Unified list of indigenous minority peoples of the North, Siberia, and the Far East of Russia
The Indigenous small numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East (Russian: коренные малочисленные народы Севера, Сибири и Дальнего Востока) are indigenous peoples of Russia with each less than 50,000 members, living in the Russian Far North and officially equivalent territories located in the European North of Russia, Siberia.[1] They are frequently referred as indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North or even indigenous peoples of the North.
Definition
Today, 40 indigenous peoples are officially recognised as indigenous small-numbered peoples by way of inclusion into the unified register of indigenous small-numbered peoples (единый перечень коренных, малочисленных народов Российкой Федерации). This register includes 46 indigenous peoples (which implies being less than 2.3 million people). Six of these peoples do not live in either the Extreme North or territories equated to it, so that the total number of recognised indigenous peoples of the North is 40.[2] In addition the Komi-Izhemtsy or Izvatas, a subgroup of the Komi peoples are currently seeking recognition as a distinct indigenous people of the North.
The Far North is the part of Russia which lies mainly beyond the Arctic Circle. However, they make up the smaller part of the actual territories inhabited by the indigenous peoples, which extend southwards as far as to Vladivostok.
List of indigenous peoples of the North
The Unified register lists the following peoples:
- Aleuts (алеуты): Kamchatka Krai - 700
- Alyutors (алюторцы): Kamchatka Krai
- Chelkans (челканцы)
- Chukchis (чукчи): Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Magadan Oblast, Kamchatka Krai - 15,767
- Chulyms (чулымцы), Tomsk Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai - 656
- Chuvans (чуванцы): Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Magadan Oblast
- Dolgans (долганы): Krasnoyarsk Krai, Sakha Republic
- Enets (*) (энцы) (Yenets, Russian plural: Entsy, obsolete: Yenisei Samoyeds, Yenisei Ostyak, Kets): Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Eskimo (Siberian Yupik, Inuit) (эскимосы): Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
- Evenks (эвенки)
- Evens (эвены)
- Itelmens (ительмены): Kamchatka Krai, Magadan Oblast
- Kamchadals (камчадалы, a general term for mixed population of Kamchatka Peninsula): Kamchatka Krai
- Kereks (кереки): Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
- Kets (кеты)
- Khanty (ханты): (Old Russian Term: Ostyaks), Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug,
- Koryaks (коряки): Kamchatka Krai, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Magadan Oblast
- Kumandins (кумандинцы)
- Mansi (манси), (Old Russian term: Voguls), Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug,
- Nanai (нанайцы)
- Negidals (негидальцы)
- Nenets (*) (Russian plural: Nentsy, old Russian name Samoyeds) (ненцы):Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Komi Republic
- Nganasans (Tavgi) (нганасаны): Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Nivkhs (нивхи)
- Orok peopleor Ulta (ороки)
- Oroch people (орочи)
- Sami (old Russian name Lopars, i.e., Lapp) (саамы, саами): Murmansk Oblast - 1,991
- Selkups (селькупы)
- Shors (шорцы)
- Soyots (сойоты)
- Taz (тазы)
- Telengits (теленгиты)
- Teleuts (телеуты)
- Tofalars or Tofa (тофалары или тофы)
- Tubalars (тубалары)
- Tozhu (тувинцы-тоджинцы), a subgroup of the Tuvans: Tyva republic
- Udege (удэгейцы)
- Ulchs (ульчи)
- Veps (*) (вепсы): Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast
- Yukaghirs (юкагиры): Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Magadan Oblast
See also
References
- ^ [1] Template:Ru icon
- ^ Official is attached to: Decree of the Russian Government Nr 255 "On the Unified Register of Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the Russian Federation", 24 March 2000 (Постановление Правительства РФ от 24 марта 2000 г. N 255 "О Едином перечне коренных малочисленных народов Российской Федерации Template:Ru icon) http://base.garant.ru/181870.htm