Settled farming
Fields, terraces, orchards and paddies worked year after year. These are the peoples whose sources describe this way of living.
MundurukuWuy Jugu
🇧🇷 BrazilIndigenous people of the Tapajós river basin in the Brazilian Amazon
About 14,000, Tupi
Manghudмангуд
🇲🇳 Mongolia and 5 moreA Mongol-origin tribe known for founding the Nogai Horde and Manghit dynasty
Mongolic
Banu Khazraj
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 3 moreA South Arabian Arab tribe settled in Medina, known as early supporters of Muhammad
Semitic
Ho-ChunkHoocąk
🇺🇸 United StatesSiouan-speaking Native people of Wisconsin and Nebraska, known for effigy mounds
About 12,000, Siouan
Mentawaisuku Mentawai
🇮🇩 IndonesiaRainforest islanders of the Mentawai Islands, known for tattoos and Arat Sabulungan beliefs
About 64,000, Austronesian
TobaQom
🇦🇷 Argentina and 2 moreA major Indigenous people of the Gran Chaco, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia
About 129,000, Guaicuruan
PicurisP'įwweltha
🇺🇸 United StatesA Tiwa-speaking pueblo in northern New Mexico, known for micaceous pottery
About 83, Kiowa-Tanoan
Narragansett
🇺🇸 United StatesIndigenous people of Rhode Island, known for their ties to Narragansett Bay
About 3,000, Algonquian
WaoraniWao
🇪🇨 EcuadorIndigenous people of Ecuador's Amazon, some living in voluntary isolation
About 4,000, Language isolate
CaddoHasí꞉nay
🇺🇸 United StatesDescendants of mound builders from the Piney Woods of the southern United States
About 6,000, Caddoan
Jicarilla ApacheJicarilla Dindéi
🇺🇸 United StatesSeminomadic Apache people of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado
About 3,000, Southern Athabaskan
Oglala LakotaOglála Lakhóta Oyáte
🇺🇸 United StatesLakota people living mainly on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota
About 47,000, Siouan
MenomineeMamaceqtaw
🇺🇸 United StatesA Native nation rooted in Wisconsin, known for wild rice and forest stewardship
About 9,000, Algonquian
Betawisuku Betawi
🇮🇩 IndonesiaCreole people of Jakarta with a rich blend of Indonesian and foreign roots
About 7 million, Austronesian
Tribe of Joseph
🇮🇱 Israel and 5 moreA major ancient Israelite tribe later divided into Ephraim and Manasseh
Historical, Semitic
Pequot
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of Connecticut, known for survival and revival after near-destruction
About 2,000, Algonquian
Vistulans
🇵🇱 PolandEarly medieval tribe of the western Vistula valley in Lesser Poland
Historical
IowaBáxoje
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of the Midwest, now in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma
About 3,000, Siouan-Catawban
Acomaʔáák’u
🇺🇸 United StatesPueblo people of western New Mexico, living atop a high mesa for centuries
About 3,000, Keresan
KawKaáⁿze
🇺🇸 United StatesNative people of Kansas and Oklahoma, known as the "People of the South Wind"
About 4,000, Siouan-Catawban
AmboneseOrang Ambon
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 moreMixed Austronesian-Melanesian people of Ambon and southwest Seram, Maluku, Indonesia
About 1.6 million, Austronesian
QuapawOgáxpa
🇺🇸 United StatesDhegiha Siouan people from the lower Mississippi and Arkansas River region
About 6,000, Dhegiha Siouan
Tenggeresesuku Tengger
🇮🇩 IndonesiaHindu Javanese people of the Tengger mountains in East Java
Austronesian
Atonisuku Atoni
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 2 moreVillage-based people of Timor known for symbolic house design and duality concepts
About 933,000
HunkpapaHúŋkpapȟa
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreA Lakota division known for their role at Little Bighorn and life at Standing Rock
About 571, Siouan
Banu Ifran
🇩🇿 Algeria and 3 moreA Zenata Berber tribe of North Africa, founders of Tlemcen and rulers in Andalusia
Historical
Mandarsuku Mandar
🇮🇩 IndonesiaSeafaring and farming people of West Sulawesi, Indonesia
About 1 million, Austronesian (South Sulawesi languages, Malayo-Polynesian br
Tohono O'odham
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreDesert-dwelling people of the Sonoran region in Arizona and Sonora
About 30,000
Lingones
🇫🇷 France and 1 moreA Gallic people of the Langres plateau and the Po plain in ancient times
Historical, Celtic
Minahasansuku Minahasa
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 7 moreAustronesian people of North Sulawesi, Indonesia, known for their Christian heritage
About 1.4 million, Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian branch)
Kalina
🇻🇪 Venezuela and 5 moreIndigenous people of the northern coast of South America
About 45,000, Cariban
AsháninkaAshaninka
🇵🇪 Peru and 1 moreIndigenous people of the central Amazonian rainforest of Peru and Brazil
About 99,000, Arawakan
Ayoreo
🇵🇾 Paraguay and 1 moreNomadic hunter-gatherers of the Gran Chaco, some still living in voluntary isolation
About 6,000, Zamucoan
NiasOno Niha
🇮🇩 IndonesiaAustronesian people native to Nias Island, off North Sumatra, Indonesia
About 1 million, Austronesian
Meena
🇮🇳 IndiaA large adivasi community of Rajasthan and nearby states, known for Mandana art
About 5 million
PassamaquoddyPeskotomuhkati
🇺🇸 United States and 1 moreNative people of Maine and New Brunswick, known for fishing and the Wabanaki Confederacy
About 4,000, Algonquian
Iteso
🇺🇬 Uganda and 2 moreNilotic farmers and herders of eastern Uganda and western Kenya
About 2.8 million, Nilotic
Wayana
🇬🇫 French Guiana and 3 moreCarib-speaking people of the Guiana highlands in Brazil, Suriname, and French Guiana
About 2,000, Cariban
Matsés
🇵🇪 Peru and 1 moreIndigenous people of the Amazon between the Javari and Galvez rivers
About 3,000, Panoan
Rashaida
🇪🇷 Eritrea and 2 moreNomadic camel herders of the Red Sea coastal plains in Sudan and Eritrea
About 180,000, Afro-Asiatic
GayoUrang Gayo
🇮🇩 IndonesiaHighland people of Aceh known for oral tradition and unique dances
About 337,000, Austronesian
AtakapaIshak
🇺🇸 United StatesIndigenous bands of the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas
Historical, Language isolate
Agrianes
🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 2 moreAncient Paeonian tribe of the Upper Strymon region
Historical
ApataniTani/Tanii
🇮🇳 IndiaWet rice farmers of the Ziro valley, known for sustainable land use
About 44,000, Tani languages
YaliYali Inap
🇮🇩 IndonesiaHighland Papua people known for shifting cultivation and clan-based society
About 49,000, Trans–New Guinea (Ngalik-Nduga and Mek subgroups)
Montagnard
🇻🇳 VietnamIndigenous peoples of Vietnam's Central Highlands with diverse languages and cultures
About 1 million
Khamtiတဲး ၵံးတီႈ
🇮🇳 India and 2 moreTai-speaking Buddhists of Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar, and China
About 30,000, Tai-Kadai
Wichí
🇦🇷 Argentina and 2 moreIndigenous forest and river people of Argentina and Bolivia
About 56,000, Matacoan