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Ethnicity

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Also known as
  • aboriginal group,
  • tribe
This type is intended as a general, world-wide catch-all for groups of indigenous people.  Other types, more specific to a given area, will be able to include this type. more

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Cree Canadian aboriginal group    
Not to be confused with the Creek. Cree is an exonym applied to various people indigenous to North America, namely the Nehiyaw, Nehithaw, Nehilaw, Nehinaw, Ininiw, Ililiw, Iynu, and Iyyu. These peoples can be divided into two major groups, those...
Inuit An Inuit woman, circa 1907 Canadian aboriginal group Eskimo Inuvialuit
Inuit (plural: the singular, Inuk, means "man" or "person") is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Alaska, Greenland, and Canada. The Inuit language is grouped under Eskimo-Aleut...
Inupiat
Algonquin Distribution of Anishinaabe peoples; the Oji-Cree are depicted by the northernmost purple band Canadian aboriginal group    
The Algonquins (or Algonkins) are an aboriginal North America people speaking Algonquin, an Anishinaabe language. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, with whom they form the larger Anicinàpe grouping. The...
Tlingit Tlingit and Haida Central Council Canadian aboriginal group    
The Tlingit ( in English, also or Tlinkit , which is often considered inaccurate) are an Indigenous people of northwestern America. Their name for themselves is Lingít , meaning "people". The Russian name Koloshi (from an Aleut term for the labret...
Dene   Canadian aboriginal group    
The Dene (Dené) are an aboriginal group of First Nations that live primarily in the Arctic regions of Canada. Dene is a compound of two words: De means "flow" and Ne meaning "Mother Earth". Dene homeland is referred to as Denendeh, meaning "the...
Okanagan people   Canadian aboriginal group    
The Okanagan people, also spelled Okanogan, are a First Nations and Native American people whose traditional territory spans the U.S.-Canada boundary in Washington state and British Columbia. Known in their own language as the Syilx, they are part...
Blackfoot Blackfoot - Bear Bull Canadian aboriginal group Native American  
The Blackfoot Confederacy or Niitsítapi (meaning "original people"; c.f. Ojibwe: Anishinaabe and Quinnipiac: Eansketambawg) is the collective name of three First Nations in Alberta and one Native American tribe in Montana. The Blackfoot...
Treaty signatory
Anishinaabe Distribution of Anishinaabe peoples; the Oji-Cree are depicted by the northernmost purple band Canadian aboriginal group   Mississaugas
Anishinaabe or more properly Anishinaabeg or Anishinabek (which is the plural form of the word) is a self-description often used by the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Algonkin peoples, who all speak closely-related Anishinaabemowin/Anishinaabe language. Not...
Mississaugas   Canadian aboriginal group Anishinaabe  
The Mississaugas are a subtribe of the Anishinaabe First Nations people located in southern Ontario, Canada, closely related to the Ojibwa. The name "Mississauga" comes from the Anishinaabe word Misi-zaagiing, meaning "[Those at the] Great River...
Iroquois Irokezi w XVIII wieku Canadian aboriginal group Native American Mohawk nation
The Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the "League of Peace and Power", the "Five Nations"; the "Six Nations"; or the "People of the Longhouse") is a group of First Nations/Native Americans that originally consisted of five nations: the Mohawk, the...
American Indian group
Nakoda Their Majesties greet chieftains of the Stoney Indian Tribe, who have brought a photo of Queen Victoria Canadian aboriginal group    
The Nakoda (also known as Stoney) are a First Nation group, indigenous to both Canada and the United States. They inhabit large parts of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana. They are descendants of the Dakota and Lakota nations of...
Assiniboine Assiniboine Family, Montana, 1890-1891 Canadian aboriginal group    
The Assiniboine, also known by the Ojibwe name Asiniibwaan "Stone Sioux", and the Cree as Asinîpwât are a Native American/First Nations people originally from the Northern Great Plains of the United States and Canada, centered in present-day...
Métis people Riel-o Canadian aboriginal group First Nations  
The Métis are descendants of marriages of Cree, Ojibwa, Algonquin, Saulteaux, and Menominee aboriginals to Europeans, and are one of three recognized Aboriginal peoples in Canada, along with the First Nations (Indians) and Inuit (Eskimo). Commonly ...
