Contacting world's uncontacted tribes

(Geography Now) What are the world's oldest ethnicities?

Are there really uncontacted bands of humans left on the surface of the planet? Besides in the warm and green parts of Antarctica we are banned from seeing and Sentinel Island off the coast of India or deep in New Guinea and still wandering around in the thick Amazon or out on the Kalahari, aside from those, is there a single human who does not know there are other humans, carrying on destroying the planet? It would seem so. They're probably better off not knowing what we're doing. What about one of the oldest countries in the world, the Kush we now call Ethiopia, are there secret tribes there, riding around on tiny boards with even tinier wheels, doing the impossible?

(Geography Now) Native American reservations explained

(TheSkateNomad) The Skater Girls of Ethiopia

Russia is BIG and full of native Asians

There are Asian Russians, Russian Asians?

What it's like being Asian Russian in 2025 and why you've never heard about us 🤨

(Chimka Travels) Dec. 2, 2025: Most people think all Russians look Slavic…until they meet me or others like me. I’m an Asian Russian, specifically a Buryat-Mongolian. My video about Asian Russians blew up with over 10 million views. So in this episode, I’m finally explaining: 💬

(This is Guzel) What it's like being non-Slavic Asian Russian

• Who Asian Russians actually are 🌏
• Why you’ve never seen us in Western (or Russian) media 📍
• Where we live inside Russia 💬
• Why English language creates confusion (“Russian,” one word = two meanings) 🏔️
• The Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Far East 🇲🇳
• My Buryat-Mongol identity
• And comments like, “We got Chinese Russians before GTA6.”

By the end of this video, viewers will understand a part of Russia almost nobody talks about.

• 00:00 Introduction
• 01:37 Who are Asian Russians?
• 02:34 Russian federal subjects
• 03:23 Identity: Russian or Buryat?
• 03:45 Why people get confused
• 04:18 Why they’ve never heard of Asian Russians
• 04:37 Buryat-Mongolian or Buryat?
• 05:36 Erasure of the “-Mongolian” part during USSR phase
• 06:29 Why I don’t look Russian
• 06:50 Why I started talking about this
• 07:18 Taiwan’s “Russian Girl” stereotype — storytime
• 08:56 Future content and upcoming Mongolia vlogs
• 09:25 Ending and goodbye

Follow me: 👉 Instagram: chimka_travel 👉 TikTok: chimka_travels ❤️Support: paypal.me/Chimkas, coff.ee/chimka_travel 📩 For business inquiries: chimka.travel@gmail.com #AsianRussian #Asian #Russian #Russia #Sakha #Yakut# Yakutia# Buryat# Buryatia #BuryatMongol #Indigenous

Why is Russia so darn BIG?
(Johnny Harris) March 24, 2021: The story of moving east and just...not stopping.

• (Eli from Russia) Former USSR (Soviet Union) Russia's hidden gem in Far East: the Kuril Islands

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• Eli from Russia, Dec. 13, 2025; Johnny Harris, March 24, 2021; Guzel; Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025

Toypurina: Los Angeles' Joan of Arc

(DemocracyNow.org) Julian Brave Noisecat has something to say about the Native experience

• Indigenous Peoples' Day (bing.com)
• Indigenous House: Blowing Up Indian News | Breaking History
• Decolonize: Junipero Serra toppled for good
• Gabrielino/Tongva Nation: First Aboriginal (Indigenous) People of Los Angeles

(KQED) Native writer Julian Brave Noisecat with Alice Woelfle

The last solar eclipse of 2025 (9/21)

When to see the next full moon (space.com)

The last solar eclipse of 2025 happens on Sunday, Sept. 21st, just one day before the autumnal equinox. This partial solar eclipse will be visible from New Zealand, Antarctica, and the South Pacific.

