Important Tribes of the World

Tribe	Where They are Found
Kalmuks	Inhabit the Altai mountains & nearby areas pastroal
Kirghiz	Occupy the Tien Shan & adjacent Pamirs
Gauchos	Cowboys of the pampas of Argentina & Uruguay.
Mestizos	People of mixed white & Indian parentage
Ostyaks	West Siberian tribe
Pygmies	Congo basin – Zaire, Congo, Gabon.
Boro	Amazon basin sub group of red Indians.
Semang	Malaysia
Papuans	New Guinea
Bushmen or San	Kalahari – Namibia, Botswana, Angola
Bedouins	Nomadic Arabs in Africa & Middle East
Masai	East Africa – Kenya, Uganda
Kirghiz	Central Asia. Muslim by faith
Saami or Lapps	Norway, Sweden, Finland – Also known as Laplanders
Yuti	Siberia
Chukchi	Far Eastern Siberia
Yakuts	Tundra region of Russia
Aleut	Aleutian Islands
Yuit	Siberia
Inuit	Greenland, Canada & Siberia
Samoyed	West Siberia
Punan	Borneo
Afrikaner/Boer	Dutch race in S. Africa
Afridis	N. West Pakistan
Veddas	Racial stock of Sri Lanka
Bantus	Central & southern Africa – Swahili is Bantu derived language.
Berbers	Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia
Maori	New Zealand
Bindibu	Western Australia
Cossacks	Russia around black & Caspian Sea
Magyar	Inhabitants of Hungary
Croats	Croatia
Flemish	Belgium
Finns	European Tundra
Hamites	NW Africa – Dark skinned muslims
Hottentots/khoi khoi	Tropical Africa
Kaffris	S. Africa – known as martial race
Kikuyu	Kenya’s most populous ethnic group
Masuds	Waziristan region, Pakistan
Mestizos	People of mixed Indian & European blood in Latin America
Amerinds	N. America – People of mixed European & Indian blood
Mulatto	Mixed European & black blood in South America
Moors	Mixed tribe of Arabs & Berber people of Morocco
Semites	Jews & Ethiopians
Tartar	Turkic people of eastern Europe & central Asia
Zambas	People of African & Native American Indian in S. America
Zulus	People of Bantu family inhabiting South Africa
Akka	Democratic republic of Congo
Oromo or Galla	African people of hamitic origin in Ethiopia & Kenya
Uygur	Turkic people inhabiting NW china & Kazakhstan.
Kubu	Inhabitants of Sumatra
Fulani/Fula	Cattle herders of Nigeria, Senegal, Guinea or Chad
Buryat	Largest ethnic minority in Siberia inhabiting buryat republic.
Aeta	Mongoloid racial stock found in Philippines (indigenous)
Ainu	Caucasoids of Japan.
Yanomamo	Indigenous people of Brazil & Venezuela

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