Seventy percent of the world's Indigenous people live in Asia — yet their stories are the least told, their dispossession the least examined, and their resistance the least visible to the outside world. The Invisible Nations is the most urgent entry in the First Peoples series. From the Ainu of Japan — whose language the state declared dead while its last speakers were still alive — to the Tibetans holding their civilization together in sixty-five years of exile, from the Uyghurs facing a detention system with no parallel in the contemporary world to the Nenets reindeer herders driving their herds across a Yamal Peninsula being swallowed by gas pipelines and thawing permafrost, this book documents the Indigenous peoples the maps forgot to name. In the Arctic, the Inuit are losing their world not to a government's decision but to physics: the sea ice that is the foundation of four thousand years of culture is melting. The specific hunting knowledge, the navigation traditions, the ecological wisdom accumulated across a hundred generations of Arctic life — all of it depends on ice that is disappearing faster than any adaptation can keep pace with. These are not historical atrocities. They are present realities. The Xinjiang detention system is operating today. The Tibet occupation is suppressing a living culture now. The Arctic ice loss is accelerating this decade. The Invisible Nations names what is happening, documents the peoples it is happening to, and records the extraordinary refusal of those peoples to accept invisibility as their permanent condition. From the Ainu language schools of Hokkaido to the Tibetan monasteries of Dharamsala, from the Inuit Circumpolar Council's Arctic sovereignty declaration to the Uyghur diaspora's documentation of what no one inside China is permitted to say, this is the story of the nations the maps tried to erase — and why they are still here.