• VIDEO: See the moon 'bite' the sun in 1st photos of Sept. 2025 partial solar eclipse | Space
• EDITOR'S NOTE: The Sept. 2025 partial solar eclipse put on a magnificent show as the moon swept over the face of our sun, darkening the sky over a swathe of the Pacific Ocean. Check out our wrap article to see the first images from the spectacular orbital ballet, as seen from the City of Dunedin, New Zealand.

Although not a total eclipse, this is a deep partial event, with the moon covering up to 86% of the sun! Southern New Zealand and Antarctic research stations will see the best views, whilst some Pacific islands will also get a show. More: space.com/stargazing/solar-eclipses

• Full moon calendar 2025: When to see the next full moon | Space

[Buddhist] World Surf League Finals (8/25)

What is 'Buddhist' about the practice of surfing?

Get back on and ride the waves.

There are many ways in which surfing, which seems to have been "invented" in the Pacific -- in Peru and Polynesia, with important contributions from Buddhist Japan (which at that time included a cultural hold on what is now part of Hawaii in the Imperial USA), tracks with the best elements of Eastern philosophy.

That philosophy, distinct from Western philosophy we are all generally familiar with, is a syncretic blend of Buddhism, Zen, the Vedas, Hinduism, Taoism, Shinto, and indigenous shamanism. (British Californian Alan Watts explained it very well to Westerners).

• Mindfulness (fully absorbed in monotasking)
• Absorption (undistracted doing temporarily freed of discursive thinking)
• Letting go (non-clinging, as in "Let Go, Let God," with "God" understood to be Nature, the Universe, things just as they are at this moment, more Brahman than a brahma)
• Going with the flow rather than struggling against it (entering flow states familiar to poets, rappers, artists, and persons able to enter trance states at will)
• Skillful allowing and accepting rather than shoving, muscling, and efforting (radical acceptance as understood by Buddhist teacher and psychologist Tara Brach)
• Riding the wave (internally of emotions, externally tolerating and skillfully adapting to the "Eight Worldly Winds"):

Practicing at home in the Deep South, USA

Theravada Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg elaborates on the Taoist idea of “the ten thousand joys and the ten thousand sorrows.” Our lives are constantly changing, sometimes in the space of a minute. The Buddha taught that the “Eight Worldly Winds” are:

1. pleasure
2. and pain,
3. gain
4. and loss,
5. praise
6. and blame,
7. fame
8. and disrepute.

Taoism and the Tao Te Ching (Book of Changes)

They (and all things) are constantly arising and passing away, beyond our control. We suffer when we cling to pleasure, gain, praise, and fame or hold the expectation that they will always be present.

When instead we get pain, loss, blame, and disrepute, we feel that something is terribly wrong, or that we’ve done something wrong... More

• Well, what should we do when everything sucks? Surf.
• Whether that means ride the waves of life constantly coming at us like Eight Worldly Winds or vicissitudes or actually getting out on the water, waiting for the swells, and riding them back to sure with the practiced skills of balance, poise, allowing, persistence, and mindful awareness.

Lexus WSL Finals Fiji 2025 | World Surf League

Map shows Fiji cluster of islands in center

What to know: The paradise and power of Cloudbreak | Lexus WSL Finals Fiji. At the Lexus WSL Finals, the WSL Final 5 will face off at Cloudbreak, one of the most powerful lefts on Earth. It's a wave that demands total commitment and punishes hesitation. With a world title on the line, this is the ultimate test of talent, mental acumen, and pure surfing instinct. The stakes have never been higher, and there's no room for error. History will be ridden, and World Champions will be crowned: Paradise and power of Cloudbreak (WSL)

Where is Fiji?

Where in the world is Fiji? It is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean (between Hawaii and Australia). It rests about 1,300 miles (1,100 nautical miles or 2,000 kms) north-northeast of New Zealand.

Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about 7,100 square miles (18,300 sq kms). The most outlying island group is Ono-i-Lau.

