List of ethnic groups

This is a list of names of ethnic groups. A group can have several names (e.g., names in English language and in native language, obsolete names, versions of spelling, etc.)

A

• Abenaki – Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine (Algonquin people)
• Abkhaz – Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, majority (since 1993 civil war) in Abkhazia
• Acadian – French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes
• Accohannock – Native Americans of Maryland
• Achang – Yunnan, China
• Achomawi – Native Americans of California
• Acoma – Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
• Adja – Minority in Benin
• Adyghe – Minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region.
• Afar – Minority in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as Danakil
• African-American – Descendants of African slaves brought to North America
• Afrikaners – Descendents of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot refugees & German Protestants of southern Africa
• Afro-Cuban
• Afromestizos
• Afro-Trinidadian
• Agni – minority group in Côte d'Ivoire
• Aguls – Dagestani minority group
• Ahtna – Native Alaskans, along the Copper River
• Aimaks – Minority group in Afghanistan
• Aimaq – Minority group in Afghanistan
• Ainu – Natives of Hokkaido, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshu, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin
• Aja – Minority group in Benin
• Ak Chin – Native American group now resident in Pinal County, Arizona on the Tohono O'odham reservation
• Akan – People of West Africa, inhabiting principally Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire and Togo
• Akha
• Alabama – Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta
• Alak – from Laos
• Albanians – Natives of the south-west Balkans, principally residing in Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Greece.
• Aleut – Natives of Alaska, and the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories
• Algonquian – Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada
• Altaic peoples – Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altai Mountains region
• American – Heterogeneous population of primarily English and Spanish speaking people with a similar culture living in the United States.
• Americo-Liberians – Descendants of African slaves repatriated to Liberia
• Amhara – Indigenous people of central Ethiopia
• Amish – North American religious minority, of German descent
• Amungme
• Andorrans – Inhabitants of a small nation between France and Spain
• Anglo-Celtic Australian – Inhabitants of Australia with British descent
• Anglo-Indian – Offspring of mixed Indian and British parents resident in India
• Anglo-Saxon – Often used to mean a person of English ancestry
• Annamites – A people of Mongolian descent living in Vietnam.
• Apaches – groups of Native Americans in the western plains of the United States
• Apinaje
• Arab – originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa
• Aramean – Semitic people of the Middle East, chiefly resident in Syria
• Arapaho – Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
• Araucanian – Non-homogenous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina
• Arawak – natives of the Caribbean
• Arikara – Native American people from the upper Midwest
• Armenians – natives of the Caucasus region, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, with a large worldwide diaspora
• Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) – a population living as a minority in Northern Greece, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
• Arubans – Dutch-colonized island in the Caribbean
• Arvanites
• Asheninka
• Assiniboine – Native American people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
• Assyrians – Middle Eastern, principally in Syria
• Atikamekw
• Atsina – Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
• Atsugewi
• Australian aborigine – generic name for native inhabitants of Australia
• Austrians
• Avars – inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan
• Awá – an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers
• Aymaras – South American people of Bolivia and Peru
• Azeris – Turkic people living in Caucasus, mostly in Azerbaijan, as well as in northwestern parts of Iran
• Aztecs – Central American people, descendants widespread in Mexico

