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36-817: The Tunguska Plateau is named after the historical name of the Evenks . The Tunguska Plateau is located in central Krasnoyarsk Krai. To the north it is limited by the Kureika River and to the south by the Stony Tunguska River . To the north and northeast rise the Putorana Mountains and to the east the border with the Syverma Plateau is not clearly defined. To the west the Tunguska Plateau descends quite abruptly towards

72-440: A life of mobility   ... they wore brief garments of soft reindeer or elk skin around their hips, along with leggings and moccasins, or else long supple boots reaching to the thigh" (49). They also wore a deerskin coat that did not close in front but was instead covered with an apron-like cloth. Some Evenkis decorated their clothing with fringes or embroidery (50). The Evenki traditional costume always consisted of these elements:

108-570: A loincloth made of animal hide, leggings, and boots of varying lengths Facial tattooing was also very common. The traditional Evenki economy was a mix of pastoralism (horses or reindeer), fishing, and hunting. The Evenki who lived near the Okhotsk Sea hunted seal, but for most of the taiga-dwellers, elk, wild reindeer, and fowl were the most important game animals. Other animals included "roe deer, bear, wolverine, lynx, wolf, Siberian marmot, fox, and sable" Trapping did not become important until

144-1223: Is N (34 %). 18 percent belong to its subgroup N1b-P43 and 16 percent belong to subgroup N1c . Other paternal haplogroups found among them are R1a (14 %), R1b (6 %), F (4 %) and I (2 %). nomadization Look for Nomadization on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Nomadization in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

180-666: Is about 2,500,000 km . In all of Russia only the Russians inhabit a larger territory. According to the administrative structure, the Evenki live, from west to east, in: However, the territory where they are a titular nation is confined solely to the Evenk Autonomous Okrug, where 3,802 of the 35,527 Evenki live (according to the 2002 census). More than 18,200 Evenki live in the Sakha Republic . Evenki

216-768: Is also a similarly named Siberian group called the Evens (formerly known as Lamuts ). Although related to the Evenki, the Evens are now considered to be a separate ethnic group. The Evenki are spread over a huge territory of the Siberian taiga from the River Ob in the west to the Okhotsk Sea in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to Manchuria and Sakhalin in the south. The total area of their habitat

252-881: Is forbidden to torment an animal, bird, or insect, and a wounded animal must be finished off immediately. It is forbidden to spill the blood of a killed animal or defile it. It is forbidden to kill animals or birds that were saved from pursuit by predators or came to a person for help in a natural disaster." Prior to contact with the Russians, the belief system of the Evenki was animistic . Many have adopted Tibetan Buddhism . The Evenki, like most nomadic, pastoral, and subsistence agrarian peoples, spend most of their lives in very close contact with nature. Because of this, they develop what A. A. Sirina calls an "ecological ethic". By this she means "a system of responsibility of people to nature and her spirit masters, and of nature to people"(9). Sirina interviewed many Evenki who until very recently spent much of their time as reindeer herders in

288-706: Is the largest of the northern group of the Manchu-Tungus languages , a group which also includes Even and Negidal . Many Evenki in Russia still engage in a traditional lifestyle of raising reindeer, fishing, and hunting. According to the 2021 census 39,226 Evenki lived in Russia. At the 2000 census, there were 30,505 Evenki in China, mainly made up of the Solons and the Khamnigans . 88.8% of China's Evenki live in

324-676: The Hulunbuir region in the north of the Inner Mongolia Province, near the city of Hailar . The Ewenki Autonomous Banner is also located near Hulunbuir. There are also around 3,000 Evenki in neighbouring Heilongjiang Province. The Manchu Emperor Hong Taiji conquered the Evenki in 1640, and executed their leader Bombogor . After the Manchu conquest, the Evenki were incorporated into the Eight Banners . In 1763,

360-607: The Manchus . The ancestors of the south-eastern Evenki most likely lived in the Baikal region of Southern Siberia (near the modern-day Mongolian border) since the Neolithic era. Considering the north-western Evenki, Vasilevich claims: "The origin of the Evenki is the result of complex processes, different in time, involving the mixing of different ancient aboriginal tribes from the north of Siberia with tribes related in language to

396-598: The Qing government moved 500 Solon Evenki and 500 Daur families to the Tacheng and Ghulja areas of Xinjiang , in order to strengthen the empire's western border. Another 1020 Xibe families (some 4000 persons) also came the following year. Since then, however, the Solons of Xinjiang have assimilated into other ethnic groups, and are not identified as such anymore. The Japanese occupation led to many murders of Evenkis, and Evenki men were conscripted as scouts and rangers by

