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Ngāti Kahungunu
Ngāti Kahungunu, a Māori iwi of New Zealand's east coast from Māhia Peninsula to Cape Palliser, descends from Kahungunu of the Tākitimu canoe; third-largest iwi, 95,751 affiliates at the 2023 Census, governed by Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated.
Ngāti Porou
Ngāti Porou is a Māori iwi on New Zealand's East Coast. Its governance entity, Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou, negotiated a $110 million Treaty settlement in 2010.
Ngāti Toa
Ngāti Toa (Ngāti Toarangatira), a Tainui-descended Māori iwi from Kāwhia, migrated south under Te Rauparaha in the 1820s, dominated the Cook Strait region from Kāpiti Island, and settled with the Crown in 2014.
Nguni people
The Nguni (also Ngoni) are a southern African Bantu-speaking people group including the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Ndebele, historically settled along the east coast between the Drakensberg and the sea, dispersed widely by the 19th-century Mfecane.
Niantic people
The Niantic (Nehantic) were an Algonquian-speaking Native American people of eastern Connecticut and western Rhode Island, split into Eastern and Western divisions by Pequot expansion and devastated in the Pequot and King Philip's wars.
Nicarao migration into Nicaragua
The Nicarao migration was the movement of Nahuat-speaking peoples from central and southern Mexico into Pacific Nicaragua, conventionally dated to about AD 1200 within a broader migration wave of AD 700 to 1350.
Nick McKenzie
Nick McKenzie, Australian investigative journalist at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, ABC cadet from 2002, twenty-time Walkley winner whose Roberts-Smith war crimes reporting survived a landmark defamation case.
Nicola Forrest
Nicola Forrest AO is an Australian philanthropist, CEO and co-founder (with Andrew Forrest) of the Minderoo Foundation, first Australian Giving Pledge signatories, donor of the $400 million 2017 gift, separated from Andrew Forrest in July 2023.
Nigerian Americans
Nigerian Americans are Americans of Nigerian birth or ancestry, formed largely by post-1965 immigration. Known for very high educational attainment, strong hometown and ethnic organizations, and distinctive dual Nigerian-American identity.
Nigerian diaspora
The Nigerian diaspora is the population of people of Nigerian nationality or descent living outside Nigeria, estimated at 2 to 17 million and remitting over $20 billion a year.
Nigerians
Nigerians: citizens of Nigeria and people of Nigerian ancestry, a civic nationality of 250+ ethnic groups (Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo largest), about 237 million people, half Muslim and half Christian, with a 15-17 million diaspora sending $25 billion in remittances (2019).
Night Wolves (Ночные волки)
Night Wolves (Ночные волки) is a Russian nationalist motorcycle club founded in Moscow, officially named 31 May 1989, led by Alexander "The Surgeon" Zaldostanov, with about 5,000 members and dozens of chapters, close Kremlin ties, Wolf Holding businesses, and US, Canadian, and EU sanctions.
Nikki Haskell
Nikki Haskell (born 1941) is an American socialite, one of Wall Street's first female stockbrokers, host of The Nikki Haskell Show, a Studio 54 fixture, and StarCap diet-pill entrepreneur bankrupted by NFL players' bumetanide lawsuits.
Nilotic peoples
Nilotic peoples are groups across South Sudan and East Africa defined by speaking Nilotic languages, including the Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Luo, Maasai, and Turkana, mostly semi-nomadic herders.
Ninbetsu aratame
Ninbetsu aratame (人別改) was an Edo-period Japanese population survey in which village and town officials registered commoner households, producing the household register known as the ninbetsu-chō.
Nisei (二世)
Nisei (二世), "second generation": American-born children of Japanese Issei immigrants. About 33,000 served in WWII, in the 100th/442nd and Military Intelligence Service, while over 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated.
Nivkh people
The Nivkh, formerly known as the Gilyaks, are an indigenous people of the Russian Far East who live along the lower Amur River and on Sakhalin Island, speaking the language isolate Nivkh.
Nobility
Nobility: a hereditary legal status above commoners, distinct from aristocracy (the leading noble families). Covers origins, European consolidation 1300–1750, ministeriales, Chinese aristocracy's fall, and modern peerages.
Noblesse oblige
Noblesse oblige, French for "nobility obliges", is a phrase for the moral duty of the high-born or privileged to act honorably and generously; attested in English by 1837, often ironic in British usage.
Non-Hispanic whites
Non-Hispanic whites: U.S. residents reporting White race and non-Hispanic origin, 191.7 million (57.8%) in the 2020 census, the largest group, declining in both count and share; also called White alone non-Hispanic.
Nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization, also known as a not-for-profit, is an organization whose surplus earnings cannot be distributed to owners or members; examples range from charities to universities.
Norby Walters
Norby Walters, American music booking agent who with Lloyd Bloom ran World Sports & Entertainment, secretly signing college football players; convicted of racketeering and mail fraud in 1989, reversed on appeal in 1990.
Nordic race
Nordic race: a discredited historical racial category describing tall, blond, long-skulled northern Europeans as a superior race; central to Nordicism, eugenics, and Nazi racial ideology, and rejected as pseudoscience by interwar Scandinavian anthropologists.
Nordicism
Nordicism: racial ideology holding a superior, endangered Nordic race; key works by Gobineau, Chamberlain, and Madison Grant; linked to eugenics, the 1924 US Immigration Act, Nazism, and modern white nationalism. Distinct from pan-nationalist Nordism.
Norman Swan
Norman Swan (Norman Swirsky, born 1953, Glasgow) is a Scottish-born Australian physician-broadcaster who created ABC Radio National's Health Report, exposed the McBride research fraud, and co-hosted Coronacast during COVID-19.
North Germanic peoples
North Germanic peoples are the Scandinavian and Icelandic peoples speaking the North Germanic branch of Germanic: Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, Faroese. Covers Proto-Norse to Old Norse origins, Viking Age identity, kingdom formation, and modern languages with about 20 million speakers.
North Korean defectors
North Korean defectors (북한이탈주민) are people who flee North Korea, mostly via China, to resettle chiefly in South Korea: about 34,600 arrivals since the Korean War, peaking at 2,914 in 2009, supported by Hanawon and Hana Centers.
Northeastern migration to São Paulo
Northeastern migration to São Paulo is the large-scale movement of people from Brazil's Northeast to São Paulo, most intense from the 1950s to 1970s, driven by drought and industrialization.
Northern Ndebele people
The Northern Ndebele people, also known as the Matabele, are a Nguni-speaking people of southwestern Zimbabwe who speak isiNdebele and make up about 15 percent of the country's population.
Norwegian Americans
Norwegian Americans, descendants of the nearly 1 million Norwegians who emigrated to the United States between 1820 and 1920, beginning with the 1825 sloop Restauration, concentrated in the Upper Midwest and Minnesota.