B

• Ba Na
• Baggara or Baqqarah – Sudan
• Baguirmi – inhabitants of Chad
• Bai – national minority of China, inhabiting Yunnan province
• Bajau – Sea Gypsies of Borneo; touch land only to bury their dead.
• Baka – one of the Pygmy peoples of central Africa. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti, Binga and Gelli Efé.
• Bakongo – majority population of the Republic of the Congo; also living in Angola
• Balkars – people of the northern Caucasus, mainly inhabiting the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
• Baloch (also Baluch) – traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Baluchistan
• Bambara – group living chiefly in Mali and Guinea
• Bamileke – majority inhabitants of Cameroon
• Banawa
• Banda – one of the peoples of the Central African Republic
• Bandjabi
• Bantu – ethnic group widespread in central and southern Africa
• Baoule – major ethnic group in Côte d'Ivoire
• Bapou
• Bariba – national minority in Benin
• Basarwa – ethnic minority in Botswana
• Bashkirs (or Bashkhirs) – people of east central Russia, inhabiting principally Bashkortostan
• Basotho – inhabitants of Lesotho
• Basques – located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France
• Bassa – people of Liberia
• Bassari
• Baster (also known as Baaster) – people descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black African women
• Bate Boiko
• Bateke – minority group in the Republic of the Congo
• Batswana – largest ethnic group in Botswana
• Bavarians – inhabitant of the German state of Bavaria, with a distinctive dialect of High German
• Baya-Mandjia
• Bedouins – nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East
• Beja – nomadic group in northern Eritrea, southern Egypt, and northeastern Sudan
• Belarusians – Slavic people of eastern Europe, Belarus
• Bengalis – South Asian people, inhabiting Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal
• Berbers – a North African people, living in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt
• Betammaribe
• Bethio
• Beti-Pahuin – group of peoples from Central Africa
• Bhotia – majority population of Bhutan, of Tibetan descent
• Biafrans – inhabitant of eastern Nigerian region (see also Ibo)
• Bit
• Blackfeet (or Blackfoot) – group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains, comprising the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes.
• Bo Y
• Bonan
• Bosniak – Muslim Slavic people of southeastern Europe, inhabiting chiefly Bosnia and Serbia
• Bouganvilleans – inhabitants of island near Papua New Guinea
• Brau
• Bretons – Celtic group in northwest France
• Bru-Van Kieu – Vietnam
• Brulé – Native American people inhabiting parts of Nebraska and South Dakota; one of the Sioux peoples
• Bubi minority ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea Majority Ethnic group on the island of Bioko
• Bulang
• Bulgars – an ancient people of central Asia
• Bulgarians – Slavic people of southeastern Europe
• Bunjevci – Slavic people of the Balkans
• Buryats – people of the eastern Russian republic of Buryatia
• Bushongo – inhabitants of the Congo region
• Buyi – national minority of China

C

• Caddo – Native American peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.
• Cahuilla
• Caingang
• Cajuns – French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
• Canaanites
• Cape Coloured – mixed-race population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
• Cape Malay – Malay-descended population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
• Caprivian – inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia
• Caribs – group of Native American peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the east coast of Central America; now mostly extinct
• Caripuna
• Carrier – Native American people of Canada, one of the Athabaskan group of peoples
• Catalans – inhabitants of north-eastern Spain and southwestern France
• Catawba – Native Americans from the Carolina region of the United States, now resident in western South Carolina
• Cayuga – Native American people of New York state, now resident in Wisconsin and Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois group of peoples
• Cayuse – Native American people of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington
• Cham – a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam
• Chechens – inhabitants of northern Caucasus, chiefly in Chechnya in Russia
• Chehalis
• Chemakum
• Chemehuevi – Native American people of the southwest United States
• Chepang
• Chere
• Cherokee – Native American people originally of Tennessee and North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma
• Cheyenne – Native American people of the Great Plains of the United States
• Chicano – a United States citizen of Mexican origin
• Chickahominee
• Chickasaw – Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma
• Chilcotin – Native American inhabitants of British Columbia
• Chinookan – members of a number of Native American peoples living in the Columbia River valley in Washington and Oregon
• Chipewyan – Native American people of northwest Canada
• Chippewa – Native American people inhabiting the Great Lakes region of Canada and also living in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Montana
• Chitimacha
• Cho Ro
• Choctaw – Native American people formerly of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma
• Chukchansi
• Chumash – Group of Native American peoples inhabiting coastal southern California
• Chut
• Ciboney – Mesoamerican inhabitants of Cuba, now extinct
• Clayoquot – Native American people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
• Co
• Co Ho
• Co Lao
• Co Tu
• Coast Salish – Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
• Cochiti – Native American people of the southwestern United States
• Cocopah
• Coeur d'Alene – Native American people of the Rocky Mountains
• Coharie
• Coloured – term used to denote mixed-race inhabitants of South Africa. See also Cape Coloured
• Colville – Native American people inhabiting Washington; one of the Salish tribes
• Comanche – Native American people inhabiting Oklahoma, Texas, California and New Mexico
• Cong
• Coquille
• Cornish – Celtic group in the southwest of Britain
• Corsicans – inhabitants of island off the south coast of France
• Costanoan – Native American people of central California, one of the Mission Indian peoples
• Coushatta – Native American now resident in Texas. See also Alabama
• Cowichan – Native American inhabitants of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
• Cowlitz – Native American people of western Washington; one of the Salish peoples
• Cree – widely dispersed Native American people inhabiting the northern United States and Canada
• Creek – Native American people originally of Alabama but now mostly residing in Oklahoma
• Créole – referring either to people of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and European ancestry in Alaska
• Croats – Slavic people of southeastern Europe
• Crow – Native American people of the northern Great Plains, now chiefly residing in southeast Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
• Cupeno
• Czechs – Slavic people of central Europe