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432-765: The Yenisei River valley and to the southeast rises the Angara Range . The largest river having its sources in the plateau is the Bakhta , a right tributary of the Yenisei. Other rivers river flowing from it are: Erachimo, Nimde, Kochumdek, Tutonchana, Degali and Uchami (tributaries of the Lower Tunguska); and Stolbovaya and Kondroma (right tributaries of the Stony Tunguska). The average height of

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504-597: The permafrost zone and the soil never thaws at great depths. The climate prevailing in the Tunguska Plateau is subarctic continental . Evenks The Evenki , also known as the Evenks and formerly as the Tungus , are a Tungusic people of North Asia . In Russia, the Evenki are recognised as one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North , with a population of 38,396 ( 2010 census ). In China,

540-513: The 17th century, the Russian empire made contact with the Evenki. Cossacks , who served as a kind of "border-guard" for the tsarist government, imposed a fur tax on the Siberian tribes. The Cossacks exploited the Evenki clan hierarchy, taking hostages from the highest members to ensure payment of the tax. Although there was some rebellion against local officials, the Evenki generally recognized

576-904: The Evenki Banner (county) of the Hulunbuir Prefecture, in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. While not a particularly good informant, she described her initiatory illness, her multiyear apprenticeship with a Mongol shaman before being allowed to heal at the age of 25 or 26, and the torments she experienced during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s when most of her shamanic paraphernalia was destroyed. Mongol and Buddhist Lamaist influences on her indigenous practice of shamansim were evident. She hid her prize possession—an Abagaldi (bear spirit) shaman mask, which has also been documented among

612-462: The Evenki caused them (and other indigenous peoples) language erosion , a decline in traditions, and identity loss, among others. This was especially true during the Soviet regime. Soviet policies of collectivization , forced sedentarization (sometimes referred to as sedentism ), " unpromising villages ", and Russification of the education system compromised social, cultural, and mental well-being of

648-706: The Evenki form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognised by the People's Republic of China , with a population of 30,875 ( 2010 census ). There are 537 Evenki in Mongolia (2015 census), called Khamnigan in the Mongolian language . The Evenki or Ewenki are sometimes conjectured to be connected to the Shiwei people who inhabited the Greater Khingan Range in the 5th to 9th centuries, although

684-890: The Evenki to "colonize vast areas of the eastern taiga which had previously been impenetrable" The Evenki used a saddle unique to their culture, placed on the shoulders of the reindeer to lessen the strain on the animal, and used a stick rather than stirrups to balance. Evenki did not develop reindeer sledges until comparatively recent times They instead used their reindeer as pack animals and often traversed great distances on foot, using snowshoes or skis. The Evenki people did hunt and eat wild reindeer, but not their domesticated reindeer, which they kept for milk. Large herds of reindeer were very uncommon. Most Evenki had around 25 head of reindeer, because they were generally bred for transportation. Unlike in several other neighboring tribes Evenki reindeer-breeding did not include "herding of reindeer by dogs nor any other specific features". Very early in

720-921: The Evenki. The Evenki were formerly known as tungus . This designation was spread by the Russians , who acquired it from the Yakuts (in the Yakut language tongus ) in the 17th century. The Evenki have several self-designations, of which the best known is evenk . This became the official designation for the people in 1931. Some groups call themselves orochen ('an inhabitant of the River Oro'), orochon ('a rearer of reindeer '), ile ('a human being'), etc. At one time or another tribal designations and place names have also been used as self-designations, for instance manjagir , birachen , solon , etc. Several of these have even been taken for separate ethnic entities. There

756-925: The Evenkis in China) and the Khamnigans (Ewenkis of Transbaikalia ) had picked up horse breeding and the Mongolian deel from the Mongols . The Solons nomadized along the Amur River . They were closely related to the Daur people . To the west the Khamnigan were another group of horse-breeding Evenki in the Transbaikalia area. Also in the Amur valley a body of Siberian Evenki-speaking people were called Orochen by

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792-578: The Japanese secret service in 1942. Some Evenkis fled to Soviet Siberia across the Amur river after murdering a Japanese officer to avoid punishment from the Japanese. The Evenki of China today tend to be settled pastoralists and farmers. (Only includes counties or county-equivalents containing >0.1% of China's Evenki population.) According to the 2001 census, there were 48 Evenki living in Ukraine . The majority (35) stated that their native language

828-537: The Mongols and Dauer peoples in the region. The field report and color photographs of this shaman are available online. Olga Kudrina (c. 1890–1944) was a shaman among the Reindeer Evenki of northern Inner Mongolia along the Amur River 's Great Bend (today under the jurisdiction of Genhe , Hulunbuir ). 40 percent of Evenki men carry haplogroup C-M217 . Their second most common Y-DNA haplogroup