• DETAILS: Lexus WSL Finals Fiji 2025 | World Surf League

Mexico's Baja California in upper right, Fiji in center, Southeast Asia on left, Africa at far left

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About 87% of the total population live on the two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. About three-quarters of Fijians live on Viti Levu's coasts, either in the capital city of Suva, or in smaller urban centers such as Nadi (where tourism is the major local industry) or Lautoka (where the sugar-cane industry is dominant). The interior of Viti Levu is sparsely inhabited because of its terrain [13]. More

• WorldSurfLeague.com/events/2025
• VIDEO: 1,700-year-old city hidden beneath Pacific Ocean
• WSL 2025; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Alt origins of Proto-Indo-Europeans

World Oceans Day 2025 (The Beach)

World Oceans Day 2025: Protecting the waters that give this Earth life (Earth.com)

I never really think about the ocean. It's just here.

Someday, maybe on June 8th, it will be World Ocean Day. Then people will begin to realize our whole way of life is made possible by the oceans.

Trees give us so much, and we can see them. The ocean with all its plankton, water cycle, and underwater forests gives us more, but we cannot see it.

Corporations pollute, and we clean it up.

We might live on chlorella, spirulina, Irish moss, and seaweed -- nourished by all the salts (minerals) of the earth without knowing it -- yet never think to thank the seas from the sand at the foot of the oceans.

The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) is halfway through. However, the UN Sustainable Development Goals on life below water (SDG14) remains the most underfunded goal.

• World Oceans Day
• United Nations World Oceans Day
• Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, after US bombed
• UN World Oceans Day 2025 - Oceanic Global
• Action Theme - World Ocean Day

World Ocean Day

• 2025 Social Media Toolkit - World Ocean Day
• Submit an Event – World Ocean Day
• Sponsors and Donors - World Ocean Day
• Blog - World Ocean Day

What a wonder the ocean

What would mermaids say?

This World Oceans Day, join us as we celebrate the ocean's essential wonder -- from all the wonders it consists of to the wonder it ignites. The ocean's wonder is what draws us in and drives our urge to protect it. Wonder is the foundation of scientific knowledge, the allure behind exploration, the curiosity that drives innovation, and the seed of traditional wisdom.

The act of wondering serves to remind us that we are part of something bigger. It wakes us up to our inherent connection to this earth and to each other, expands our understanding of what is possible, empowers innovation, and prioritizes decision-making for collective wellbeing.

While the ocean sustains our planet, wonder sustains our humanity. If the warnings haven't changed us, wonder is what will. More: United Nations World Oceans Day

N. Pacific Ocean Gyre garbage patch of plastic

World Oceans Day (WOD) is an international day that takes place annually on June 8th. The concept was originally proposed in 1992 by Canada's International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) and the Ocean Institute of Canada (OIC) at the Earth Summit – UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Ocean Project started global coordination of World Ocean Day... More

What is being done to save the planet?

World Oceans Day

The ocean needs innovative, passionate leaders to drive the sustainable blue economy and ensure a healthy future. Scientists, academics, entrepreneurs, and technology developers are pushing the frontiers of exploration and innovation to monitor ocean health and counter the big challenges facing the ocean, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

Economist Impact’s Ocean Changemakers Challenge showcases leading changemakers working to develop business solutions to ocean-related sustainability challenges. The competition... World Oceans Day | Insight Hour

• Leo Di'o in The Beach in Buddhist Thailand, 2000; World Ocean Day; Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

AAPI Heritage Month w/ Ronny Chieng

• Ronny Chieng Celebrates Asian Trailblazers for AAPI Heritage Month | The Daily Show
• Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
• Ronny Chieng, The Daily Show, 5/29/25; CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly 

Rock 'n roll Ireland: Tale of Two Cities

Irish rock stars: 17 music artists from the Emerald Isle known as Ireland | DRGNews

Thin Lizzy's Black Irish Phil Lynott - Thin Lizzy's big Jailbreak album

A Tale of Two Cities | eBay

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

• It was A Tale of Two Cities, Belfast and Dublin.

