Caitlin Redden, from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, was visiting Petra, Jordan when she was invited to stay with a nomadic desert tribe for a day — and nearly triggered a missing person’s search.

Far more dire is the plight of another tribe, with which they share the Arariboia reserve: the Awá. Several bands of Awá nomads—the easternmost isolated, or “uncontacted,” people in the ...

In the remote regions of Tibet, nomadic tribes have been practicing body modifications for centuries. Among them, ear piercings are prevalent, and the ornaments worn can be quite elaborate.

Mangaluru: P Keshavanath, president of the Dakshina Kannada District Committee of the Karnataka State Federation of Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic (Category-1) Tribes, stated that a peaceful protest and ...