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Kabila

Settled farming

Fields, terraces, orchards and paddies worked year after year. These are the peoples whose sources describe this way of living.

Punan Bah 🇲🇾 Malaysia and 1 moreSwidden farmers and river dwellers of Borneo's central forests About 5,000 Gewisse 🇬🇧 United KingdomEarly Anglo-Saxon tribe in the upper Thames region, founders of Wessex Historical, West Germanic Duwamishdxʷdəwʔabš 🇺🇸 United StatesLushootseed-speaking Coast Salish of the Seattle region About 600, Coast Salish KenyahSuku Dayak Kenyah 🇲🇾 Malaysia and 1 moreSwidden farmers and longhouse dwellers of Borneo's interior forests About 72,000, Austronesian Chachi 🇪🇨 EcuadorRainforest dwellers of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, known for basketwork and river life About 5,000, Barbacoan Beni Hassan 🇲🇷 Mauritania and 3 moreBedouin Arab tribe of Western Sahara, Mauritania, Morocco, and Algeria Arabic NgadaAta Ngada 🇮🇩 IndonesiaMatrilineal farming people of central Flores Island, Indonesia About 290,000, Austronesian Bani Utbahبَنِيّ عُتبَة 🇧🇭 Bahrain and 5 moreArab tribal confederation with roots in Eastern Arabia and Najd Semitic Pamunkey 🇺🇸 United StatesA Native nation on the Pamunkey River, Virginia, with a centuries-old reservation About 430 RejangTun Hejang / Tun Jang 🇮🇩 IndonesiaLargest indigenous group of Bengkulu, Sumatra, with Austronesian roots About 1.3 million, Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) Tacana 🇧🇴 BoliviaAgricultural people of the Bolivian Amazon, known for their traditional ceremonies About 19,000 PeoriaPeewaalia 🇺🇸 United StatesA Native American people of the Illinois Confederation, now in Oklahoma About 4,000, Algonquian Jaffجاف 🇮🇶 Iraq and 1 moreA major Kurdish tribal confederation of the Zagros region About 4 million, Indo-Iranian Banu Thaqif 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 1 moreSettled Arab tribe of Ta'if, key in early Islamic history and Iraq's governance Semitic Isleta PuebloShiewhibak 🇺🇸 United StatesA Southern Tiwa pueblo in New Mexico's Middle Rio Grande Valley About 2,000, Tanoan Cornovii (Midlands) 🇬🇧 United KingdomAn Iron Age and Roman-era Celtic people of the English Midlands and Welsh borders Historical, Celtic Korku 🇮🇳 IndiaA Munda-speaking community of central India, mainly in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra About 1.1 million, Munda WaujaWaujá 🇧🇷 BrazilArawakan-speaking people of the Upper Xingu River in Brazil About 540, Arawakan BunakGaiq 🇹🇱 Timor-Leste and 1 moreMountain people of central Timor speaking a Papuan language About 76,000, Trans–New Guinea (Papuan) Ka'apor 🇧🇷 BrazilForest guardians of Maranhão, Brazil, known for their use of sign language About 2,000, Tupi–Guarani Shinnecock 🇺🇸 United StatesAlgonquian-speaking nation on Long Island, New York, known for wampum and whaling About 1,000, Algonquian Marajoara 🇧🇷 BrazilAncient mound-building society of Marajó Island in the Amazon delta Historical MiknasaImeknasen 🇩🇿 Algeria and 2 moreZenata Berber tribe from the Aurès mountains and Ouarsenis region Historical Doukkala 🇲🇦 MoroccoBerber-Arab tribal confederation of Morocco's Atlantic plains About 360,000, Afro-Asiatic Saraguro 🇪🇨 EcuadorKichwa-speaking Indigenous people of the southern Ecuadorian Andes About 30,000, Quechua Ikpeng 🇧🇷 BrazilIndigenous people of the Xingu Park, Mato Grosso, Brazil About 584, Cariban Banu Amir 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia and 9 moreAn ancient Arab tribal confederation from Najd and Hejaz, now dispersed Historical, Semitic St. Lawrence Iroquoians 🇨🇦 Canada and 1 moreIroquoian farmers and fishers of the St. Lawrence River valley, vanished by 1600 Historical, Iroquoian Gisu 🇺🇬 Uganda and 1 moreBantu-speaking farmers of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda About 1.6 million, Bantu Sangirsuku Sangir 🇮🇩 Indonesia and 1 moreFishing and farming people of the Sangihe Islands and southern Mindanao About 600,000, Austronesian Patamona 🇬🇾 Guyana and 1 moreIndigenous people of the Pakaraima Mountains in Guyana and northern Brazil About 6,000, Cariban Sisseton Wahpeton OyateSkiskiṭuŋwaŋ Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ Oyáte 🇺🇸 United StatesDakota people of the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota About 12,000, Siouan KoruboDslala 🇧🇷 BrazilPanoan-speaking people living in voluntary isolation in Brazil's Amazon About 127, Panoan MatisMatsë 🇧🇷 BrazilIndigenous people of western Brazil's Vale do Javari, known for hunting and body art About 457, Panoan RoteneseSuku Rote 🇮🇩 IndonesiaNative people of Rote Island and West Timor, known for weaving and farming About 239,000, Austronesian Kamboj 🇵🇰 Pakistan and 1 moreAgrarian community found in India and Pakistan, also known as Kamboh About 550,000 Jebala 🇲🇦 MoroccoMountain tribal confederation of northwest Morocco About 1.3 million, Maghrebi Arabic (Pre-Hilalian Arabic) SirionóMiá 🇧🇴 BoliviaForest-dwelling people of northern Bolivia, known for matrilineal families About 782, Tupí-Guaraní Ysleta del Sur PuebloChiawipia 🇺🇸 United StatesSouthern Tiwa Pueblo community in El Paso, Texas About 4,000, Kiowa-Tanoan Matipu 🇧🇷 BrazilIndigenous Cariban people of the Xingu Indigenous Park, Mato Grosso, Brazil About 157, Cariban ZiaTsʾíiyʾamʾé 🇺🇸 United StatesPueblo people of New Mexico known for their sun symbol and pottery About 850, Keresan Yudjá 🇧🇷 BrazilIndigenous people of the Xingu River region in Brazil About 880, Yurúna (Tupian languages) EngganoE Lopeh 🇮🇩 IndonesiaMatrilineal islanders of Enggano off southwest Sumatra About 2,000, Austronesian (classification debated) ParintintinKagwahiva’nga 🇧🇷 BrazilIndigenous Kagwahiva people of the Madeira River basin in Brazil About 480, Tupi–Guarani Otavalo 🇪🇨 EcuadorIndigenous Andean people known for weaving and vibrant markets in northern Ecuador About 50,000, Quechuan (Kichwa); formerly Barbacoan (Cara) Mawé 🇧🇷 BrazilGuaraná cultivators of the Brazilian Amazon About 16,000, Tupian TarianaTaliaseri 🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 moreIndigenous people of the Uaupés River in Brazil and Colombia About 3,000, Arawakan Rikbaktsa 🇧🇷 BrazilIndigenous people of the Amazon rain forest in northwest Mato Grosso, Brazil About 2,000, Macro-Gê
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