D

• Dagestani peoples – indigenous groups of northern Caucasus
• Dai (Thai, Thai Lue)
• Dakota
• Damara
• Dargins – Dagestani
• Dao
• Daur
• De'ang
• Delaware – Eastern United States Native American
• Dendi
• Danish – Germanic people of Scandinavia
• Diegueno
• Dinka
• Diola
• Dominican – from the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola
• Dong
• Dongxiang
• Drung
• Du
• Dutch – Germanic people of northern Europe

E

• E De
• English – Germanic group dwelling in the lowlands of Great Britain
• Enxet
• Eritrean – formerly of Ethiopia, on the Red Sea
• Eshira
• Eskimo – see Inuit
• Esselen
• Estonian – Finno-Ugric people of northeastern Europe
• Evenks

F

• Faroese – Germanic group of the Faroe Islands between Iceland and Scotland.
• Fijian – Polynesian group, central South Pacific Ocean
• Filipino
• Finns – Ethnic group in Finland and Scandinavia, west of Russia
• Flemish – Belgium and the Netherlands
• Fon – Togo, Benin
• Fur – western Sudan (Darfur)
• French – western European
• French American
• French Creole – of Haiti
• French Canadian – of French Canadian culture, historically self-identified as Canadiens, then later as Canadiens-français and those today living in the province of Quebec as Québécois. See also Québécois, Métis and Acadians.
• Frisian – Germanic group on a few islands in the North Sea
• Fula
• Fulani
• Fulbe
• Fulfulde
• Fulni-o

G

• Gaelic – Irish, Scottish and Manx Celtic group
• Gagauz
• Galician – people of Celtic origin in northwestern Spain
• Gaoshan
• Garifuna
• Ge – northern South America, Caribbean coast
• Gelao
• Georgian – Caucasus region, of Georgia
• ethnic German – with to German culture and German language
• Gia Rai
• Giay
• Gie Trieng
• Gongduk
• Gorani – Slavic people in Serbia
• Goshute
• Goulaye
• Greeks, ethnic Greeks – southeastern Europe
• Greenlander – inhabitants of the island in the northern Atlantic
• Griqua – South Africa
• Gros Ventre
• Guajajara
• Guarani
• Gurage – Ethiopia
• Gurung

H

• H'Re
• Ha-Nhi
• Haida – Pacific Northwest Native Americans
• Hakka
• Haliwa-Sapponi
• Han Chinese – dominant ethnic group of China
• Hani
• Havasupai
• Haw
• Hawaiian – Polynesian indigenous people of the island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Hazara
• Hercegovinian – arguably regional group of Croats and Serbs in Herzegovina
• Herero
• Hesquiat
• Hezhen
• Hidatsa
• Himba
• Hmong – Southeast Asia
• Ho-Chunk
• Hoa
• Houma
• Hoh
• Hohokam
• Hoklo
• Holikachuk
• Hopi – Native American, of the southwest United States
• Hui Chinese
• Hungarian – Finno-Ugric people of central Europe
• Hualapai – Natives of Mesoamerica
• Hupa
• Huastec
• Huron – Eastern United States Native American
• Hutu – Rwanda
• Hyksos -

I

• Icelandic – North Atlantic island
• Illinois
• Incan – Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru
• Ingushes – Ingushetia, northern Caucasus
• Ingalik – Natives of Alaska
• Innu – Native Americans of eastern Canada
• Inuit – Widespread in Alaska and northern Canada
• Iowa
• Irish – Island west of Britain, Celtic
• Iroquois – Native Americans once widespread in the eastern United States and Canada
• Isleta – Natives from New Mexico
• Isoko
• Istro-Romanian – Istria
• Italian – from the Apennine peninsula in the south of Europe

