Algonkins: now more commonly Algonquin; a first nation people from the region of Quebec in modern Canada.

Arunta: also known as the Aranda, Arrernte or Arrarnta; an Aboriginal people whose traditional lands consist of Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and surrounding areas in Central Australia.

Basutos: now called the Sotho people; an ethnic group from Lesotho and South Africa.

Bushmen: a term used for the San or Xan people of Southern Africa.

Caribs: indigenous people of the Americas, from whom the Caribbean takes its name. The Caribs originated in South America, and settled the islands of the Lesser Antilles in the first millennium ce.

Cingalese: now more commonly Sinhalese; the largest ethnic group of the island of Sri Lanka (given the colonial name Ceylon until 1972).

Circassians: also called Adyghe; people of the Northern Caucasus, conquered and occupied by Russia in the nineteenth century.

Digger Indians: name given by European settlers to the indigenous Paiute people of south-western United States (Arizona, Nevada and California). The term is now considered derogatory.

Epirote: people from the Epirus region of north-western Greece, which also lies partially in modern Albania.

Eskimo: generic term, now generally seen as pejorative, for the Inuit and Yupik peoples of the Northern Polar regions of Alaska, Canada, Siberia and Greenland.

Fuegians: indigenous peoples of the Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago at the southernmost point of South America.

Futa: more commonly Fula or Fulani; an African ethnic group, found predominantly in West Africa.

Hottentots: see Nama

Huron: the name given by French settlers to indigenous Americans of the Wyandot league of tribes.

Iroquois: a league of indigenous American peoples deriving from what is now New York state.

Maoris: indigenous Polynesian people who settled in New Zealand in the thirteenth century CE.

Murri: a collection of aboriginal Australian peoples from what is now the state of Queensland.

Nama: an ethnic group from Southern Africa. European colonisers gave them the derogatory name Hottentots in imitation of the sound of their language.

Namaquas: see Nama.

Nootka: now called Nuu-chah-nulth; first nation American peoples from the Northwest coast of Canada.

Odjibwas: see Ojibbeway.

Ojibbeway: now more commonly Ojibwa or Ojibway, also called Chippewa and Anishinaabe; an indigenous American and first nation people, inhabiting the area covered by the southern states of Canada and the northern states of the United States.