The term "hill tribe" was long and inexactly applied to the indigenous inhabitants of upland and mountain areas in South Asia. The hill tribes are and were culturally distinct groups, usually endogamous social units, bearing a tribal name...

A hill tribe is any one of around twenty ethnic groups living in Northern Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar. Most of these groups also exist outside Thailand, but the term is most often used to refer to the Thai groups. The hill tribes together number...

Deep in the forests of northern Thailand, far from the pounding noise of Bangkok's streets, a leaf crunched underfoot as we crested a hill. We were near the famous "Golden Triangle" opium-producing region, among 50-foot trees and waist-high grass. We followed the narrow trail...

Reynolds, Jerry Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 10-13-2004 WASHINGTON - For all the snarling directed at Jack Abramoff and his associate Michael Scanlon at a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing on "Lobbying Practices Involving Indian Tribes" (an early title, later changed), one...

Sixty years after Roman Catholic and Presbyterian missionaries first converted large numbers of Taiwanese aboriginals in their leafy mountain villages, Christianity here is entering a new phase. Adherents are leaving the faith.Faced with a declining agricultural economy in their hard pressed rural communities, more and...

More than 400 members of the Hmong hill tribe minority who have been on the run for decades from the communist government of Laos surrendered to the authorities there on Wednesday, supporters of the group said.The group, which came out of the jungle to Ban...