  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Pech  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Quechua 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Quechua (sidebar): Rigoberta

Menchu 450 1­Groups 2­Central and South America

Quichua 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Rama  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Secoya 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Shuar  500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Sumu­Mayangna 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Tarahumara  2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Ticuna 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Tlapaneco 500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Tolupan  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Totonac  500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Tukano 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Tupi 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Tzeltal  1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Tzotzil  1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
U'wa 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Urarina 500 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Waorani 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Warao 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Wayuu 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Wichí 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Yanomami 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Yaqui  2,000 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Yora 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Yucatec Maya  500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Zápara 500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Zapotec 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
Zoque  500 Assigned 1­Groups 2­Central and South America
.Region Introduction ­ East

Asia/Oceania 5,000 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania

Ainu 500 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Akha 500 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Aleut 500 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Altay 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Ami 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Andaman Islanders 500 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Bajau 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Balinese 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Burmese 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Burmese (sidebar): Mon script 450 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Cambodian 2,000 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Cambodians (sidebar): Angkor Wat 450 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Chamorros 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Chams 500 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Chuang of Kwangsi 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Chukchi 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Chukotko­Kamchatkan 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Crimean Tatars 500 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Eskimo 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Han 2,000 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Hawaiians 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Hawaiians (sidebar): King

Kamehameha 450 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania

His­Hsia 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Indigenous Australians 2,000 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Indigenous Australians (sidebar):

Bradshaw Paintings 450 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania

Indonesians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Jurchen (or Ju­chen) Tungusic

ancestors of the Manchus 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania

Kamchadal 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Kanaks 500 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Ket 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Khakas 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Khitan 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Koryo 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Laotian 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Lapita 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Li people 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Liao 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Malay 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Malay (sidebar): Malayo­Polynesian

languages 450 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania

Manchus 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Māori 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Melanesians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Melanesians (sidebar): Kava

(traditional drink) 450 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania

Micronesians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Micronesians (sidebar): Tattooing 450 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Montagnards 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Moriori 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Negrito 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Nivkh 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Okinawans 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Paekche 2,000 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Paekche (sidebar): Koryo kingdom

935­1392 450 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania

Papuans 2,000 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Papuans (sidebar): Head Hunting 450 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Payi peoples 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Polynesians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Polynesians (sidebar): Ocean

navigation 450 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania

Ryukyuans 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Samoyedic 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Tasmanoids 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Thai 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Tungusic 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Turfan 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Tuvans 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Ugric 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Uighurs (Turkish) 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Uzbek 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Vietnamese 2,000 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Vietnamese (sidebar): Caves of Pho­

Binh­Gia 450 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania

West Irian Peoples 500 Assigned 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Xiongnu 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Yakuts 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Yi 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
Yueh­chih (Kushans) 500 1­Groups 3­East Asia/Oceania
.Region Introduction ­ Europe 5,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Albanians 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Armenians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Azeri (Aserbaijanians) 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Basques 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Belorussians 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Bosniaks 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Bosniaks (sidebar): Bogumilism 450 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Bretons 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Bulgarians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Catalans 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Cossacks 1,000 1­Groups 4­Europe
Croats 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Czechs 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Danes 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Dutch 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
English 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Estonians 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Faroese 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Finns 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Flemings 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
French 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Frisians 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Friulians 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Galicians  500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Georgians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Germans 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Greeks 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Greenlanders 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Hungarians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Icelanders 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Irish 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Italians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Kalmyks 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Karaims 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Karelians 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Kashubs 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Komi 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Ladinians 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Latvians 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Lithuanians 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Livonians 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Luxembourgers 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Macedonians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Maltese 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Moldavians 1,000 1­Groups 4­Europe
Montenegrins 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Norwegians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Norwegians (sidebar): Viking

Raiders 450 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe

Ossetes 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Poles 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Portuguese 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Provençals 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Rhaetoromans (Rumantschs) 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Roma and Sinti (Gypsies) 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Romanians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Russians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Sami (Sámi; older name: Lapps) 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Sardinians 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Scots, Highland 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Scots, Lowland 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Serbs 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Slovaks 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Slovenes 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Sorbs 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Spaniards (= Castilians) 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Swedes 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Tatars (Volga Tatars) 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Ukrainians 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Walloons 500 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
Welsh 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 4­Europe
.Region Introduction ­ North