J

• Jamaican – mixture of African slaves, Central American natives and English settlers, Caribbean
• Jacaltec – Maya people in Guatemala
• Japanese people, ethnic Japanese – from the islands off the east coast of Asia
• Javanese – especially middle to eastern part of Java, Indonesia
• Jat
• Jemez
• Jewish – widespread religion and nation, also concentrated in Israel
• Jing
• Jingpo
• Jino
• Jivaroan
• Jola
• Jopadhola
• Jri

K

• Kalispel
• Karaja
• Karamanlides
• Karen – southeast Asia
• Karok
• Kashubians – a Slavic people of northern Europe
• Katang
• Kato
• Katu
• Katuquina
• Kavango
• Kaw
• Kaxinawa
• Kazakh – Turkic/Mongol people of central Asia
• Keresan
• Khakas
• Khang
• Khazars
• Khmer – southeast Asia, Cambodia
• Khmu
• Kho Mu
• Khomani or N/u
• Khoikhoi – Southern Africa
• Kickapoo
• Kinh
• Kiowa – Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States
• Kirghiz – Turkic people of central Asia
• Klallam
• Klamath – Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
• Klikitat
• Kolchan
• Kootenai
• Korean – from a peninsula in Asia, south of Manchuria (China) and across the sea from Japan
• Koskimo
• Koyukon – Natives of Alaska
• Kpelle – Group from Guinea, western Africa
• Kraho – Natives of northwestern Brazil
• Kri – Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa
• Kui
• Kumeyaay
• Kumyks – Turkic people of northern Caucacus
• Kurd – large minority in Turkey, Iraq, Iran
• Kutenai
• Kwakiutl – of the Washington/British Columbia area

L

• La Chi
• La Ha
• La Hu
• Laguna
• Lahu
• Laks – Caucacus
• Lakota – Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada
• Lamet
• Lao Sung – China, Vietnam, Laos
• Lao Theung – Laos
• Lao – southeast Asia
• Latino – Mixed native South or Central American, Spanish or Portuguese and African
• Latvians – Baltic people of northeastern Europe
• Lavae
• Laven
• Lavi
• Lebou
• Lenca
• Lezgis – Dagestani
• Lhoba
• Li Chinese
• Limbus
• Lipovans – Danube Delta, Romania
• Lisu
• Lithuanians – Baltic people of northeastern Europe
• Lobi
• Lo Lo
• Lotuko
• Low Saxon – Northern Germany
• Lu
• Lue
• Luiseno
• Lumbee
• Lummi

M

• M'Baka
• Ma
• Macedonian Slavs – Slavic people of southeastern Europe
• Macuxi
• Madurese
• Magar
• Mahican – Native Americans from New England
• Maidu
• Maingtha – see Achang
• Maka-Njem – people of southern Cameroon
• Makah
• Makua
• Makong
• Malabo
• Malay – dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
• Maliseet
• Maltese – syncretist group in the Mediterranean
• Mam – a Maya people of Guatemala
• Manchu – Manchuria, now part of China, north of Korea
• Mandan
• Mang
• Manx – Celts of the Isle of Man
• Maonan
• Mapuche
• Maricopa
• Marquesas – Polynesian island chain in the Eastern Pacific
• Maori – indigenous people of New Zealand
• Mashantucket Pequots – Native Americans of New England
• Mattaponi
• Matabele – Southern Africa
• Maubere
• Maya – natives of south-east Mexico and northern Central America, widespread
• Me-Wuk
• Megleno-Romanians – in Greece
• Meherrin
• Melungeon
• Memon – India and Pakistan
• Menba
• Menominee – Eastern United States Native American
• Métis
• Miami
• Miao
• Miccosukee – Eastern United States Native American
• Mi'kmaq – Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American
• Mina
• Minahasa – Indonesia
• Mingo
• Mission
• Miwok
• Mixtec – Central American natives
• Mnong
• Modoc
• Mohave – Native Americans of the southwest United States
• Mohawk – Eastern United States Native American
• Mohegan
• Moldovan – Romanians people of Moldova, eastern Europe
• Mon – southeast Asia, particularly Thailand
• Monacan – Native American ethnic group, not to be confused with a person from Monaco
• Mongol – Central Asia, between Russia and China
• Mono
• Montaukett
• Montenegrin – Slavicized Descendents of the Dinaric peoples of southeastern Europe
• Moor – Descendants of Arab invaders of the Hispanic Peninsula
• Moriori – indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
• Muckleshoot
• Mulam
• Muong
• Museu
• Myene

