I Beleive these data collected few year ago!!
Haida- population 3,500
The Haida were widely renowned for their canoes. They belong to one of two clans- eagle or raven.
Makah- population 1,214
The Makah live in Washington. Their name for themselves is Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx, which means "the people who live by the rocks and seagulls".
Hopi- population 6,946
For more then 800 years the Hopi have lived at the southern end of Arizona’s Black Mesa. Today, their reservation is entirely surrounded by the Navajo.
Carib- population 3,000
Mistakenly believed to be cannibals (their name is actually the origin of the English word cannibal) the Caribs today live in Dominica.
Tucano- population 4,500
The name Tucano covers a number of different tribes and language speakers as they believe marrying “within a language” is incestuous.
Bororo- population 700
Also a Brazilian tribe, the Bororo
villages are arranged in a circle with half the women and children on
one side, half on the other. Men spend most of their lives in the men’s
house in the centre of the village.
Kayapo- population 7,096
A tough people who live in the southern parts of the Amazon Basin. The Kayapo have trade agreements with The Body Shop.
Karo- population 500
The Karo
are an agricultural people from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia. They still
live in grass huts clustered on the eastern bank of the Omo River.
Hadza- population 1,000
Only 300- 400 of the Hadza people of northern Tanzania still live as nomadic hunter-gatherers like their ancestors
Kalash- population 6,000
A tribe from Chitral, in north western Pakistan, half of whom still practice the ancient animist religion.
Jarawa- population 250- 350
Little is known of these people of the Andaman Islands as
they shun contact with outsiders. In 2002 the Indian Supreme Court
ordered the closure of a trunk road through their reserve and banned
poaching and logging in their area.
Veddha- population 380
They are the native people of Sri Lanka and incredibly proud of their hunter-gatherer heritage. They call themselves wanniya-laeto, meaning forest dwellers.
Semang- population 2,500
The Semang are the
oldest of the native peoples of Thailand and the Malay peninsula. They
are under increasing pressure to give up the hunter-gatherer lifestyle
and settle down to agriculture.
Korowai- population estimated between 700- 4,000
The West has only known about the Korowai since the 1970’s. They built their houses about 80ft/ 25m in the forest canopy of the Irian Jaya coast, in Indonesia.
Warlpiri- population 5,000- 6,000
The Australian government forced the Warlpiri to settle in Yuendumu in 1946. Today they use video conferencing to share their traditional art.
Rapanui- population 5,682
The natives of Easter Island most famous for the giant statues called Moai.
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