America 5,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America

Abenaki 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Algonquian 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Apache 2,000 1­Groups 5­North America
Apache (sidebar): Geronimo 450 1­Groups 5­North America
Arapahoe 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Assiniboine 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Athabascan 1,000 1­Groups 5­North America
Blackfoot 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Caddo 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Cayuga 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Cherokee 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Cherokee (sidebar): Mankiller,

Wilma 450 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America

Cheyenne 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Chickasaw 1,000 1­Groups 5­North America
Chippewa 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Choctaw 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Chumash 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Colville 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Comanche 1,000 1­Groups 5­North America
Cree 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Crow 1,000 1­Groups 5­North America
Diegueño 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Gabrieleño 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Haida 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
HaliwaSaponi 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Havasupai 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Hoopa 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Hopi 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Houma 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Hualapai 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Huron 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Inuit 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Inuit (sidebar): Nunavut 450 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Inupiat 1,000 1­Groups 5­North America
Iowa 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Juaneño 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Karuk 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Kickapoo 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Kiowa 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Klamath 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Kootenai 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Lenape 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Luiseño 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Lumbee 2,000 1­Groups 5­North America
Lummi 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Maidu 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Menominee 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Menominee (sidebar): Termination 450 1­Groups 5­North America
Métis 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
MeWuk 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Miami 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Micmac 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Modoc 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Modoc (sidebar): Captain Jack 450 1­Groups 5­North America
Mohawk 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Mohawk (sidebar): Tekakwitha,

Kateri 450 1­Groups 5­North America

Montagnais 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Muscogee (Creek) 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Narragansett 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Navajo 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Navajo (sidebar): Long Walk 450 1­Groups 5­North America
Nez Perce 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Odawa 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Omaha 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Oneida 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Onondaga 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Onondaga (sidebar): Hiawatha 450 1­Groups 5­North America
Osage 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Paiute 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Paiute (sidebar): Ghost Dance 450 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Pawnee 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Pequot 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Pima 1,000 1­Groups 5­North America
Pomo 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Ponca 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Potawatomi 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Powhatan 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Powhatan (sidebar): Pocahontas 450 1­Groups 5­North America
Pueblo 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Sac and Fox 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Salish 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Seminole 1,000 1­Groups 5­North America
Seminole (sidebar): Osceola 450 1­Groups 5­North America
Seneca 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Seneca (sidebar): League of the

Iroquois 450 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America

Shawnee 1,000 1­Groups 5­North America
Shoshone 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Shoshone­Bannock 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Sioux 2,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Sioux (sidebar): Sitting Bull 450 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Tlingit 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Tohono O’Odham 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Tsimshian 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Tuscarora 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Ute 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Wampanoag 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Winnebago 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Yakama 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Yavapai 500 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Yokuts 500 1­Groups 5­North America
Yup’ik 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 5­North America
Yurok 500 1­Groups 5­North America
.Region Introduction ­ South

