Northern indigenous peoples of Russia - Definition and Overview

This list is based solely on territory; the peoples listed here do not belong to a single language family or ethnicity: they are Finno-Ugric, Turkic, Eskimo-Aleut, and other groups. Many of these groups are now extinct or almost so, or assimilated.

Many of these peoples live in Siberia, and their names here are transliterations from Cyrillic, rather than self-names. In some cases this creates difficulty in providing the plural form, because the Cyrillic letter Ц is transliterated as 'ts'. These cases are marked by the asterisk (*).

• Aleut
• Chukchis
• Chuvans
• Dolgans
• Evenks (obsolete: Tungus)
• Evens
• Inuit
• Itel'mens
• Kamas (extinct since 1989)
• Karelians
• Khants (Ostyaks, obsolete)
• Kamchadals
• Kets
• Koryaks
• Kumandints
• Lamuts
• Mansi (Voguls, obsolete)
• Nanais (Russian plural: Nanaitsy)
• Negidals
• Nenets (*) (Russian plural: Nentsy, old Russian name Samoyeds)
• Nganasans (Tavgi)
• Nivkhs
• Orochs (Evenk tribe by the Oro river)
• Oroks (Oroquen)
• Sami (old Russian name Lopars, i.e., Lapp)
• Sel'kups
• Shors
• Teleuts
• Tofalars
• Tuvian-Todzhynts
• Udege
• Ul'chs
• Yakuts
• Yenets (*) (Enets, Russian plural: Yentsy, obsolete: Yenisei Samoyeds, Yenisei Ostyak, Kets)
• Yukaghirs

Related topics

• Indigenous people
• List of ethnic groups

External links

• UNESCO Red Book on endangered languages: Norteast Asia (http://www.helsinki.fi/~tasalmin/nasia_report.html)
• Endangered Uralic Peoples (http://www.suri.ee/eup/)
• Minority languages of Russia on the Net (http://www.peoples.org.ru/eng_index.html)
• The Red Book of the peoples of the Russian Empire (http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/index1.shtml)
• Survival International article about the Northern indigenous peoples (http://survival-international.org/siberia.htm)
• Siberian Native Peoples (http://www.buryatmongol.com/sibnative.html)
• L'auravetl'an Indigenous Information Network by Indigenous Peoples of Russia (http://www.indigenous.ru/)