Khond The Konds are a tribal group found in the hills and jungles of Orissa in eastern India. The name Kond (also Khond, Kondh, or Kandha) translates as “mountaineer” and probably comes from the Dravidian word konda meaning “hill.” The Konds refer to themselves in their own tongue as Ku. Today, Konds fall into two […]
Categorie: Tribes
Pa-O & Kayan (Myanmar)
Pa-O The Pa-O is the seventh largest ethnic nationality in Burma. The Pa’O settled in the Thaton region of present-day Myanmar around 1000 B.C. Historically, the Pa’O wore colorful clothing until King Anawratha defeated the Mon King, Makuta of Thaton. The Pa’O were enslaved and forced to wear indigo-dyed clothing to signify their status. The […]
Mennonites & Amish (Canada & USA)
The Mennonites are members of certain Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland (which today is a province of the Netherlands). Through his writings, Simons articulated and formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders. The early teachings of the Mennonites were founded on the belief […]
Guna (Panama)
The Guna, known as Kuna prior to an orthographic reform in 2010, and historically as Cuna, are an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. The Congreso General de la Nación Gunadule since 2010 promotes the spelling Guna. In the Kuna language, they call themselves Dule or Tule, meaning “people”, and the name of the language […]
Li (China)
The Li or Hlai are a Kra–Dai speaking ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group. Divided into the five branches of the Qi (Gei), Ha, Run (Zwn), Sai (Tai, Jiamao), and Meifu (Moifau), the Li have their […]
Native Peruvians
Indigenous peoples in Peru, or Native Peruvians, comprise a large number of ethnic groups who inhabit territory in present-day Peru. Indigenous cultures developed here for thousands of years before the arrival of Spaniards in 1532. In 2017, the 5,972,606 indigenous people formed about 25.7% of the total population of Peru. At the time of the […]
Tofinu (Benin)
Tofinu (Benin) Indigenous people of Togo and Benin who live in houses on piles in lakes. Ganvie is a lake village in Benin, Africa lying in Lake Nokoué, near Cotonou. With a population of around 20,000 people, it is probably the largest lake village in Africa. The village was created in the sixteenth or seventeenth […]
Maasai (Tanzania)
Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They are among the best known local populations due to their residence near the many game parks of the African Great Lakes, and their distinctive customs and dress. The Maasai speak the Maa language, a member of the Nilo-Saharan family […]
Daasanach, Hamar, Karo, Konso & Mursi (Ethiopia)
Daasanach Also known as Geleb tribe, living in the south of Ethopia near Omorate The Daasanach are also called Marille especially by their neighbours, the Turkana of Kenya. The Daasanach are traditionally pastoralists, but in recent years have become primarily agropastoral. Having lost the majority of their lands over the past fifty years or so, […]
Dao & Hmong (Vietnam)
An ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. (Pictures taken in 2001) Tuan Giao Sapa Cau Cau
The State Visits - Tribes 