Asia/Middle East 5,000 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East

Agariya 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Aka 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Aramean­Syriac 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Assyrians 1,000 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Asur 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Banjara 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Bedoun tribes 1,000 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Beharis 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Beja and Dom 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Beluci 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Bhattra 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Bhil 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Bhuinya 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Bhumia 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Bhumij 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Bhunjia 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Bhutia 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Binjhal 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Bodo 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Bonda 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Chakhesang 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Chakma 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Chaldeans  500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Chaudhri 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Cholanaickan 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Circassians 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Desua Bhumji 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Dharua Gond 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Dhodia 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Durzi 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Gadaba 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Garo 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Gond 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Hajong 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Hill Pulaya 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Hill Reddis 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Ho 1,000 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Juang 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kaffirs 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kandha Gauda 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kharia 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Khasi 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Khond 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kisan 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kol 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kolha 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Koli 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kond 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Konda Dhoras 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Konda Kapus 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kondadora 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kondh 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kotia 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kuki 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kulis 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Kurds 2,000 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Lahu 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Lepcha 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Lodha 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Magh 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Maruni 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Meena 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Mirdha 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Mizo 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Mongols of Afghanistan 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Munda 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Naga tribes 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Nayaks 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Nusayri 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Oraon 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Palestinians 2,000 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Paniyan 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Pardhi 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Parenga 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Parja 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Paroja 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Paşhtun 2,000 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Porja 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Reddi Dhoras 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Santal 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Saora 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Savar 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Sudanese 1,000 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Syriac 1,000 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Tali 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Tamang 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Thakur 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Turkman 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Valmiki 500 Assigned 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Wanniyala­Aetto 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Zeliang 500 1­Groups 6­South Asia/Middle East
Botswana 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 1­Africa
Burundi 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Cameroon 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Comoros 500 2­Countries 1­Africa
Congo 1,500 2­Countries 1­Africa
Djibouti 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Equatorial Guinea 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Eritrea 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Ethiopia 1,500 Assigned 2­Countries 1­Africa
Kenya 1,500 Assigned 2­Countries 1­Africa
Libya 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Madagascar 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Malawi 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Morocco 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Mozambique 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Namibia 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Nigeria 1,500 Assigned 2­Countries 1­Africa
Rwanda 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 1­Africa
Somalia 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
South Africa 1,500 Assigned 2­Countries 1­Africa
South Africa (sidebar): Mandela,

Nelson 450 Assigned 2­Countries 1­Africa

Sudan 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Sudan (sidebar): Darfur Genocide 450 Assigned 2­Countries 1­Africa
Tanzania 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Tonga 500 2­Countries 1­Africa
Tunisia 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Uganda 1,000 2­Countries 1­Africa
Zambia 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 1­Africa
Argentina 500 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Belize 1,000 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Bolivia 1,000 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Bolivia (sidebar): Evo Morales 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Bolivia (sidebar): Katarismo 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Bolivia (sidebar): Tupac Katari 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Brazil 1,500 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Brazil (sidebar): COICA 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Brazil (sidebar): Rainforests 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Chile 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Colombia 1,000 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Colombia (sidebar): ONIC 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Cuba 500 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Dominican Republic/Haiti 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Ecuador 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Ecuador (sidebar): CONAIE 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
El Salvador 1,000 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
El Salvador (sidebar): 1932 El

Salvador Matanza 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America

Guatemala 4,000 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Guatemala (sidebar): Guerrilla Army

of the Poor (EGP) 450 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America

Guatemala (sidebar): Las Casas,

Bartolome de 450 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America

Honduras 1,000 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Mexico (sidebar): Juárez, Benito 450 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Mexico (sidebar): Zapata, Emiliano 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Nicaragua 1,000 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Panama 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Paraguay 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Peru 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Peru (sidebar): AIDESEP 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Peru (sidebar): Tupac Amaru 450 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Quechua (sidebar): Felipe Guaman

Poma de Ayala 450 Assigned 2­Countries 2­Central and South America

Venezuela 1,500 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Venezuela (sidebar): Guaicaipuro 450 2­Countries 2­Central and South America
Australia 4,000 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Australia (sidebar): Uluru (Ayres

Rock) 450 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania

China 4,000 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
China (sidebar): Great Wall of China 450 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Fiji 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Indonesia 1,500 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Indonesia (sidebar): Trance Dance 450 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Japan 1,000 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Laos 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Malaysia 1,500 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
New Zealand 1,500 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Papua New Guinea 4,000 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Philippines 1,500 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Samoa 500 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Sweden 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Tahiti 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Taiwan 1,500 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Thailand 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 3­East Asia/Oceania
Algeria 500 2­Countries 4­Europe
Finland 1,000 2­Countries 4­Europe
France 1,000 2­Countries 4­Europe
Norway 500 2­Countries 4­Europe
Russia 1,500 2­Countries 4­Europe
Spain 1,000 2­Countries 4­Europe
Bahamas 500 2­Countries 5­North America
Canada 4,000 Assigned 2­Countries 5­North America
Canada (sidebar): Métis 450 Assigned 2­Countries 5­North America
Mexico 1,500 Assigned 2­Countries 5­North America
United States 4,000 Assigned 2­Countries 5­North America
United States (sidebar): Columbus