864-473: The Tunguska Plateau is made up of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks with volcanic rock intrusions —mainly trap rock and tuff . The plateau is part of the East Siberian taiga ecoregion . It is entirely covered by somewhat sparse and undersized larch taiga , except on the highest summits where only mountain tundra grows. There are swamps in the river valleys. The Tunguska Plateau is located in

900-418: The Tunguska Plateau surface is between 600 meters (2,000 ft) and 800 meters (2,600 ft). The slopes of the mountains are often stepped and river valleys tend to form deep canyons in some areas. The Lower Tunguska River crosses the plateau and divides it roughly into two halves. The highest point is a 962 metres (3,156 ft) high unnamed summit in the southern half of the northern part. Geologically

936-647: The Turks and Mongols. The language of these tribes took precedence over the languages of the aboriginal population". Elements of more modern Evenki culture, including conical tent dwellings, bone fish-lures, and birch-bark boats, were all present in sites that are believed to be Neolithic. From Lake Baikal, "they spread to the Amur and Okhotsk Sea   ... the Lena Basin   ... and the Yenisey Basin". In

972-550: The development of the views of spirit-masters There are few sources on the shamanism of the Evenki peoples below the Amur/Helongkiang river in Northern China. There is a brief report of fieldwork conducted by Richard Noll and Kun Shi in 1994 of the life of the shamaness Dula'r (Evenki name), also known as Ao Yun Hua (her Han Chinese name). She was born in 1920 and was living in the village of Yiming Gatsa in

1008-506: The horse and cattle pastoral Evenki as well as some farming Evenki". The Evenki lived mostly in taiga , or boreal forest. They lived in conical tents made from birch bark or reindeer skin tied to birch poles. When they moved camp, the Evenki would leave these frameworks and carry only the more portable coverings. During winter, the hunting season, most camps consisted of one or two tents while spring encampments had up to 10 households Their skill at riding their domesticated reindeer allowed

1044-419: The imposition of the fur tax by the tsarist government. Before they acquired guns in the 18th century, Evenki used steel bows and arrows. Along with their main hunting implements, hunters always carried a "pike"—"which was a large knife on a long handle used instead of an axe when passing through thick taiga, or as a spear when hunting bear". The Evenki have deep respect for animals and all elements of nature: "It

1080-640: The native land of the majority of Evenki people is in the vast regions of Siberia between Lake Baikal and the Amur River . The Evenki language forms the northern branch of the Manchu-Tungusic language group and is closely related to Even and Negidal in Siberia . By 1600 the Evenki or Ewenki of the Lena and Yenisey river valleys were successful reindeer herders . By contrast the Solons (ancestors of

1116-499: The need for peaceful cultural relations with the Russians. The Russians and their constant demands for fur taxes pushed the Evenki east all the way to Sakhalin island, where some still live today. In the 19th century some groups migrated south and east into Mongolia and Manchuria. Today there are still Evenki populations in Sakhalin, Mongolia, and Manchuria, and to a lesser extent, their traditional Baikal region. Russian invasion of

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1152-481: The spring season, winter camps broke up and moved to places suitable for calving. Several households pastured their animals together throughout the summer, being careful to keep "[s]pecial areas   ... fenced off   ... to guard the newborn calves against being trampled on in a large herd" The Evenki wore a characteristic garb "adapted to the cold but rather dry climate of the Central Siberia and to

1188-505: The taiga" The religious beliefs and practices of the Evenki are of great historical interest since they retain some archaic forms of belief. Among the most ancient ideas are spiritualization and personification of all natural phenomena, belief in an upper, middle, and lower world, belief in the soul ( omi ) and certain totemistic concepts. There were also various magical rituals associated with hunting and guarding herds. Later on, these rituals were conducted by shamans. Shamanism brought about

1224-540: The taiga, just like their ancestors. The Evenki people also spoke along the same lines: their respect for nature and their belief that nature is a living being. This idea, "[t]he embodiment, animation, and personification of nature—what is still called the animistic worldview—is the key component of the traditional worldview of hunter-gatherers" Although most of the Evenkis have been "sedentarized"—that is, made to live in settled communities instead of following their traditional nomadic way of life —"[m]any scholars think that

1260-410: The worldview characteristic of hunter-gatherer societies is preserved, even if they make the transition to new economic models. Although nominally Christianized in the 18th century, the Evenki people maintain many of their historical beliefs—especially shamanism The Christian traditions were "confined to the formal performance of Orthodox rites which were usually timed for the arrival of the priest in

1296-453: Was Russian ; four indicated Evenki as their native language, and three that it was Ukrainian . Traditionally they were a mixture of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers —they relied on their domesticated reindeer for milk and transport and hunted other large game for meat. Today "[t]he Evenki are divided into two large groups   ... engaging in different types of economy. These are the hunting and reindeer-breeding Evenki   ... and

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