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Mossi people
The Mossi are a West African people and Burkina Faso's largest ethnic group, about 54 percent of the population in 2021, known for the pre-colonial Mossi kingdoms of the Volta Basin.
Mosuo (摩梭)
Mosuo (摩梭), also called Na, an ethnic group of about 40,000 around Lugu Lake, Yunnan/Sichuan, China, known for matrilineal households, duolocal residence, and 'walking marriages' (Sese/Zouhun); distinct from the Naxi and from true matriarchy.
Motorcycle club
Motorcycle club (MC): an organized rider association with elected officer roles (president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, road captain), a hang-around-to-full-member progression, and chapter or charter governance; distinguished from riding clubs and from 1% outlaw clubs.
Mountain Jews
Mountain Jews (Juhur) are a Jewish ethno-linguistic group of Dagestan and Azerbaijan speaking Juhuri (Judeo-Tat), an Iranian language; reclassified as "Tats" under Soviet rule, with Red Village in Azerbaijan their best-known settlement.
Moving Day (Boston)
Moving Day (Boston): the annual September 1 lease turnover when an estimated 70-79% of Boston rentals change hands. Also called Allston Christmas; documented since an 1899 Globe article; formerly May 1.
Mozambican refugee crisis in Malawi
The Mozambican refugee crisis in Malawi was the mass flight from Mozambique's civil war into Malawi, peaking at 1.06 million refugees in 1992 before mass repatriation.
Muckleshoot
The Muckleshoot (bəqəlšuł) are a federally recognized Washington tribe of Duwamish and Upper Puyallup descent, holding rights under the 1854 Medicine Creek and 1855 Point Elliott treaties, with an 1857 reservation near Auburn and the 1974 Boldt fishing-rights ruling.
Mudaliar (முதலியார்)
Mudaliar (முதலியார்), also Mudaliyar or Moodley, is a Tamil title meaning person of first rank, borne chiefly by Thondaimandalam Vellalar families and other Tamil castes, not a single caste name.
Mukkulathor (முக்குலத்தோர்)
Mukkulathor (Thevar), a consolidated caste formation of the Kallar, Maravar, and Agamudayar communities of central and southern Tamil Nadu, India; OBC-classified, unified by Muthuramalinga Thevar, and politically influential.
Mulatto
Mulatto (Spanish/Portuguese mulato) is a historical, now offensive English term for a person of mixed Black and white ancestry; a US census category 1850–1930, with blood-quantum subdivisions, and still used descriptively in Latin America.
Multiracial Americans
Multiracial Americans, also called the Two or More Races population, are people reporting more than one race in U.S. census data; counted at 33.8 million (10.2%) in 2020 versus 9 million in 2010, with estimates varying sharply by question format.
Multiracial people
Multiracial people are those of more than one racial ancestry or identity. Coverage spans US census history (one-drop rule, 2000 multiple-race option), the disputed 2020 count of 33.8 million, Brazil's pardo category, and measurement reliability problems.
Munda people
Munda people: an Adivasi (tribal) people of eastern India, chiefly Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal, speaking Munda languages of the Austroasiatic family; about 11 million Munda speakers, associated with Birsa Munda and the 1908 protective tenancy law.
Muscogee
Muscogee (Mvskoke), also called Creek, a Native American people of the Southeast whose Muscogee (Creek) Nation, headquartered in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, is the fourth-largest US tribe; known for its town confederacy, the Creek War, Trail of Tears removal, and 2020 McGirt reservation ruling.
Musk Foundation
Musk Foundation: Elon Musk's private philanthropic foundation (founded 2002, Austin, Texas), funding renewable energy, space exploration, pediatric research, STEM education, and safe AI; record $474 million granted in 2024, mostly to Musk-affiliated entities, with repeated shortfalls against the 5% payout rule.
Muslim Gurjars
Muslim Gurjars (Gujjars) are Muslim members of the Gurjar clan of northern South Asia, converted during the Muslim conquest; largest population in Jammu and Kashmir as the biggest Scheduled Tribe, now largely settled.
Muslim population growth
Muslim population growth: worldwide increase of Muslims, 1.7 billion (2010) to 2.0 billion (2020), 21% growth, twice the rest of the world; driven by fertility of 3.1 and young age structure, per Pew projections.
Muslim Rajputs
Muslim Rajputs are South Asian Muslim communities claiming Rajput descent, such as the Kyamkhanis of Rajasthan and the Rangars of Haryana and Punjab, who retained clan names, genealogies, and warrior identity after conversion to Islam.
Muthulakshmi
Muthulakshmi, chiefly Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy (முத்துலட்சுமி ரெட்டி, 1886–1968), first woman legislator in British India, first Madras Presidency woman medical graduate, devadasi abolitionist, and founder of the Adyar Cancer Institute.
Mychal Judge
Mychal Judge (1933-2001), born Robert Emmett Judge, was a Franciscan priest and FDNY chaplain from 1992, an AIDS and AA minister, and the first officially recorded 9/11 victim, Victim 0001.
Myra Kraft
Myra Hiatt Kraft (1942-2011), American philanthropist, wife of Patriots owner Robert Kraft; first woman chair of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, president of the Patriots Charitable Foundation, namesake of the Myra Kraft Community MVP Award.
N-po generation (N포 세대)
N-po generation (N포 세대) is a South Korean neologism for youth who give up an indefinite number of life goals, extending the 3-po, 5-po, and 7-po ladder of renouncing dating, marriage, children, housing, relationships, and hope.
Nacirema
Nacirema: fictional tribe invented by Horace Miner's 1956 satirical essay "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" in American Anthropologist; "American" spelled backward, describing US hospitals (latipso) and dentists (holy-mouth-men) as exotic rituals to teach ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
Nadar (caste)
Nadars, formerly called Shanar or Channar, are a Tamil-speaking caste of southern Tamil Nadu and southern Kerala, traditionally toddy tappers, now a prominent OBC business community with the Nadar Mahajana Sangam (1910) as its apex association.
Nadia Milleron
Nadia Donya Milleron, niece of Ralph Nader, is an independent attorney, farmer, and congressional candidate in Massachusetts's 1st District who became an aviation safety advocate after her daughter Samya Stumo died in the 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash.
Naga people
Naga peoples: Tibeto-Burman ethnic communities of the Chindwin–Brahmaputra highlands across Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Myanmar's Sagaing Region; predominantly Christian, clan-based, with Nagamese as lingua franca.
Nagarathar (நகரத்தார்)
Nagarathar (Nattukottai Chettiar, Nakarattar), Tamil merchant-banking caste of Chettinad, Tamil Nadu; ran a hundi-based banking system across Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya, 1870–1930, with clan temples and Chettinad mansions on the UNESCO tentative list.
Nahuas
Nahuas: the peoples of Mexico speaking Nahuatl, the Mexican language; 1,651,958 speakers in the 2020 census, distributed across ten-plus states, heirs of Central Mexican pre-Hispanic cultures, with 30 recognized language variants and medium-risk vitality.
Nair
Nair (Nayar), a large matrilineal caste cluster of Kerala, historically martial landholders (jenmis) below the Namboodiri Brahmins, known for marumakkathayam taravads, sambandham unions, and the 1925 Travancore Nair Regulation ending taravad partition rules.
Names of the Romani people
Names of the Romani people: endonyms Rom, Roma, Romani ("man" in Romani) versus exonyms Gypsy (from Egyptian), Zigeuner/tsigane (from Greek Athinganos), plus group names Sinti, Kale, Dom, Lom and institutional usage.