This work examines the world's indigenous peoples, their cultures, the countries in which they reside, and the issues that impact these groups. It highlights the complex relationships between native groups and the physical and social environments in which they live.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: Native Peoples of the World—Groups, Cultures, Contemporary Issues
• A-Z Entries
• Abenaki
• Abkhazians (Abkhaz)
• Acholi
• Africa (Overview)
• Agriculture
• Ainu
• Akan
• Akha
• Albanians
• Aleut
• Algonquian
• Altay
• Amhara
• Amuzgo
• Andaman Islanders
• Anthropology
• Apache
• Arapaho
• Argentina
• Armenians
• Asante
• Asháninka
• Assimilation
• Assiniboine
• Assyrians
• Athabascan
• Australia
• Australian Aborigines
• Awá
• Aymara
• Ayoreo
• Azerbaijanis (Azeri)
• Baganda
• Bagwere
• Bajau
• Balinese
• Bamileke
• Banda
• Banjara
• Bashkir
• Basques
• Baule
• Bedouin Tribes
• Belize
• Belorussians
• Bemba
• Berber
• Bhil
• Bhuinya
• Bhumia
• Binjhal
• Blackfeet
• Blackfoot
• Bodo
• Bolivia
• Bonda
• Borana
• Bororo
• Bosniaks
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Bretons
• Bulgarians
• Burmese
• Burundi
• Caddo
• Cambodians
• Cameroon
• Canada
• Castilians
• Catalans
• Cayuga
• Central African Republic
• Central and South America (Overview)
• Chaldeans
• Chamorros
• Chams
• Chechens
• Cherokee
• Cheyenne
• Chickasaw
• Chile
• China
• Chippewa
• Choctaw
• Chontal de Oaxaca
• Chukchi
• Chukotko-Kamchatkan
• Chumash
• Chuvash
• Circassians
• Climate Change
• Cofán
• Colombia
• Colonialism
• Colville
• Comanche
• Comoros
• Congo, Democratic Republic of the
• Corsicans
• Cossacks
• Cree
• Croats
• Crow
• Cuba
• Cypriots
• Czechs
• Dagomba
• Dan
• Danes
• Dayak
• Dinka
• Djibouti
• Dogon
• Dominican Republic and Haiti
• Dutch
• Dyula
• East Asia and Oceania (Overview)
• Economic Development
• Ecosystem Management
• Ecuador
• Education
• Eket
• El Salvador
• Embera
• English
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Eskimo
• Estonians
• Ethiopia
• Europe (Overview)
• Faroese
• Fiji
• Finland
• Finns
• Flemish
• France
• French
• Frisians
• Friulians
• Fulani
• Gadaba
• Gagauz
• Galicians
• Garífuna
• Garo
• Gbaya
• Genocide
• Georgians
• Germans
• Germany
• Globalization
• Gond
• Gonja
• Greeks
• Greenlanders
• Guambiano
• Guaraní
• Guatemala
• Gumuz
• Gurage
• Guyana
• Haida
• Hajong
• Han
• Hausa
• Havasupai
• Hawaiians
• Hazaras
• Hehe
• Himba
• Ho
• Honduras
• Hoopa
• Hopi
• Houma
• Hualapai
• Huastec
• Huave
• Huichol
• Hungarians
• Hunting and Fishing Rights
• Huron
• Hutu
• Ibibio
• Icelanders
• Idoma
• Igbo
• Ijo
• India
• Indigenous Government
• Indigenous Identity
• Indonesia
• Indonesians
• Industrial Development
• International Policies and Conventions
• Inuit
• Iowa
• Iran
• Iraq
• Irish
• Israel
• Italians
• Japan
• Jews, European
• Juang
• Jurchen
• Kaffirs
• Kalenjin
• Kalinago
• Kalmyks
• Kamchadal
• Kanaks
• Karaims
• Karamojong
• Karelians
• Kashubs
• Kazakhs
• Kenya
• Ket
• Kharia
• Khasi
• Khitan
• Khond
• Kichwa
• Kickapoo
• Kikuyu
• Kiowa
• Kisan
• Klamath
• Kolha
• Koli
• Komi
• Konda Reddis
• Kongo
• Kootenai
• Kuba
• Kuki
• Kuna
• Kurds
• Kyrgyz
• Lacandónes
• Ladinians
• Land Rights
• Language
• Lao
• Laos
• Lapita
• Latvians
• Lega
• Lenape
• Lenca
• Lepcha
• Liao
• Libya
• Literature
• Lithuanians
• Livonians
• Lodha
• Logging Rights
