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Topic: Enets people


  
  THE ENETS
Enets (enet'-enche) is the self-designation of this ethnic group the original meaning of which is 'a human being, a man'.
The maximum temperature in summer is —13 °C and the average temperature in winter is —30 °C. The Tundra Enets move in an area between the Yenisey and the Pyassina while the Wood Enets live to the north in the centre of the Dudinka territory, in wooded tundra.
In the Dudinka district, the Enets have lived side by side with the Nganasans and the Nenets, and in the Ust-Yenisey district, alone with the Nenets.
www.samoyed.org /enets.html   (1309 words)

  
 An ancient human   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
That is the people in the Southern Siberia (Nijneundinskiy area of Irkutsk region).
The name "Aleuts" was given to this people after discovery of Aleuts islands by Russian travellers, and for the first time meets in the documents of the 1747 year.
That is the people, lived along the banks of the rivers Amur and Amgun in Khabarovsk region.
library.thinkquest.org /27130/eng/4_4_4.htm   (284 words)

  
 HUNMAGYAR.ORG - TURAN - TAYMIR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Nganasans are the northernmost people of the former Soviet Union.
The Dolgans are a people of Tungusic origins, who were partly assimilated by the Yakuts, and as a result speak a dialect of the Turkic Yakut language.
The Enets have traditionally been a pastoralist people, migrating on the tundras between the left bank of the Yenisey river and the Pyasina river in the Western Taymir peninsula.
www.hunmagyar.org /turan/taymir/taymir.html   (1555 words)

  
 People Village   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Beginning sometime in the thirteenth century, people from the Hopi Mesas established a cluster of villages to the south along the Little Colorado River, attracted by the river's resources and the region's ideal conditions for growing cotton.
Turbi Village massacre - The Turbi Village massacre was the killing of sixty people by fueding clans in the Marsabit district of northern Kenya on the early morning of 12 July 2005.
People began to realize that, in the eyes of the nations were friends, and some were not, but they all shared a common way of material culture, their size and configuration were tremendously varied.
me62.maclab-usa.com /peoplevillage.html   (1445 words)

  
 BEYOND THE POINT OF NO RETURN
In 1955 Soviet military bases and a tankodrome are built between the coastal villages, people are forced to move to the inland and the Western Livonian villages are almost completely emptied.
In 1989 only 209 Enets were counted in the western part of the Taimyr Peninsula of Siberia, and only 95 of them knew their mother tongue.
Inter-marriages between the Enets and the Nganasans, Nenets, Dolgans, and Evenks were common already in the distant past, and that usually meant transition to the Nenets language.
www.suri.ee /eup/beyond.html   (1325 words)

  
 Dev. of Ed. Systems for Northern Peoples in Russia
The smallest are the Enets (350) and Oroks (450).
Indigenous peoples who choose traditional lifestyle must be provided with national-cultural autonomy under which their traditional places of habitation obtain the status of reservations or national parks.
Organizational and financial questions of reforming education for indigenous peoples of the North are to be developed in accordance with the given concept in the case of its approval within the framework of the program of realization of the project.
www.ankn.uaf.edu /curriculum/Articles/Rouslan   (4113 words)

  
 Endangered Languages of Siberia - The Enets Language
Enets territories were also included in the area crossed by one of the routs of Russian expansion (city name Mangazeya and word Samoyed/Samodiyets itself derive from the names of Enets clans).
Up to the mid-XX century Enets language has been considered a dialect of Nenets; in records of 1959 and 1979 Enets were not counted as an independent ethnic group, but were rather registered either as Nenets or as Nganasans.
In 1837 an essay of the Enets language was published by G.N. Prokofiev; in 1966 and 1993 the essays written by N.M. Tereschenko appeared.
lingsib.iea.ras.ru /en/languages/enets.shtml   (875 words)

