AHC: Save an extinct ethnic group

It's not just other species and/or subspecies of humans - such as Neanderthals, Denisovans and "Hobbits" - that have gone extinct, but ethnic groups of our species as well. Russia and Brazil have seen so many ethnic groups go extinct, they have lists on Wikipedia.

Your challenge is to have at least one ethnic group that went extinct IOTL survive to the present day.
 
The Izhorians and Votes of Ingria still exist but are dying out. They could have been saved if Stalin created an "Izhorian ASSR" in the part of Ingria west of Leningrad.

This could of allowed them to pursue greater cultural preservation movements, and generally have some voice to protest against the mass immigration of Russians.
 
If Pomerania is never conquered by Germans and remains danish the Wends may survive, there is of course the risk of Danification but Denmark had a smaller population so couldn't colonize the area as well as the germans did
 
It's not just other species and/or subspecies of humans - such as Neanderthals, Denisovans and "Hobbits" - that have gone extinct, but ethnic groups of our species as well. Russia and Brazil have seen so many ethnic groups go extinct, they have lists on Wikipedia.

Your challenge is to have at least one ethnic group that went extinct IOTL survive to the present day.
Tasmanians are protected by British Empire. Settlers that purge them prosecuted.
 
It's not just other species and/or subspecies of humans - such as Neanderthals, Denisovans and "Hobbits" - that have gone extinct, but ethnic groups of our species as well. Russia and Brazil have seen so many ethnic groups go extinct, they have lists on Wikipedia.

Your challenge is to have at least one ethnic group that went extinct IOTL survive to the present day.
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Maybe this early European phenotype manages to survive in specific areas.
 
The Samaritans aren’t yet extinct, but they sure are dwindling, numbering in the hundreds by now. A good PoD for having them survive in the bulk quantity of the late antique and early medieval periods in Syria would be through having the Byzantine Empire somehow lose control of this region between 400 and 600 CE.
 
Well, you could easily save pretty much any First Nations group by just not having them die out, but continue to exist as a small population in the modern US or Canada. The reason could be say, the Yahi of California are not killed off in such large numbers by European diseases and manage to maintain a sustainable population until it stops being socially acceptable to go around slaughtering First Nations people, and then have them get their own reserve, so as not to be assimilated by a larger group that dominates the reserve they're put on, and also have them not die in off due to bad living conditions on reserves. This way, at least some of their way of life is preserved.

To get a less sad and small result, just change anything in the migration period, and you can have completely different ethnic groups in Europe, say surviving Crimean goths or visigoths or have the Franks survive as a group rather than diverging into Dutch, French, and German.

There was a Slavic group called the Brodnici in Moldova as late as the 1250s (when the Hungarian king writes a letter detailing the Mongol tributaries he mentions them) and possibly later. Just somehow let them survive the Mongols and become a dominant force in the region of Bessarabia after they leave (this would entail gaining favour with the Hungarians and most likely being a puppet state, but it gives them the opportunity to assimilate
 
You almost have to find the areas of the world where genocide was not committed.

For example, the Indian subcontinent really does have a number of different ethnic groups.
 

Isaac Beach

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Tasmanians are protected by British Empire. Settlers that purge them prosecuted.

This mightn't be enough to save them on its own; the bulk of Tasmanian Aboriginals were wiped out by disease. I also question the ability of the Empire to enforce or have any reason to enforce such a policy while also trying to build a settler colony, short of a much more divergent history, such as Tasmanian Aboriginals acquiring guns à la the Maori or something.
 
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