There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. More

Rockstars hate U2 and Bono: Henry Rollins, Liam Gallagher, Roger Waters

(Jimmy Dore) Roger Waters slaps down Bono’s pro-war propaganda

Whites of Japan: Ainu, Emishi, Jomon?

Why do the Ainu people seem to have Caucasian features? (vrogue.co)

The fascinatingly mysterious origins of the Ainu

(TREY the Explainer) This is TTE's first video on human diversity and evolution. It discusses ancient and prehistoric human migration and evolution into East Asia, specifically Japan. [Did the Ainu, Emishi, or Jōmon people come from mating with nearby Russians, Koreans, Tartarians?]

• 15 fascinating facts about the Ainu - Japan’s [bear worshiping] Indigenous people

We examine the strange and somewhat mysterious case of the Ainu tribe [with possible origins in Africa as "Black Asians," as happened with many groups like the early blue-eyed Blacks of Ireland and British Isles, or even the Australian aboriginals and ubiquitous Polynesians] and other members of Y-Haplogroup D. In doing so it breaks down what exactly happened in Asia during prehistory.

Background Music by Kevin Macleod: The Fascinatingly Mysterious Origins of the Ainu

• Untold History, Feb. 2, 2024; TREY the Explainer, 3/18/18; CC Liu, Amber Larson, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Let's go down under to wild New Zealand

15 mind-blowing facts about New Zealand: the world's most ECCENTRIC country

We're here to take over, like it or not. - O.K.

(Amazing Discoveries US) April 24, 2025: Ready for a travel documentary that takes one way beyond the usual tourist traps? Discover 15 mind-blowing facts about New Zealand that make it truly the world’s most eccentric country. Whether dreaming of adventure or just curious about what sets Kiwis apart, this is the travel documentary the world didn’t know it needed. Dive into some interesting facts about New Zealand, from stunning landscapes to the distinctive charm of Kiwi women and the warmth of New Zealanders.

KEY MOMENTS

• 00:00 Travel documentary
• 00:03 Facts about New Zealand
• 00:43 The land at the edge of the world
• 02:39 A real Hobbit village – Hobbiton exists
• 04:41 A land of amazing females, New Zealand women
• 06:22 Waitomo – New Zealand's underground galaxy
• 07:41 Unique spa services only found in New Zealand, life in New Zealand
• 09:13 Baldwin Street – the steepest street in the world
• 10:44 Whangamōmona – the oddest town in New Zealand
• 12:25 The kiwi bird – interesting facts about New Zealand
• 14:02 Life in Wellington, expat life in New Zealand
• 15:59 Things to do in New Zealand – a wonder of the world
• 17:35 The Māori – greeting with a nose touch? New Zealanders
• 19:15 The sheep walking service found only in New Zealand
• 20:50 New Zealand culture, the country of unique festivals
• 22:24 The cost of living in New Zealand
• 24:08 New Zealand cuisine – a food paradise

Come along through real life in New Zealand, explore mouthwatering New Zealand food, and see the hidden gems among the many things to do. Thinking of moving? Let’s break down the cost of living in New Zealand and get an honest look at the expat life in New Zealand. Get a glimpse of vibrant New Zealand culture — a blend of indigenous roots and modern Euro vibes. This travel doc captures it all with heart, humor, and high-definition beauty.

Subscribe: @amazingdiscoveriesus. Watch more fascinating videos about cultures and people around the world: 👇 Exploring All Countries Around the World: #TravelDocumentary #FactsAboutNewZealand #InterestingFactsAboutNewZealand #LifeInNewZealand #ThingsToDoInNewZealand #NewZealandPeople #NewZealandWomen #NewZealandCulture #ExpatLifeInNewZealand #CostOfLivingInNewZealand #NewZealandFood #AmazingDiscoveriesUS #amazingdiscoveriesus #TravelDocumentary

• Amazing Discoveries US, April 24, 2025; Amber Larson, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Native American Month continues

What does "Native" look like in the US of A?