Yolngu     Indigenous Australians  
The Yolngu (or Yolŋu) are an Indigenous Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Yolngu literally means “person” in the language spoken by the people. The complete system of Yolngu Law is known...
Yamatji        
Yamatji is the name of an important Aboriginal people of the Murchison, Gascoyne and Pilbara regions of the North West of Western Australia, and comes from the word "friend" in the local languages of the area. Before contact it is questionable about...
Mohawk nation Tegning av den kjente mohawkhøvdingen Joseph Brant.   Iroquois  
Mohawk (Kanienkeh, Kanienkehaka or Kanien’Kahake, meaning "People of the Flint") are an indigenous people of North America originally from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to southern Quebec and eastern Ontario. Their current settlements...
Eora Portrait of Bennelong, senior man of the Eora tribe      
The traditional owners of the inner Sydney City region of Australia are the Cadigal people, one of the peoples who belong to the Eora language group. Their land south of Port Jackson stretches from South Head to Petersham. The word Eora (sometimes...
Wurundjeri Sewn and incised possum-skin cloak of Wurundjeri origin (Melbourne Museum)      
The Wurundjeri are Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation, who occupied the Yarra River Valley and its tributaries in what is now Melbourne, Australia prior to British settlement of the area. Wurundjeri people take their name from 'wurun' or ...
Pitjantjatjara Uluru in the evening   Indigenous Australians  
Pitjantjatjara is the name of both an Aboriginal people of the Central Australia desert, and their language (for which see Pitjantjatjara language). They are closely related to the Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra, they are also related to the...
Warlpiri        
The Warlpiri are a group of Indigenous Australians, many of whom speak the Warlpiri language. There are 5,000–6,000 Warlpiri, living mostly in a few towns and settlements scattered through their traditional land in Australia's Northern Territory,...
Ainu people AinuGroup Ethnicity in fiction    
(also called Ezo in historical texts) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaidō, the Kuril Islands, and much of Sakhalin. There are most likely over 150,000 Ainu today; however the exact figure is not known as many Ainu hide their origin due to...
Aleut A "barabara" (Aleut: ulax), the traditional Aleut winter house      
The Aleuts (self-denomination from Aleut language allíthuh 'community'; older or regional self-denomination , Unangan or Unanga 'coastal people') are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, United States and Kamchatka Krai, Russia. ...
Inuvialuit     Inuit  
The Inuvialuit (in Inuvialuktun: the real people) are Inuit people who live in the western Canadian Arctic region. They are descendants of the Thule people, other descendants who inhabit Russia. Their homeland - the Inuvialuit Settlement Region -...
Inupiat Inuit man 1906   Inuit  
The Inupiat or Iñupiaq (from inuit- people - and piaq/t real, i.e. 'real people') are the Inuit people of Alaska's Northwest Arctic and North Slope boroughs and the Bering Strait region. Barrow, the northernmost city in the United States, is in the...
Yupik   Canadian aboriginal group Eskimo  
The Yupik or, in the Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Yup'ik, are a group of indigenous or aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East. They include the Central Alaskan Yup'ik people of the Yukon...
Slavey   Canadian aboriginal group    
The Slavey (also Slave) are a First Nations aboriginal people of the Dene group, indigenous to the Great Slave Lake region, in Canada's Northwest Territories, and extending into northeastern British Columbia and northwestern Alberta. This name was...
Djagaraga        
The Djagaraga or Gudang are an Australian Aboriginal tribe, inhabiting the northernmost area of Cape York Peninsula. Traditionally they spoke the Djagaraga language.
Guugu Yimithirr people        
The Guugu Yimithirr are an Australian Aboriginal tribe of Far North Queensland, most of whom today live at Hopevale. It is also the name of their language. They were a coastal people and refer to themselves as "saltwater people."
Gorualgal        
The Gorualgal were an Aboriginal tribe of Lower Northern Sydney who inhabited the area around Fig Tree Point. Their land is now present-day Northbridge, located in the City of Willoughby.
Gunwinggu        
The Gunwinggu or Kunwinjku is an Australian Aboriginal tribe of Northern Australia. The historical living area is south of Jungle Creek and around the East Alligator River. They speak the Gunwinggu language. One myth is that an ancestral crocodile...