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    ancient Tungus people had come into contact with the Mongols and Turks who introduced them to horses and horse breeding culture. The Tungus experimented...
    14 KB (1,683 words) - 11:36, 6 May 2024
  • "Manchurian Reindeer Tungus", but also the Khamnigan (or, officially, the "Tungus Ewenki", 通古斯鄂温克; Tōnggǔsī Èwēnkè). As both the "Manchurian Reindeer Tungus" and...
    32 KB (4,624 words) - 22:25, 4 May 2024
  • Lindgren began to investigate reindeer nomadism in Swedish Lapland. She would later publish several works on the Reindeer Tungus of Manchuria, which included...
    7 KB (708 words) - 17:56, 21 February 2024
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    theory, the Tungus (the ancestors of the present Evenks and Evens) independently domesticated reindeer to the east of Lake Baikal, and that reindeer herding...
    26 KB (3,317 words) - 05:43, 31 March 2024
  • "reindeer people" and is cognate with the names of the Orochs (urakka, uroot, urhot,) of Khabarovsk Province and the Oroks of Sakhalin. ("Horse Tungus"...
    88 KB (10,277 words) - 08:21, 26 April 2024
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    transformed into a reindeer, the shaman feels himself to be "swift, vigilant, watchful, the best animal the Tungus know." Reindeer antlers, in particular...
    14 KB (2,112 words) - 08:31, 8 August 2022
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    Manchu-Tungus languages, a group which also includes Even and Negidal. Many Evenks in Russia still engage in a traditional lifestyle of raising reindeer, fishing...
    37 KB (3,657 words) - 21:21, 29 April 2024
  • Evenki (/eɪˈvɛnki/ ay-VEN-kee), formerly known as Tungus, is the largest member of the northern group of Tungusic languages, a group which also includes...
    46 KB (3,638 words) - 09:42, 6 May 2024
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    steppes and would go on to significantly influence the Samoyedic, Ket, and Tungus populations of the Eastern Sayan Mountains. Despite adopting their language...
    22 KB (2,667 words) - 21:22, 29 April 2024
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    moved east of the Yenisey, where it carried away up to 80 percent of the Tungus and Yakut populations. In the 1690s, smallpox epidemics reduced Yukagir...
    35 KB (3,925 words) - 13:12, 12 May 2024
  • self-naming of these peoples, but an exonym, i.e., assigned to them by Manchu, Tungus, or Russians, sometimes due to misunderstanding. Therefore old documents...
    16 KB (1,641 words) - 21:40, 19 May 2024
  • Antonov, P.E. (1995), Тунгусское восстание: ошибок можно было избежать [Tungus uprising: mistakes could be avoided] (in Russian), Yakutsk: Ilin Gogolev...
    13 KB (490 words) - 13:51, 9 February 2024
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    cataloged 13 breeds of laikas: Zyryan, Finno-Karelian, Vogul, Cheremis, Ostyak, Tungus, Votyak, Galician, Ostyak, Norvegian, Buryatian, Soyotian, Laplandian and...
    14 KB (1,178 words) - 18:36, 10 December 2023
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    “There are two breeds of dogs, one is so-called Tungus Laika, a pointed-eared dog of nomadic reindeer herders and polar sled dog. Sled dog is a burden...
    10 KB (1,162 words) - 12:11, 1 January 2024
  • the Evens in Siberia. It is spoken by widely scattered communities of reindeer herders from Kamchatka and the Sea of Okhotsk in the east to the Lena river...
    10 KB (645 words) - 12:15, 1 May 2024
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    natives were Lamuts, a branch of the Tungus who are now called Evens. Like most coastal Siberians, they were reindeer herders in the interior with a few...
    14 KB (2,163 words) - 17:12, 4 February 2024
  • an intermediate group between the northern and southern branch of Manchu-Tungus classify Uilta (and Nanai) as Central Tungusic. Within Central Tungusic...
    23 KB (2,263 words) - 12:35, 16 May 2024
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    Akademija nauk. Jochelson, Waldemar. 1926. The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, 9, 13. Publications...
    12 KB (1,056 words) - 08:53, 8 February 2024
  • of any goodwill. Armed detachments of Russian Cossacks seized Yakut and Tungus settlements, plundered them, and the adult male population was either killed...
    22 KB (2,604 words) - 20:37, 5 March 2024
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    Kalmyk and Ladakhi people in Nepal, and among various Altai, Turkic, and Tungus tribes. The first printed version was a Mongolian text published in Beijing...
    50 KB (6,437 words) - 12:47, 19 May 2024
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