• Luba
• Luhya
• Luiseño
• Luluwa
• Lumbee
• Lummi
• Luo
• Luxembourgers
• Maasai
• Macedonians
• Madagascar
• Magh
• Malawi
• Malay
• Malaysia
• Maltese
• Manchu
• Maori
• Mapuche
• Mari
• Maya
• Mayo
• Mbole
• Media
• Meena
• Melanesians
• Mende
• Menominee
• Merina
• Métis
• Mexico
• Miami
• Micmac
• Micronesians
• Migration
• Military Service
• Mining
• Mirdha
• Miskito
• Missionary Activities
• Miwok
• Mixtec
• Mizo
• Modoc
• Mohawk
• Moldovans
• Mongols
• Montagnais
• Montagnards
• Montenegrins
• Moriori
• Morocco
• Mossi
• Mozambique
• Munda
• Muscogee (Creek)
• Myanmar
• Naga
• Nahua
• Namibia
• Narragansett
• Nasa
• Navajo
• Ndebele
• Negrito
• New Zealand
• Nez Perce
• Ngbaka
• Nicaragua
• Nigeria
• Nongovernmental Organizations, Native
• North America (Overview)
• Norway
• Norwegians
• Nubians
• Nyamwezi
• Nyiha
• Occitans
• Odawa
• Oil and Mineral Rights
• Okinawans
• Omaha
• Oneida
• Onondaga
• Oraon
• Oromo
• Osage
• Ossetes
• Otomí
• Paekche
• Paiute
• Palestinians
• Pame
• Panama
• Paniyan
• Papua New Guinea
• Papuans
• Paraguay
• Pardhi
• Paroja
• Pashtun
• Pawnee
• Pende
• Pequot
• Peru
• Peyotism
• Philippines
• Pima
• Pokot
• Poles
• Political Discrimination
• Political Participation
• Polynesians
• Ponca
• Portuguese
• Potawatomi
• Poverty
• Powhatan
• Pueblo
• P'urhépecha
• Quechua
• Quiché
• Racism
• Rama
• Reemergence and Cultural Revival
• Religion
• Relocation
• Repatriation
• Revitalization
• Revolts
• Rhaetoromans (Rumantschs)
• Roma (Gypsies)
• Romanians
• Rundi
• Russia
• Russians
• Rwanda
• Ryukyuans
• Sac and Fox
• Sacred Sites
• Salish
• Sami
• Samoa
• Samoyedic
• San (Bushmen)
• Santal
• Saora
• Sardinians
• Scots, Highland
• Scots, Lowland
• Self-Determination
• Seminole
• Seneca
• Senoufo
• Serbs
• Shawnee
• Shona
• Shoshone
• Shoshone-Bannock
• Shuar
• Sidama
• Sinhalese
• Sioux
• Slovaks
• Slovenes
• Social Customs
• Social Discrimination
• Somali
• Somalia
• Songye
• Sorbs
• South Africa
• South Asia and Middle East (Overview)
• Spain
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan and South Sudan
• Sudanese
• Sukuma
• Sumu-Mayangna
• Sustainable Development
• Swahili
• Sweden
• Swedes
• Syria
• Tahiti
• Taino
• Taiwan
• Taiwanese Aborigines
• Tajiks
• Tamils
• Tanzania
• Tarahumara
• Tatars, Crimean
• Tatars, Volga
• Teso
• Thai
• Thailand
• Ticuna
• Tigrinya
• Tlingit
• Tohono O'odham
• Tonga
• Totonac
• Tsimshian
• Tsonga
• Tukano
• Tungusic
• Tunisia
• Tupi
• Turkana
• Turkey
• Turkmen
• Tuscarora
• Tutsi
• Twa
• Tzeltal and Tzotzil
• Udmurt
• Uganda
• Ukrainians
• United Nations
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• United States
• Urbanization
• Urhobo
• Ute
• Uzbek
• Valmiki
• Venezuela
• Vietnamese
• Violence and Warfare
• Wa
• Walloons
• Wampanoag
• Warao
• Water Rights
• Wayúu
• Welsh
• West Irian Peoples
• Wichí
• Winnebago
• Wolof
• Women's Rights
• Xhosa
• Xi Xia
• Xiongnu
• Yakama
• Yakuts
• Yanomami
• Yao
• Yaqui
• Yavapai
• Yi
• Yombe
• Yoruba
• Youth
• Yucatec Maya
• Yuezhi
• Yup'ik
• Yurok
• Zambia
• Zápara
• Zapotec
• Zeliangrong
• Zulu
• Lahu
• Primary Documents
• Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, International Labour Organization (1957)
• Declaration of Indigenous Peoples of the World (1992)
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007)
• Master Bibliography
• Books
• Web Sites