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Calusa
The Calusa were a non-agricultural Native American people of southwest Florida whose kingdom, ruled from the capital Mound Key, was the most powerful polity in the region at Spanish contact.
Camarioca boatlift
The Camarioca boatlift was an autumn 1965 seaborne migration in which several thousand Cubans left Cuba through the small port of Camarioca for Florida.
Campaign for Real Ale
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) is a British volunteer-run consumer organization founded in 1971 to campaign for real ale, real cider, and the survival of traditional pubs.
Canadian ethnicity
Canadian ethnicity is the self-reported ethnic or cultural ancestry recorded in Canada's census; over 450 origins appeared in 2021, led by Canadian, English, Irish, Scottish and French origins.
Canadians
Canadians are the people of Canada, about 41.8 million in 2026, including citizens by birth and naturalization, shaped by bilingualism, multiculturalism, and sustained immigration.
Cañari
The Cañari (Kañari) are an indigenous people of the southern Ecuadorian Andes whose pre-Inca culture flourished from about 500 BC to 1460 AD, known above all for ceramics.
Cannibalism in Oceania
Cannibalism in Oceania: endo- and exocannibalism in New Guinea, Fiji, and Polynesia; archaeological evidence from Rossel Island; kuru among the Fore; and the colonial man-eating myth debate.
Cantonese people (广东人)
Cantonese people (广东人, Guangdong ren) are the people of Guangdong province, narrowly the Yue-speaking Pearl River delta subgroup alongside Hakka and Teochew; about 84.9 million speak Cantonese, with large diasporas in Southeast Asia, North America, and Hong Kong.
Caolan Robertson
Caolan Robertson (born 1994, Kilkenny, Ireland) is an Irish independent war correspondent based in Kyiv, formerly a far-right video maker for Rebel News and Tommy Robinson, now a Patreon-funded Ukraine reporter awarded Ukraine's Order of Merit (third class) in 2026.
Cape Coloureds
Cape Coloureds are a Western Cape South African community of mixed Khoisan, slave (East, Malaysia, Central Africa), and European descent, shaped by colonial classification, apartheid disenfranchisement, District Six removals, and Afrikaans culture.
Cape Dutch
Cape Dutch, also known as Cape Afrikaners, refers to the Dutch settlers at the Cape of Good Hope, their spoken dialect, and a regional architectural style.
Cape Malays
Cape Malays: Muslim, largely Afrikaans-speaking community of Cape Town descended from VOC-era slaves and exiles from the Dutch East Indies and Indian Ocean colonies; classified as a Coloured subgroup in 1950.
Cape Verdeans
Cape Verdeans (Cabo-verdianos) are the Creole people of the Cabo Verde archipelago and their diaspora, descending from Portuguese settlers and enslaved Africans after 1462, speaking Kriolu, independent since 5 July 1975, and living today mostly abroad.
Cardinal
Cardinal (Northern Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis; French Cardinal rouge): a crested North American songbird of family Cardinalidae; brilliant red male, brown female, non-migratory, state bird of seven US states.
Caroline Schermerhorn Astor
Caroline Schermerhorn Astor (1830–1908), "the Mrs. Astor," doyenne of Gilded Age New York society who with Ward McAllister curated the Four Hundred and was forced by Alva Vanderbilt's 1883 ball to admit new money.
Caroline Spencer, Countess Spencer
Caroline Spencer, Countess Spencer: Caroline Freud (née Hutton), British journalist, former PR professional and Althorp literary-festival leader ('Pidge'), second wife (2001-2007) of Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer; distinct from the Duchess of Marlborough and Viscountess Clifden of the same name.
Carolyn Garcia
Carolyn Garcia (Mountain Girl), born 1946, née Carolyn Elizabeth Adams: Merry Prankster, Jerry Garcia's second wife, and the woman who won the 1997 Marin County probate ruling enforcing his $5 million divorce settlement.
Casta
Casta (Spanish/Portuguese for lineage) was the ancestry-based classification of colonial Latin America's sociedad de castas, ranking Spaniards, mestizos, and mixed groups, documented in casta paintings and softened by gracias al sacar exemptions.
Caste
Caste is birth-ascribed, endogamous social stratification, paradigmatic in South Asia through varna and jati, ranked by purity and pollution, with Dalits at the bottom, colonial-era rigidification, and continuing legal and diaspora debates.
Caste politics
Caste politics: mobilization of caste identity in Indian electoral politics, reservation policy, and the census. Covers colonial enumeration (1871-1931), the Mandal-era OBC politics, the 50% quota cap, and the 2025 caste census decision.
Caste system among South Asian Muslims
Caste system among South Asian Muslims: hierarchical, endogamous biradari stratification ranked as Ashraf (noble, foreign-origin), Ajlaf (convert commoners), and Arzal; shaped by kaf'aa marriage rules, regional variation, OBC reservation politics, and the Pasmanda movement.
Caste system in India
Caste system in India (jati, varna): hereditary social hierarchy with Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, and Dalits outside; hardened under British census rule, banned in the 1950 constitution, addressed by reservations capped at 50%, and counted fully in the 2027 census.
Caste system in Kerala
Caste system in Kerala: the regional caste hierarchy of Malabar, Cochin and Travancore, marked by extreme distance pollution (300-foot rule), agrestic slavery, reformers like Ayyankali and Sree Narayana Guru, the 1924-25 Vaikom Satyagraha, and persisting Dalit land and education inequality.
Caste system in Nepal
Caste system in Nepal: hereditary caste hierarchy codified by the Muluki Ain of 1854 under Jang Bahadur Rana, with five categories including untouchable Dalits; discrimination now illegal but persistent.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 Random House bestseller arguing that US racism is a caste system, compared with India and Nazi Germany; adapted into Ava DuVernay's film Origin.
Catalans
Catalans (catalans) are the people identified with Catalonia and the Catalan-speaking lands; their Romance language, born 8th-10th centuries, underpins a medieval identity, 1714 institutional defeat, Francoist repression, and modern bilingual demographics.
Catawba people
Catawba people (Ye Iswa, "people of the river"): Piedmont Native American nation of the Catawba River valley; only federally recognized tribe in South Carolina, restored in 1993 with a $50 million settlement, over 3,300 citizens.
Caucasian race
The Caucasian race, also known as Europid, is an obsolete racial classification of humans introduced by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in the 1790s and rejected by modern genetics and biological anthropology.
Cayuga people
Cayuga people (Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ', People of the Great Swamp), one of five original Haudenosaunee nations of the Finger Lakes, New York; displaced by the 1779 Sullivan-Clinton campaign, party to the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, with communities in New York, Ontario, and Oklahoma.
Celebrity
Celebrity: widely known individuals whose fame is produced by mass media, from Garrick and the penny press to radio, TV, and social media; a decaying, recruit-hungry form of social status.