In another region, officials recently helped one indigenous group, the Arhuacos, reclaim land from paramilitary fighters.
Jared Diamond, a biogeographer, says their mystery makes the Ainu the world's most studied indigenous group.
In the late 90s, an isolated indigenous group in Colombia captured world headlines with an almost Avatar-esque conflict.
For centuries, the island was inhabited only by Ainu, an indigenous group, and was too cold to grow rice.
The members of the Kichwa indigenous group are custodians of swaths of the most biodiverse areas in the world.
The Bodos are an indigenous group in Assam, making up 10% of the state's 33 million people.
The Kichwa indigenous group have moved from spears and blowpipes to guns and eco-tourism within three generations.
The state is inhabited largely by Warao Indians, a nomadic indigenous group said to number more than 20,000.
The Mapuche are Chile's largest indigenous group, numbering about 1 million in a country of about 17 million people.
Mamdhur is a farmer from an indigenous group who lives with his family in the foothills of the Nepal Himalaya.
In 2003 Canada recognized the Métis as an indigenous group with the same broad rights as other First Nations peoples.
