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Kiowa
Kiowa, a Southern Plains Native American tribe of Oklahoma and Texas, speaking a Tanoan-related language; allied with the Comanche around 1790, signed the 1867 Medicine Lodge Treaty, held its last Sun Dance in 1887.
Kippumjo (기쁨조)
Kippumjo (기쁨조), also called Section 5 (5과), pleasure squads of young North Korean women selected from about age 13 to serve the ruling Kim family and elite; founded 1975 under Kim Il Sung, with reported song-and-dance, attendance, and sexual-service subdivisions.
Kirk Raymond Jones
Kirk Raymond Jones, Canton, Michigan daredevil; first known person to survive Niagara Falls' Horseshoe Falls unprotected on October 20, 2003; died 2017 in a second, inflatable-ball attempt.
Kirt Schneider
Kirt A. Schneider, also Kirt Schneider, is an American Messianic Jewish TV host of Discovering the Jewish Jesus: born to Jewish parents in Ohio, converted after a 1978 vision of Jesus, leads Lion of Judah in Toledo, wrote Called to Breakthrough, cut his payot in 2026.
Kitty Duterte
Veronica "Kitty" Duterte, youngest daughter of Rodrigo Duterte and Honeylet Avanceña; filmed his March 2025 ICC arrest, campaigned for PDP-Laban in 2025, and defends the family at ICC and impeachment events.
Kiwanis
Kiwanis is a global volunteer service organization founded in Detroit in 1915, focused on serving children, with clubs in about 85 countries, 49 districts, and youth programs including Key Club, Circle K, Builders Club, K-Kids, and Aktion Club.
Kizuna-kai (絆會)
Kizuna-kai (絆會), also known as the Ninkyo Yamaguchi-gumi, is a Hyogo-based yakuza group formed in April 2017 as a splinter from the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi; a designated boryokudan and confrontation-designated group distinct from the religious corporation Kizunakai.
Klamath people
Klamath people of southern Oregon; the Klamath Tribes (Klamath, Modoc, Yahooskin-Paiute), Treaty of 1864, 1954 termination, 1986 restoration, and Klamath River dam removal.
Knanaya (ക്നാനായ)
Knanaya (ക്നാനായ), or Thekkumbhagar (Southists), is an endogamous community within Kerala's Saint Thomas Christians, tracing origin to a 345 CE Jewish-Christian migration from Mesopotamia led by Thomas of Cana; split into Syro-Malabar Catholic (Archeparchy of Kottayam) and Jacobite branches.
Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus, founded by Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven in 1882 and chartered March 29, 1882, is a Catholic fraternal benefit society with over 2 million members, offering life insurance and performing extensive charitable work.
Knights of Pythias
Knights of Pythias, fraternal order founded by Justus H. Rathbone in Washington, DC, February 19, 1864; first US fraternal order chartered by Act of Congress; ritual based on Damon and Pythias; principles Friendship, Charity, Benevolence.
Knights Templar (Freemasonry)
Knights Templar (Freemasonry): Christian chivalric appendant order, top York Rite body in the US, meeting in Commanderies under Grand Commanderies and the Grand Encampment; not descended from the medieval Templars.
Kodava people
Kodavas (Coorgs), an ethnolinguistic agricultural-martial community of Kodagu district, Karnataka, India; speakers of the endangered Dravidian language Kodava takk; known for ancestor worship, Kaveriamma veneration, oral patt poetry, and genetic similarity to neighboring South Indians.
Koli people
Koli people (कोली), also Son Koli, Mahadeo Koli, are a cluster of fishing and agricultural castes and tribes of western India, about 12 million people in Maharashtra and Gujarat, with 39 surviving Koliwada villages in Mumbai.
Kololo people
The Kololo, also rendered Makololo or baKololo, were a Sotho-speaking people who under Sebetwane conquered the Lozi kingdom of Bulozi and ruled it from about 1840 to 1864.
Komagata Maru incident
The Komagata Maru incident: 1914 event in which a Japanese steamship carrying 376 Punjabi passengers was denied landing at Vancouver for two months under Canada's continuous journey regulation and forced back to India.
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.
Komodo people
Komodo people (Ata Modo, "people of Modo") are the indigenous Muslim inhabitants of Komodo Island, Indonesia, speakers of the endangered Komodo language (kvh), kin to the dragon Ora in the sebae twin myth, facing relocation and tourism pressure.
Kongo people
The Kongo people (Bakongo) are a Bantu people speaking Kikongo across Angola, the DRC, and the Republic of the Congo, heirs of the Kingdom of Kongo founded around 1400, known for minkisi power figures and a large Atlantic diaspora.
Konkani people
Konkani people: ethnolinguistic communities of India's western Konkan coast speaking Konkani, centered in Goa and coastal Karnataka, Kerala, and Maharashtra; multi-script, multi-religion, with diasporas in Portugal and the Indian Ocean.
Korean Americans (한국계 미국인)
Korean Americans (한국계 미국인) are U.S. residents of Korean origin, the fifth-largest Asian origin group at about 2 million in 2023, 56% foreign-born, centered in California, with immigration waves from 1903 Hawaii plantations, 1950s war brides, and post-1965 professionals.
Korean Democratic Women's Union
The Korean Democratic Women's Union (조선민주여성동맹) is North Korea's mass organization for women, founded in 1945 and renamed the Socialist Women's Union of Korea in 2016.
Korean diaspora
Korean diaspora (재외동포): about 7 million people of Korean descent in 181 countries, formed by colonial-era migration to Japan, Manchuria, and Sakhalin, post-1960s emigration to North America, and a 200,000-strong adoptee diaspora.
Korean migration to Manchuria
Korean migration to Manchuria was the settlement of Koreans in northeast China, especially Gando, from the 1860s through 1945, creating the base of the independence movement.
Koreans (한국인)
Koreans (한국인, Han minjok) are the East Asian ethnic people of the Korean Peninsula and its worldwide diaspora. About 96% of South Koreans are ethnically Korean; roughly 7 million Koreans live abroad; genetically an admixed northern-southern East Asian group.
Koreans in China
Koreans in China (Chaoxianzu) are an officially recognized ethnic minority of the People's Republic of China. Numbering over 1.7 million in 2020, they are concentrated in Jilin and Yanbian, known for rice cultivation.
Koreans in Japan (在日韓国・朝鮮人)
Zainichi Koreans (在日韓国・朝鮮人) are ethnic Korean residents of Japan descended from colonial-era migrants of 1910–1945. Key facts: wartime peak of 2 million, 600,000 by 1948, special permanent residency, Chongryon-affiliated Chosǒn schools, and continuing hate-speech discrimination.
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.
Koryo-saram
Koryo-saram (고려사람, Koryo-in) are ethnic Koreans of the former Soviet Union, mainly Central Asia, formed by the 1937 Stalin deportation of about 172,000 Koreans from the Russian Far East; Russian-speaking, with the moribund Koryo-mar dialect and large return migration to South Korea.
Kosovo Albanians
Kosovo Albanians (Shqiptarët e Kosovës) are the ethnic Albanian majority of Kosovo, about 90.79% of the 2024 census population, shaped by Ottoman rule, Yugoslav autonomy, the 1998-1999 war, and the 2008 declaration of independence.