N

• Nahanni
• Nama
• Nansemond
• Narragansett – natives of New England
• Nauruan – Micronesian group of islands in the Pacific Ocean
• Navajo – Native Americans of the southwest United States
• Naxi
• Ndau
• Nepalese – south Asia, between India and China
• Nespelim
• Netizen – The indigenous people of the Internet
• Newar
• Nez Perce – Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
• Ngac'ang – See Achang
• Ngae
• Nhahuen
• Nhuon
• Ni-Vanuatu – of Vanuatu, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Niominka
• Nipmuc
• Nishka
• Nisqually
• Niuean – Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean
• Nogais – Tatars of Dagestan
• Nomlaki
• Nooksack – Native Americans of Washington
• Nu
• N/u or Khomani
• Nung
• Nuu-chah-nulth – Native Americans of the pacific northwest of North America.

O

• O Du
• Oglala – Native Americans of the central United States
• Oi
• Ojibwa
• Okamba
• Okande
• Olmec
• Omaha
• Oneida
• Onondangua
• Oromo – Ethiopia
• Oroqin
• Osage Nation of Oklahoma (formerly also of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas)
• Otoe-Missouria
• Ottawa
• Ovambo

P

• Pa Then
• Paiute
• Pakeha – white New Zealanders, typically born in New Zealand with British or Irish ancestory
• Pakoh
• Palestinian – much-disputed ethnic group of the Middle East
• Pamunkey
• Panoan
• Pashtun – large group in Afghanistan
• Passamaquoddy
• Patagonian – southern tip of South America, Argentina
• Pataxo
• Paugusset
• Pawnee – Eastern United States Native American
• Pennsylvania Dutch – Pennsylvania Dutch speaking people of many religious affiliations in the United States, originally from Germany, Switzerland and Alsace
• Penobscot – Eastern United States Native American
• Peoria
• Persians – Persian speaking people in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan
• Phong
• Phu La
• Phu Noi
• Phu Thai
• Piegan
• Pima
• Pit River Indians
• Pitcairn-Norfolk
• Polish – Slavic people of central-northern Europe
• Pomaks – in Greece
• Pomo
• Ponca
• Poospatuck
• Portuguese – extreme southwest of Europe
• Potawatomi – Eastern United States Native American
• Potiguara
• Powhatan – Eastern United States Native American
• Pu Peo
• Pueblo people – Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area
• Puelche
• Puget Sound Salish – of Washington
• Punjabi
• Pumi
• Puyallup

Q

• Quahatika
• Quapaw
• Quechan
• Qiang
• Quiché
• Quileute
• Quinault

R

• Ra Glai
• Rais
• Ramapough Mountain Indians
• Rappahannock – of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States
• Rashaida – minority group in Sudan, closely related to the Bedouin
• Ro Mam
• Roma – one of the two groups more commonly known as Gypsies
• Romanian – Eastern European
• Russian – Slavic people of eastern Europe, originally of Moscow area, now widespread through Siberia and the Urals to the Pacific Ocean
• Rusyns (Ruthenes)
• Rutuls – Dagestani
• Ryukyuans – the native inhabitants of the Ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200km southwest of the Japanese mainland. They are usually subgrouped as follows: Northern Ryukyuans are further subdivided into Amamians and Okinawans, and Southern Ryukyuans are further subdivided into Miyakoans, Yaeyamans, and Yonagunians

