Many Circassians are attempting to return to their ancestral North Caucasus homelands. They brought from their homelands the traditions of their ancestors. Aspiring nationalities were promised their own homelands. Ethnic Armenians in Syria have been fleeing to their historic Armenia homelands. The indigenous people he encountered in their homelands were peaceful and friendly. Many refugees tried to return home when the fighting in their homelands ended. Though they were captives removed from their homelands, these people were never documented as slaves. These traditions were brought from the many homelands of this region's population. These communities continued to be influenced by the ideological movements in their homelands. Yorubaland is one of the most populated ethnic homelands in Africa. They maintained their deities which they brought from their homelands. This is a list of Indian reservations and other tribal homelands in the United States. However, the powers took care to minimize the presence of slavery in their homelands. It was regarded as a disparaging term by some critics of the apartheid-era government's "homelands". Circassian nationalism also calls for a restoration of the native homelands.