Fierce Nomads of Tatooine, the Sand People or Tusken Raiders prowl areas like the Dune Sea and the Junland wastes, blending invisibly into the landscape. Masters of the desert, they survive where no one else can, protected from the suns by heavy clothing. Their savage and violent ways pit them against the moisture farmers and settlers in lonely, remote lands. They usually stay away from town and cities, but in the dead of hot seasons, Raiders emerge from the wastes after the twin suns set to scavenge or steal from the edges of settlement zones.

Sand People live in Tatooine's most barren wastes, where no human settlers could survive. For most of the year, Tusken Raiders rove the desert, but during the height of the hottest season, many tribes live in semi-perminant camps. Only someone with the powers like a Jedi could enter a Tusken Raider camp unnoticed. Sand People are uncannily skilled sentries, and can detect humans entering their territory long before they themselves are seen by the intruders.