S

• S'Klallam
• Sami – indigenous people of northern Scandinavia and Siberia
• Samoan – Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Sadang
• Saek
• Salar
• Salish – of Washington and British Columbia
• Samaritan
• Samtao
• San
• San Chay
• San Diu
• Sardinians – inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean
• Sauk
• Sauk-Suiattle
• Scandinavian
• Scottish – a predominantly Celtic group dwelling in the north of Britain
• Scotch-Irish – descendents of Ulster-Scots who migrated to North America
• Sekani
• Seminole – natives of Florida
• Semitic
• Sena
• Seneca – Native Americans of the New York area
• Serbs – Slavic people of southeastern Europe (Balkans)
• Serer
• Serer-Ndut
• Shangaan
• Shankella – Ethiopia
• Shasta tribe
• Shawnee
• She
• Sherpa – group in Nepal and the Himalaya
• Shinnecock
• Shoalwater Bay Tribe
• Shoshone
• Shui
• Si La
• Sicilian – inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean
• Sidamo – Ethiopia
• Siksika
• Siletz
• Singmun
• Sinhalese – group widespread in southern India and Sri Lanka
• Sinti – one of the two main groups of Gypsies
• Sioux – Northern Central United States
• Siuslaw
• Slavic
• Slovak – Slavic people of central Europe
• Slovene – Slavic people of central Europe
• Slovincian – in Pomerania
• Skokomish
• Somali – eastern Africa
• Somba
• Sorbic – concentrated Slavic minority in Germany
• Soso- Guinea,Conakry
• Souei
• Spanish – southwestern Europe
• Spokane
• Squaxin Island Tribe
• Stillaguamish
• Sundanese – western part of Java, Indonesia
• Suquamish
• Swazi – southern Africa, Swaziland
• Swinomish

T

• Ta Oi
• Tabasarans – Dagestani
• Tache
• Tachi
• Tagish
• Tahitian – Pacific Ocean island, Polynesia
• Taíno – natives of the Caribbean
• Tajik – specific ethnic group of central Asia
• Taliang
• Tamil – of India and Sri Lanka
• Tanaina
• Tanana
• Taos
• Tapuia
• Tarascan
• Tatars – Turkic people
• Tats – Dagestani
• Tay
• Tehuelche
• Tejano – Latino immigrants to Texas
• Teotihuacan
• Terena
• Tetons – Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
• Tewa
• Thai – southeast Asia
• Tharu
• Thin
• Tho
• Tibetan – currently under Chinese rule, Central Asia
• Ticuna
• Tigre – Ethiopia
• Tigua
• Tlakluit
• Tlingit – Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
• Tohono O'odham
• Tokelauan – Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Tolowa
• Toltec – Central America
• Tonkawa
• Tongan – Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Tongva
• Topachula
• Totonac
• Tsakhurs – Dagestani
• Tsetsaut
• Tsimishian – Pacific Northwest Native Americans
• Tsonga – Southern Africa
• Tsuu T'ina
• Tswana – Southern Africa (see also Batswana)
• Tualalip
• Tuareg
• Tujia
• Tukanoan
• Tukolor
• Tulutni
• Tum
• Tumbuka
• Tungus
• Tunica-Biloxi
• Tupian
• Turkish – Turkic people of the Middle East, Turkey
• Turkmen – Turkic people of Central Asia
• Tutchone
• Tutsi – of Rwanda and southern Africa
• Tuvan – Central Asian group in Russia
• Tuvaluan – Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Twa
• Tzigane

U

• Ubykh – minority Northwest Caucasian people of Manyas, Turkey
• Uighur – large Muslim minority in China
• Ukrainian – widespread Slavic people north of the Black Sea, Ukraine
• Ulster-Scots Descendents of Scots who migrated to Ulster
• Umatilla
• Umpqua
• Upper Skagit
• Ute – Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
• Uzbek – Turkic people of central Asia, Uzbekistan

V

• Venda – South Africa

W

• Wa
• Waccamaw
• Wailaki
• Welsh – Celtic nation in the west of Great Britain
• Walla Walla
• Wampanoag
• Wasco
• Washoe
• White Mountain Apache
• Wichita
• Wintun
• Wiyot
• Wolof – Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa

• Wyandot

X

• Xacriaba
• Xavante
• Xerente
• Xhosa – of South Africa
• Xibe
• Xinh Mun
• Xo Dang
• Xtieng
• Xucuru
• Xueda

Y

• Yae
• Yakama
• Yakima
• Yakut – in eastern Russia
• Yang
• Yanomami – the Amazon River basin, Brazil
• Yao
• Yavapai: Yavapai-Apache Nation, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe
• Yawanawa
• Yi
• Yocha-Dehe
• Yokut
• Yoruba – western Africa
• Yugur
• Yuki – Native Americans of northwestern California
• Yupik
• Yuma
• Yumbri
• Yurok

Z

• Zaghawa of Northeast Africa.
• Zapotec – Central America
• Zhonghua minzu – Chinese pseudo-ethnic group.
• Zhuang
• Zulu – of southern Africa
• Zuni – of the southwestern United States

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