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Haitians
Haitians (Creole: ayisyen, French: haïtiens) are the people of Haiti, on the western third of Hispaniola, descended largely from enslaved Africans who won independence in 1804.
Haitians in the Dominican Republic
Haitians in the Dominican Republic are the migrant population and Dominican-born descendants of Haitian origin, over 497,000 counted in 2017, concentrated in agriculture and construction.
Hakka people
Hakka people (客家人, Kejia, 'guest families'): Han Chinese subgroup migrated from north-central China to Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi in five waves; known for Hakka language, tulou dwellings, and global diaspora.
Hammerskins
Hammerskins, or Hammerskin Nation (HSN), a neo-Nazi racist skinhead group founded in Dallas in 1988, known for its crossed-hammers logo from Pink Floyd's The Wall, white power music events, and violent hate crimes.
Han Chinese
Han Chinese (汉族, Hanzu) are the PRC's majority minzu, about 91.5% of the population, one of 56 recognized groups, tracing roots to the Huaxia and speaking seven major Sinitic fangyan groups.
Han Taiwanese
Han Taiwanese (臺灣漢人) are the Han Chinese majority of Taiwan, about 95–98% of the population, descended from Fujian and Guangdong migrants (Hoklo, Hakka) from the 17th century and post-1945 mainlanders.
Hannah Simpson Grant
Hannah Simpson Grant, also known as Hannah Simpson, was a quiet Methodist and the mother of Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general and 18th US president.
Haole
Haole is a Hawaiian word meaning foreigner or white person, used in Hawaii and Hawaii Pidgin for non-Polynesians, especially whites; debated as slur or neutral, ruled non-derogatory by Hawaii's Civil Rights Commission in 1995 but treated as a slur in a 2022 federal hate crime case.
Hapa
Hapa is a Native Hawaiian word meaning portion or half, known through hapa haole (half white/foreigner); originally for mixed Native Hawaiians, later adopted by mainland mixed Asian/Pacific Islander Americans, with an ongoing appropriation debate.
Happy Valley set
The Happy Valley set was a circle of British and Anglo-Irish aristocrats and socialites in Kenya's Rift Valley, 1920s-1940s, infamous for drink, drugs, and adultery, ending with Lord Erroll's 1941 murder.
Haratin
Haratin (Haratine, Black Moors): Arabic-speaking descendants of enslaved Black Africans in Mauritania and the Sahel, the largest ethnolinguistic group there at about 40% of the population, historically enslaved by the Beydane; slavery was abolished in 1981 and criminalized in 2007 but persists in descent-based forms.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a Canadian Sikh separatist leader and Surrey, B.C. gurdwara president, shot dead June 18, 2023; India had designated him a Khalistan Tiger Force terrorist, and Canada alleged Indian agents were linked to his killing.
Harold Kushner
Harold S. Kushner (1935–2023), American Conservative rabbi of Temple Israel, Natick, Massachusetts, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People (1981), written after his son Aaron died of progeria; the bestseller advanced a theology of a loving but not all-powerful God.
Harriman family
Harriman family, American dynasty descended from Leonard of Rowley and John of New Haven; E. H. Harriman built the Union Pacific fortune, Averell Harriman became governor and diplomat, and the name survives in Brown Brothers Harriman and Columbia's Harriman Institute.
Harry Reasoner
Harry Reasoner (1923–1991), American broadcast journalist, CBS and ABC evening news anchor and founding 60 Minutes correspondent; with Barbara Walters formed network TV's first male-female anchor team.
Hausa people
Hausa people, West African people of Northern Nigeria and Niger speaking Hausa, an Afro-Asiatic Chadic language with tens of millions of speakers. Known for Ajami and Boko scripts, the Sokoto Caliphate, and trading diaspora communities in Yoruba towns.
Hawaiʻiloa
Hawaiʻiloa names both a legendary Hawaiian navigator said to have discovered the islands and a 57-foot double-hulled voyaging canoe built 1991–1993 from Alaskan Sitka spruce by the Polynesian Voyaging Society.
Hayato people
The Hayato (隼人) were the ancient people of southern Kyushu, Japan, long resisted by the Yamato court before their final defeat in the war of 720 to 721.
Hazaras (هزاره)
Hazaras (هزاره) are a Dari-speaking, mostly Shia ethnic group of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran, about 10–15% of Afghans, historically persecuted under Abdur Rahman Khan, the Taliban, and ISKP attacks.
Hearst family
The Hearst family: George Hearst's mining fortune, William Randolph Hearst's nationwide yellow-journalism newspaper empire and political bids, and the family trust that still controls Hearst today.
Heather Altman
Heather Altman, née Bilyeu, is an American luxury real estate agent and reality TV personality, a cast member of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles from 2008.
Hehe people
The Hehe, also called Wahehe, are a Bantu-speaking people of Tanzania's Southern Highlands, known for resisting German colonial rule under Chief Mkwawa from 1891 to 1898.
Hemlata Rajye
Hemlata Rajye is the Maharani of Jodhpur and a princess of Poonch by birth; her children are Shivranjani Rajye and Shivraj Singh, born 1974 and 1975.
Henry Street Settlement
Henry Street Settlement is a New York City nonprofit founded in 1893 by nurse Lillian Wald on the Lower East Side, headquartered at 265 Henry Street, known for public health nursing, the 1972 Urban Family Center shelter model, and the Abrons Arts Center.
Hephthalites
The Hephthalites, or White Huns (Byzantine Ephthalitai, Arabic Hayṭāl), were a Central Asian confederation that ruled Transoxiana, Khorasan, and northern India from roughly 460 to 570, defeated Sasanian king Peroz in 484, and fell around 560 to a Sasanian-Turk alliance.
Herero people
The Herero (Ovaherero) are Bantu-speaking pastoralists of Namibia, Botswana, and Angola speaking Otjiherero, divided into Ovaherero, Ovambanderu, and Ovahimba; they suffered the 1904-1908 German genocide and lead ongoing reparations efforts.
Heritage American
Heritage American, also called Heritage America, is right-wing US political slang for a white American with generations of European Christian ancestry; popularized by C. Jay Engel, debated by Vance and Ramaswamy, criticized as exclusionary.
Hermann Gmeiner
Hermann Gmeiner (1919–1986) was an Austrian philanthropist who co-founded SOS Children's Villages in 1949, a federation raising children without parental care in family-style houses rather than large orphanages.
Hi5
Hi5: social networking site founded 2003 by Ramu Yalamanchi, also known as hi5.com. Third-largest social network by unique visitors in 2008, strong in Latin America, Romania, Turkey; acquired by Tagged 2011, MeetMe 2017.
Hiawatha
Hiawatha (Hayo'wetha, Aionwahta), Haudenosaunee co-founder with the Peacemaker of the Iroquois Confederacy's Great Law of Peace and bringer of wampum; distinct from Longfellow's 1855 poem hero based on the Ojibwe Manabozho.