Сеть Арктических Организаций в Поддержку Коренных Народов Российского Севера

This book has a wide range of articles on several issues concerning ethnicity and identity in the Circumpolar North, and consists of five main parts: I. Ainu in Japan, II. Alaskan Eskimos and Canadian Inuit, III. North American Natives, IV. North Asian and Siberian Peoples, V. Mongols and Saami.

"The Russian Far East" overviews and analyzes the region's geography and ecology, natural resources, major industries, infrastructure, foreign trade, demographics, protected area system, and legal structure. Particular attention is devoted to how the region can develop in an environmentally sustainable way.

The book also includes contributions from an interdisciplinary team of ninety specialists from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The book is divided into eleven chapters. The first chapter summarises the Russian Far East as a whole, while each of the remaining chapters deal with an administrative region within the Russian Far East. All of the chapters are divided into identical sections to simplify comparison among the regions.

The edition represents a Naukansk-Russian part of the dictionary, with Naukansk written with Cyrillic orthography. The volume consists of six sections:

1) a basic section consisting of Naukansk roots, listed in alphabetic order;

2) a section including only “doubtful” Naukansk words, i.e. words on which the authors do not fully rely;

3) a section including nonvalidated Naukansk words from old written sources;

4) section of Naukansk word-forming suffixes including a small enclitic;

5) a Russian-Naukansk index;

6) a section of Naukansk typonyms.

The Naukansk language is spoken in the extreme northeast of Chukotka, at Cape Dezhnev. It is the center of the region at the joint of two continents, Eurasia and North America, also called “Beringia”. It is surrounded by Eskimo languages of the Yup’ik group. It represents a connection between Central–Alaskan Yup’ik spoken by the Eskimos living in between Bristol Bay and Norton Sound, and the Chaplinsk language spoken by the inhabitants of the villages Novoe Chaplino, Sireniki and Uelkal in Chukotka, and also on St. Lawrence Island (USA).
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Compiled by Igor Krupnik and Lars Krutak. Edited by Igor Krupnik, Willis Walunga and Vera Metcalf. Published by the Arctic Studies Center National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution. Washington D.C. 2002.

This project was motivated by a shared understanding that residents of the North should have free access to all documentary resources related to their culture and history. This includes, first of all, historical memories shared by community members, enshrined by “oral knowledge”. The second part of cultural legacy is the stock of historical documentary records relating to Native communities. The latter is preserved in the form of old archival documents, census materials, unpublished written notes, and variuos early publications.

The collection includes reports of participants of the International Round Table, analyzing experiences from parliamentarism (representation) of indigenous peoples of Canada, the USA, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland. Regional experience and prospects of development of parliamentarism among indigenous peoples of Russia are considered, and various forms of parliamentarism of indigenous peoples in political systems of the circumpolar countries are described. The book evaluates the legislation of the Russian Federation regarding the realisation of democratic participation of numerically small indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East in the political life of the country. The book is useful to deputies and indigenous peoples’ organisations which are concerned with representation of indigenous peoples in various bodies of the government at local, regional and federal levels.

This book is the product of a joint four-year effort by subsistence hunters from two Yup’ik communities on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and northern scholars researching Arctic climate change. Its title, Watching Ice and Weather Our Way, reflects the project team’s belief that northern communities and polar scholars can both benefit tremendously from one another. The book illustrates the richness and the value of traditional knowledge presented by the most experienced elders in two Yupik communities.

The book provides a glance into the surprising and fine world of the indigenous inhabitants of the boundless open spaces of the Momsk Mountains and the plains of Yakutia, the Evens. Having repeatedly visited the reindeer breeders, I have paid attention to the fact that many Northern indigenous groups leading a nomadic lifestyle have maintained their native language, while they have not so in the settlements. On these small nomadic islands the language and culture of the Evens, their survival skills under extreme conditions, and together with this methods and ways of conducting domestic reindeer breeding is kept alive. Out of this an ethnographic camp with a linguistic emphasis has been established. The environment and nomadic people help to master faster the native Even language which here is used more widely, both in daily life, in place names and the dissignations of tools.

The edition considers the various parties of military skills of the Chukchi to the entire extent known to us through written and other sources of the epoch from the second half of the 17th century when the Chukchi for the first time collided with the Siberian cossacks, and down to the beginning of the 20th century, when still there were collisions on grounds of by blood feud. Data on adjacent peoples, the Asian and American eskimos, Koryaks and Russians are included, allowing to access better the features of the military skills of the Chukchi. The book is the first in a histography devoted to the military skills of the Chukchi. It is useful not only to expert ethnographers, but also to the broad audience of readers who are interested in military skills.