In the 2009 film Avatar, what is the name of Pandora’s indigenous humanoid people?

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In the 2009 film Avatar, Pandora’s indigenous humanoid people are the Na’vi.

The Na’vi are a tall, blue-skinned species living on Pandora. The film depicts them as organized into clans with distinct territories, customs, spiritual beliefs, and relationships with the moon’s living environment. The Omatikaya clan is central to the first film’s story.

Jake Sully communicates with the Na’vi through an avatar body created from human and Na’vi genetic material. His involvement brings him into conflict with the human mining operation seeking unobtanium beneath the Na’vi homeland.

Na’vi is not the name of the moon or the avatar technology. Pandora is the setting, while an avatar is the remotely controlled hybrid body. The word is also written with an apostrophe in the film’s English-language spelling.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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