Native American Heritage Month | Indigenous L.A.: Cultural Revitalization

[Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM)] Nov. 18, 2020: The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County are proud to join the nationwide celebration of Native American Indian Heritage Month in November. During this month, and throughout the year, we share stories from past and present and recognize the thriving Native community of Los Angeles County. Join the conversation on social media by sharing your own stories about Native American history and culture by using #NHMLA and #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth.

Los Angeles celebrates Indigenous’ Peoples Day before Columbus Day | VOA News

(Voice of America) VOA is funded in whole or in part by the American government. Oct. 14, 2024: Since 2019 the state of California officially celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of the federally recognized Columbus Day, which falls on every second Monday in October. VOA’s Genia Dulot visited the celebration at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, that drew around 2,000 people.

ABOUT: Voice of America (VOA) is the largest U.S. international broadcaster [and a propaganda arm particularly during in times of war, which is all the time for the past 200 years of our history], providing news and information [and a goodly amount of disinformation when a desired outcome is aimed at] in more than 40 languages to an estimated weekly audience of 236.8 million people. VOA produces content for digital, television, and radio platforms. It is easily accessed via mobile phones and on social media. It is also distributed by satellite, cable, FM and MW, and is carried on a network of approximately 3,000 affiliate stations. Since its creation in 1942, Voice of America has been committed to [psyops and misleading the American taxpayer and foreign enemies by] providing comprehensive coverage [and spin] of the news and telling audiences the truth [as the CIA, Pentagon, and White House wish the public to see and interpret it]. Through World War II, the Cold War, the fight against global terrorism, and the struggle for freedom around the globe today, VOA exemplifies the principles of a free press.

DNA study reveals Japan's 1st inhabitants

Japan is perhaps best known for this giant metal Buddha statue originally built indoors.

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Let's see what the ancient written record says

Were the kami "ancestors" the first to arrive on the islands, followed by Shinto priest-shamans to deal with them? Were the "white" Ainu in Japan before the East Asian Japanese there today? Yes. Were the Ainu aliens from neighboring Russia? No. Or could the first inhabitants of Japan come from the Koreas, China, Mongolia, Taiwan, or Tibet? If only science had a means of looking at the DNA code and giving a reliable and replicable answer to these mysteries.

Genome study cracks the mystery of Japan's first inhabitants

Kami Shinto temple, Fushimi Inari shrine, Kyoto

Some of the earliest inhabitants of Japan came from the Korean peninsula, according to a new study that sheds more light on ancient immigration patterns to the archipelago.

• [This is in line with what the Koreans have always been saying about themselves, that they were the progenitors copied by Japan and China, not the other way around. Where did the Koreans come from?]

Japan may be an international travel hub for business and pleasure today, but the islands were relatively isolated until about 3,000 BC.

Its earliest inhabitants were the Jomon people, a collection of hunter-gatherer societies that lived an isolated life on the islands since 14,000 BC.

• [What about the mysterious "white" Ainu people, who look like a blend of Russian shamans and Asians?]

It wasn’t until the Yayoi and Kofun periods between 3,000 BC and 538 AD that immigration to the islands from continental Asia started.

More than 80 per cent of the genomes of modern Japanese people consist of ancestries related to East and Northeast Asia. How the Japanese population acquired these ancestries and what was the pattern of early immigrations that contributed to them has long been a matter of debate.

Science has its say

The new study, published in the Journal of Human Genetics, analyzed the genome of a person dating to the Yayoi period whose remains were uncovered at the Doigahama archaeological site in Yamaguchi prefecture.

Scientists from the University of Tokyo compared this individual’s genome with those of ancient and modern populations in east and northeast Asia. More:

• Genome study cracks the mystery of Japan's first inhabitants
• Archaeologists are too scared to open up the tomb of China's first emperor guarded by thousands of terracotta warriors Archaeologists are terrified to open the tomb of, in the Shaanxi province of China.
• VIDEO: Floating bridge thrills in Zhejiang, China
• The lost island of Atlantis may have been found 2 kms under the ocean
• MSN.com, 10/14/24; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly