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Abdul Rahim al-Huwaiti
Abdul Rahim al-Huwaiti (عبدالرحيم الحويطي), Saudi Huwaitat tribesman and Ministry of Finance employee, killed 13 April 2020 by Special Forces in al-Khuraiba, Tabuk, after refusing eviction for the Neom megacity project; UN rapporteurs linked his death to freedom of expression.
Adivasi (आदिवासी)
Adivasi (आदिवासी), Hindi for "original inhabitant", is the term for India's indigenous tribal communities, coined politically in the 1930s; distinct from the constitutional category Scheduled Tribe, about 8.6% of India's population.
Afridi
Afridi (Aprīdī), a major Pashtun tribe of the Karlāni lineage centered on the Khyber Pass and Tirah in northwest Pakistan, organized into eight clans, historically resisting Mughal and British control; the name also belongs to figures such as Sohail Afridi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister.
Al-Houthi family
Al-Houthi family (آل الحوثي), the Hashemite sayyid family of Saada, Yemen, that founded and leads the Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement; patriarch Badreddine al-Houthi, founder Hussein killed in 2004, current leader Abdul-Malik.
Andamanese peoples
Andamanese peoples are the indigenous Negrito groups of India's Andaman Islands: Great Andamanese, Jarawa, Onge, and Sentinelese. Once about 6,500 people in 1780, they declined catastrophically under colonization; the Sentinelese remain uncontacted.
Arain
Arain (آرائین), also Raeen or Rayeen, a large predominantly Muslim agricultural caste and biradari of the Punjab in Pakistan and India; about 1.1 million in the 1921 census, classified colonial 'agriculturalists', largely resettled in Pakistani Punjab after 1947.
Bakhtiari people
Bakhtiari (بختیاری) people: southwestern Iranian Lur-speaking Zagros group in Khuzestan, Chahar-Mahal and Bakhtiari, and Isfahan; Chahar Lang and Haft Lang divisions; 19th-century Bakhtiari tribal confederacy under the ilkhan.
Bangwato
The Bangwato, also called the Ngwato or Bamangwato, are a Tswana people of east-central Botswana who built the largest Tswana state, centered on Shoshong and later Serowe.
Banjara (बंजारा)
Banjara (बंजारा), also Lambadi, Lambani, Labana or Gor, is a historically nomadic Indian trader-transporter community, once Mughal army suppliers, later a Criminal Tribe under the 1871 Act, now ST in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha and SC in Karnataka.
Banu Ifran
Banu Ifran (بنو إفرن), also Beni Ifren, were a Zenata Berber tribe prominent in North Africa and al-Andalus from the Islamic conquest to the eleventh century.
Bedouin
Bedouin (Arabic badawī, plural badw), Arabic-speaking nomadic desert peoples of the Middle East and North Africa; tribal pastoralist societies of camel, sheep, and goat herders, now largely settled, notably the Negev Bedouin.
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT, Séliš, Ql̓ispé, Ksanka) unite three tribes on Montana's Flathead Reservation under the 1855 Hellgate Treaty, governed by a ten-member council with a 2015 water rights compact.
Dörbet
The Dörbet (Дөрвөд), also spelled Derbet, are an Oirat Mongol tribe of the 15th to 18th century Four Oirat confederation, today Mongolia's second largest Mongol subgroup.
Five Civilized Tribes
The Five Civilized Tribes are the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole nations of the southeastern United States, removed to Indian Territory, allotted under the Curtis Act via the Dawes Rolls, with Freedmen citizenship disputes continuing.
Gomani
Gomani is the royal name of the Inkosi ya Makhosi, the paramount king of the Maseko Ngoni of Malawi and Mozambique, descended from the ancestral name Ngcamane.
Great Jüz
The Great Jüz (Ұлы жүз), also called the Senior Jüz, is one of the three historical tribal associations of the Kazakh people, occupying Zhetysu in southeastern Kazakhstan.
Hidatsa
The Hidatsa are a Native American people of the Upper Missouri in North Dakota, formed from three groups (Awatixa, Awaxawi, Hidatsa-proper, "People of the Willows") who farmed earthlodge villages at the Knife River, suffered 1837 smallpox, moved to Like-a-Fishhook Village in 1845, and now belong to the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation on the Fort Berthold Reservation.
Hirabai Lobi
Hirabai Ibrahim Lobi (हीराबाई इब्राहीम लोबी), Siddi social worker of Jambur, Gujarat; founded Mahila Vikas Foundation 2004 and Balwadi kindergartens; Padma Shri 2023 for Social Work (Tribal); died 24 January 2025.
Horse culture
Horse culture: societies and communities whose way of life centers on herding, breeding, and riding horses, from Botai and steppe pastoralism to Plains Indigenous and modern rodeo cultures.
Kakar (کاکړ)
Kakar (کاکړ) is a Gharghashti Pashtun tribe of the Suliman mountains between Quetta and the Gomal river, based in Balochistan, Pakistan, and Loy Kandahar, Afghanistan, divided into many sub-tribes and tracing descent from Qais Abdul Rashid.
Karakalpak confederation
The Karakalpak confederation was the tribal organization of the Karakalpaks, a Turkic people of the Aral Sea region, from the sixteenth century until the 1920s.
Kel Ajjer
Kel Ajjer, also written Kel Azjer, is one of the major Tuareg confederations of the northern Sahara, based on the Tassili n'Ajjer plateau of southeastern Algeria and southwestern Libya.
Kel Owey
The Kel Owey, also spelled Kel Ewey or Kel Owi, are a Tuareg tribe of the Aïr massif in northern Niger, dominant in the region from about 1760 to 1860.
Khadija bint Khuwaylid (خديجة بنت خويلد)
Khadija bint Khuwaylid (خديجة بنت خويلد), died 619 CE, was a wealthy Meccan merchant of the Quraysh, first and for 25 years only wife of the Prophet Muhammad, his employer before prophethood, first convert to Islam, and financier of the early Muslim community.
Komaram Bheem
Komaram Bheem (1901–1940) was a Gond tribal leader of Adilabad, Hyderabad State, who led the 1940 Jodeghat rebellion against Nizam-era forest and land policies under the slogan Jal, Jangal, Jameen; he is commemorated at Jodeghat and namesake of Kumuram Bheem Asifabad district.
Korowai people
Korowai (koluf-yanop, Kolufo), a Papuan people of about 4,000 in southern Indonesian Papua between the Eilanden and Becking rivers; clan-based society, treehouse settlements, first contact 1974, heavily staged TV portrayals since 1986.
Kunta (tribe)
The Kunta, in Arabic Kinata, are an Arabic-speaking tribe and scholarly lineage of the southern Sahara and Sahel, prominent from the 18th century in present-day northern Mali.
Magyar tribes
Magyar tribes: the seven named tribes (Nyék, Megyer, Kürtgyarmat, Tarján, Jenő, Kér, Keszi) plus Kabar groups forming the early Hungarian confederation under Khazar rule, entering the Carpathian Basin in the late 9th century.
Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation
The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes or MHA Nation, is a federally recognized tribal nation sharing the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central North Dakota.
Meena (मीणा)
Meena (मीणा, also Mina) is a Scheduled Tribe community of eastern Rajasthan, historically ruling a dozen states before the twelfth century, stigmatized under the Criminal Tribes Act 1871, denotified in 1952, and given ST recognition in 1954.