page_title: List of indigenous peoples
section_title: South China
hierarchical_section_title: List of indigenous peoples / Afro-Eurasia / Eurasia / Asia / East Asia / South China
caption_attribution_description: Chine Guizhou Suoga femmes Miao à corne boyant du mais
context_page_description: This is a partial list of the world's indigenous / aboriginal / native people. Indigenous people are "those ethnic groups that were indigenous to a territory prior to being incorporated into a national state, and who are politically and culturally separate from the majority ethnic identity of the state that they are a part of". There are internationally recognized definitions of indigenous peoples, such as those of the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank.
  This list is grouped by region, and sub-region. Note that a particular group may warrant listing under more than one region, either because the group is distributed in more than one region in North America and eastern Russia, or there may be some overlap of the regions themselves.
context_section_description: Hmong-Mien peoples
  Miao: Southern China (provinces of Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan), Myanmar, northern Vietnam, Laos and Thailand
  Hmong: Southern China, Vietnam and Laos
  Yao (Mien): Southern China (provinces Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan)
caption: Miao (Hmong) girls in China
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