This review work has been done with the objective to know the health status of indigenous people and summarize the extended and scattered data on health status of indigenous people. There are more than 300 million indigenous people in the world, on every continent and representing many cultures. The health of indigenous people remains in a state of scandalous compromise. Despite the progress of our thinking in modern times and our ethics, indigenous people of the world over continue to suffer enormously from communicable diseases, genetic diseases, malnutrition etc. Due to these morbidities, infant, child and maternal mortalities are very high and life expectancy is very less among these people. All these conditions are challenge for the civil societies of the nations and modern world. The widespread poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, absence of safe drinking water, poor maternal and child health services, ineffective coverage of health and nutrition services, lack of awareness about health care services, socio- economic barriers to utilization of the health services etc. have been identified as possible factors for dismal health status of indigenous people. So health services need to be accessible, affordable, and acceptable and should be strengthened, to make it more responsive for tribal health in particular.