Chick Baraik

Chick Baraik (also Chik Baraik) is one of the Scheduled Tribes of India found in parts of Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. They belong to proto-austoloid group and speak Sadani, Sadri, Nagpuri as their mother tongue. However, with growing interaction between other tribes they generally communicate in the language of that tribe or in Hindi.

Chik Baraiks mainly resides in harmony with other tribes and caste Hindus in a village. Most of the cases there is no separate village for the Chik Baraiks. There are some villages where only a single Chik Baraik family resides in the village. In such villages this community lives congruously between chief tribes, namely Munda, Oraon and Kharia who also become linked with the culture and customs of these chief tribes.

Chik Baraiks are mainly an artisan tribe, but in present times they have started agriculture for their living. They also weave clothes for their living.