Quincentennial 450 Assigned 2­Countries 5­North America

United States (sidebar): Pueblo

Revolt 450 Assigned 2­Countries 5­North America

India 4,000 Assigned 2­Countries 6­South Asia/Middle East
Iran 1,000 2­Countries 6­South Asia/Middle East
Iraq 1,000 2­Countries 6­South Asia/Middle East
Iraq (sidebar): Kurdish Genocide 450 Assigned 2­Countries 6­South Asia/Middle East
Israel 1,000 2­Countries 6­South Asia/Middle East
Myanmar 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 6­South Asia/Middle East
Syria 1,000 2­Countries 6­South Asia/Middle East
Turkey 1,000 Assigned 2­Countries 6­South Asia/Middle East
Turkey (sidebar): Armenian

Genocide 450 2­Countries 6­South Asia/Middle East

Anthropology 1,500 3­Issues ­
Agriculture 1,500 3­Issues
Anthropology (sidebar): Museums 450 Assigned 3­Issues
Assimilation 4,000 Assigned 3­Issues
Assimilation (sidebar): Syncretism 450 Assigned 3­Issues
Climate Change 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
Colonialism 4,000 3­Issues
Colonialism (sidebar): Micaela

Bastidas Puyucahua 450 3­Issues

Economic Development 4,000 3­Issues
Economic Development (sidebar):

Jose Carlos Mariategui 450 3­Issues

Ecosystem Management 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
Ecosystem Management (sidebar):

Pachamama Alliance 450 3­Issues

Education 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
Genocide 1,500 3­Issues
Hunting and Fishing Rights 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
Indigenous Governments 4,000 Assigned 3­Issues
Indigenous Identity 4,000 Assigned 3­Issues
Indigenous Identity (sidebar): SAIIC 450 3­Issues
Indigenous People and the UN

(sidebar): Patzcuaro Conference 450 Assigned 3­Issues

Indigenous People and the United

Nations 4,000 Assigned 3­Issues

Industrial Development 1,000 3­Issues
Information Technology 1,000 Assigned 3­Issues
International Policy 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
International Policy (sidebar):

Indigenous Summits 450 3­Issues

Land Rights 4,000 Assigned 3­Issues
Language 4,000 3­Issues
Literature 4,000 3­Issues
Literature (sidebar): Jose Maria

Arguedas 450 3­Issues

Logging Rights 1,000 3­Issues
Media 1,500 3­Issues
Migration 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
Military Service 1,000 3­Issues
Military Service (sidebar): Iwo Jima 450 3­Issues
Mining 1,000 3­Issues
Mining (sidebar): Potosi 450 Assigned 3­Issues
Missionary Activities 1,500 3­Issues
Native Non­Governmental

Organizations 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues

Oil and Mineral Rights 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
Peyotism 1,000 Assigned 3­Issues
Political Discrimination 1,500 3­Issues
Political Participation 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
Political Participation (sidebar):

Pachakutik 450 3­Issues

Poverty 4,000 Assigned 3­Issues
Racism 4,000 3­Issues
Reemerging People Groups 1,500 3­Issues
Religion (Indigenous) 4,000 3­Issues
Religion (sidebar): de Landa, Diego 450 Assigned 3­Issues
Relocation 1,500 3­Issues
Relocation (sidebar): Trail of Tears 450 3­Issues
Repatriation 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
Revolts 4,000 3­Issues
Revolts (sidebar): Fernando

Daquilema 450 3­Issues

Sacred Sites 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
Self­determination 4,000 Assigned 3­Issues
Social Customs 1,500 Assigned 3­Issues
Social Customs (sidebar): Khipus 450 Assigned 3­Issues
Social Discrimination 1,500 3­Issues
Sustainable Development 1,000 Assigned 3­Issues
Urbanization 1,000 Assigned 3­Issues
Violence 1,000 3­Issues
Warfare 1,000 3­Issues
Water Rights 1,500 3­Issues
Women’s Rights 4,000 Assigned 3­Issues
Youth 1,000 Assigned 3­Issues