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Indigenous people: Nenets: Yamal
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Obdorsk
fortress
Reconstruction of Obdorsk fortress from 16th century,in Salekhard
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A Nenets
queen
A portrait of Nenets woman Yevdokiya Vylka in a national costume.
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Holly
sledges
Holly sledges are always far away from living place.
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Portrait
of Dmitry Khorolya
Dmitry Khorolya (Khorolja) is the chairman of sovkhoz Yarsalinsky, and
the association of Reindeer herders of Russia
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Preparing
fish
A Nenets woman (Anna Nogo) is preparing fish in a chum.
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By a
sacred place.
A man is by the sacrifice place of the Khudi clan. Holly sledges to the
left.
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Raising
the chum
A young Nenets girl (Olga Nogo) raise the sticks for the chum (lavvu,
tent)
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Making
food
Anna Nogo is sitting near the fire and is making food.
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Nenets
idol, Pukhuzya
The house idol (god), is carried in every Nenets chum during the
migration over the tundra
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A lucky
boy
A small boy got sweets after visit by helicopter
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Who win?
A traditional competition/game in the tundra
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Nikolay
Nogo speaking by radio
Is the Norwegian there? Asks the operator in the Sovkhoz Yarsalinsky.
Yes, he is. And you will not get him back before we get the seven pair
of rubber boots which we are promised!\\\\
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You looks
limpy and need vitamins, says Nikolay
You looks limpy and need vitamins, says Nikolay and gives the cup with
fresh blood to Misha. Blood and raw meat is important for the arctic
people to get vitamins.\\A gruop of Nenets reindeer herdes eat raw meat
and drink blood
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Eating
raw meat
Eating raw meat is important for the people who not have vegetables
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Nikolaj
and children.
Nikolay speaking in the radio.The only way to connect with
"civilization" in tundra is the portable radio transmitter. Nikolay Nogo
is working in the sovkhoz Yarsalinskiy.\\
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Mosquitoes!
On the way from river Pur up to the Bear Mountain - together with
millions of Mosquitoes..
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A
Neshchang home
A Forest Nenets chum - in the entrance babushka Ludmila Aivaseda and
small Maria.
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A
Neshchang woman with her grand children.
The Forest Nenets nation is smaller than the Tundra Nenets. They live in
the Taiga area . Aivaseda family are part of this nation, their summer
living place is called Apydye Njadeye, which means "Bear Mountain". This
is their forefathers land. But now the
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In the
chum of the Aivaseda family
The Aivaseda family want to continue their nomadic life: - The forest
gives us meat, fish and everything else we need. In the villages we
depend 100 percent of the authorities.
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Fifteen
snow scooters for their ancestors land.
When the first geologist came to Apydye Njadeye, the forest Nenets got
15 snow scooters for letting the geologists search for oil. If they
found anything, there should be made a new agreement. But it hasn't
happened, and now the oil companies have got all
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Making
bread.
This woman is making bread on an own which is called "burjuika".
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Checking
the net
Ignye Aivaseda is checking a traditional forest Nenets fish trap
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Preparing
fish.
One of the main occupation of Forest Nenets is fishing on the river Pur.
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Lunch
time.
A Neshchang family have a meal in their chum.
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Ignye
tries a new made bullet
Ignye Aivaseda tries a new made bullet (slug) for his shotgun. It has
already got the name of the bear it should kill.
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Once we
were warriors.
A boy is shooting with a bow. To day the bow and arrow is just used for
hunting or for playing
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Novy
Urengoy
The oil production in the land of the Forest Nenets, have made the
population in Yamal-Nenets autonomous district increase six times from
1970 - 1990. The city of Noyabrsk and Noviy Urengoy have both
approximately 100.000 citizens, and have conquered a lo
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The
happiness of dancing
A dancer of the folklore group Syra Sev (Smow-flake), during the
festival of Indigenous people in Salehard
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A winter
dance
Dancers of the folklore group Syra Sev perform a "winter dance", during
the festival of Indigenous people in Salehard
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The
cleaning smoke.
This old ceremony was made during the festival in Salekhard. The picture
shows the cleaning process for participants of a sacrefice ceremony.
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here
should not float any blood, but the reindeers
On this world, there should not float any blood, but the reindeers, says
the leader of the indigenous people of Russia (RAIPON), Sergey
Kharuchiy, after he got the blood mark in his brow - an ancient symbol
of blessing
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A blood
sacrifice
Among the Nenets and Khanty people, the blood sacrifice is the most
powerful sacrifice. Here is sacred blood for the sacrifice meal during
the festival in Salekhard 1999 .
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The food
of the sacred ceremony.
It's not only blood and raw meat which is the food for the sacred
ceremony. There are also served, boiled meat, bread, sweets and vodka.
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Hanging
up the donation
It is a tradition to hang the head of the scarified reindeer up in a
three after the ceremony.
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A women
talk.
Two Nenets women in beautiful national dresses, have a pep talk.
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The
fortress of Obdorsk
The fortress of Obdorsk. Obdorsk was one of the first fortified towns in
West-Siberia, established in 1595. In 1933 the city changed name to
Salekhard.\\\\(c) Ye. A. Opolovnikova, from the book "Drevnuj Obdorsk i
Zapolyarnye goroda legendy, Moscow 1998. T
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Nenets
sledges.
Nenets sledges. Nenets reindeer people often leave their winter or
summer things in the sledges on their migration, and pick them up on the
way back. But now it is a problem for them to do this because of
thieves.
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