Indigenous Peoples of Asia

Indigenous Peoples Of Asia

This is a partial list of the world's indigenous / aboriginal / native peoples. Indigenous peoples are any ethnic group of peoples who are considered to fall under one of the internationally recognized definitions of Indigenous peoples, such as United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank, i.e. "those ethnic groups that were indigenous to a territory prior to being incorporated into a national state, and who are politically and culturally separate from the majority ethnic identity of the state that they are a apart of".

Note that this is a listing of peoples, groups and communities. Many of the names are externally imposed, and are not those the people identify within their cultures. As John Trudell observed, "They change our name and treat us the same." Basic to the unethical treatment of indigenous peoples is an insistence that the original inhabitants of the land are not permitted to name themselves. Many tribal groups have reasserted their traditional self-identifying names in recent times, in a proces of geographical renaming where "The place-name changes herald a new era, in which Aboriginal people have increasing control over the right to name and govern their homelands."

This list is grouped by region, and sub-region. Note that a particular group may warrant listing under more than one region, either because the group is distributed in more than one region (example: Inuit in North America and eastern Russia), or there may be some overlap of the regions themselves (that is, the boundaries of each region are not always clear and some locations may commonly be associated with more than one region).

Antarctica Oceania Africa Asia Europe North
America South
America Pacific
Ocean Pacific
Ocean Atlantic
Ocean Indian
Ocean Southern Ocean Arctic Ocean Middle East Caribbean Central
Asia East Asia North Asia South
Asia Southeast
Asia SW.
Asia Australasia Melanesia Micronesia Polynesia Central
America Latin
America Northern
America Americas C.
Africa E.
Africa H.
Africa N.
Africa Southern
Africa W.
Africa C.
Europe E.
Europe N.
Europe S.
Europe W.
Europe