  
 East Asian Studies 210 Notes: Samoyeds
Whoever these peoples were, and there is evidence that they may have been related to the Chukchi and Eskimo of the Bering Sea area, the Samoyedic speakers seem to have absorbed them and caused their disappearance as a distinct ethnic group.
The Tundra Enets nomadized during the summer in the tundra on both sides of the mouth of the Yenisei; the Forest Enets nomadized in the forests along the Yenisei.
Before 1600, the Enets also lived farther upriver along the Yenisei but were displaced by the Kets and Selkups moving northward away from Russian and Turkic pressures in the southern taiga.
pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ea210/samoyed.htm   (2981 words)

  
 HUNMAGYAR.ORG - TURAN - NENETSIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The indigenous peoples suffered from their commercial and political contacts with the Russians.
1950s - the Nenets are broken morally and as a nation, as the traditionally pastoralist people are forced to adopt a resident life-style in the collective farms; in the early 1950s, there were several Nenets rebellions in the Arkhangelsk area against this cultural imperialism.
The ornamentation of clothing characteristic of numerous Siberian peoples, was not common for the Selkups.
www.hunmagyar.org /turan/nenets/nenetsia.html   (2478 words)

  
 Russia : Fool Moon
By attacking the traditions of the people the new ideology incited the persecution of shamans and the destruction of sacred groves and burial grounds.
The imbalance between the number of men and women, warfare, intermingling with neighbouring peoples and the smallpox epidemics which ravaged Yakutia in 1657, 1659--1660 and 1691--1692, all contributed to a marked decline in the Yukaghir population.
Thousands of people continued to fall victim to venereal diseases and frequent famines and in 1861 there were only 1,000 Yukaghir in the province of Yakutia.
foolmoon.com /showthreaded.php/Cat/101171151/Number/262961/page/vc/vc/1   (1352 words)

  
 H N T
People can guess by the traces what state animals are in, how they behave, and what their intentions are," (Chernecov 1971: 86).
The Enets people, to catch a thief, measured the traces of his dogsleigh using a stick.
People, reindeer and dogs who are with the hunter are drawn on tree bark using charcoal (ibid.; Figure 2).
haldjas.folklore.ee /folklore/vol3/soros4.htm   (5004 words)

  
 PNBM - Russia Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
According to the 1989 census, the total population of Arctic Russia is approximately 2 million people, of whom approximately 67000 are indigenous minorities.
The main occupations of indigenous people are reindeer herding, hunting, fishing, and fur and leather craftsmanship.
The indigenous people of the region are the Dolgan, Nenets, Nganasan, Evenk, and Enets.
www.pnbm.org /info-russia.html   (1791 words)

  
 People Village   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
People began to realize that, in the community known as Seer, Matty is proud to live in Village, a place where strangers have always been welcomed, and where people treat each other with respect and kindness.
Recently, though, something dark and evil has permeated Village: the people are becoming harsh and unforgiving and there is even a movement afoot to stop welcoming strangers into Village's society.
People began to realize that, in the community known as Seer, Matty is proud to live in Village, a place where strangers have always been welcomed, and where people treat each other with
re56.mausoleumrec.com /peoplevillage.html   (1260 words)

  
 THE NENETS
The language of the Nenets belongs to the Samoyedic branch of the Uralic languages, comprising together with the Enets and Nganasan languages its Northern Group.
As the territorially widespread tongue of the most numerous Samoyedic people, Nenets has served as a kind of lingua franca, and it is a common or secondary language for the peoples of the Polar-Ural region.
In 1930 an Association for Academic Research was founded at the Institute of Northern Peoples in Leningrad, specializing in the minor ethnic groups of the Arctic regions and Siberia.
www.samoyed.org /nenets.html   (2468 words)

  
 Piers Vitebsky, The Reindeer People -- Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
This phenomenon, and the lives of the people who live with their herds, are the focus of Piers Vitebsky's The Reindeer People.
The peoples of the region, the Evenki, Eveny, Nenets, Yukaghir, Enets, Sami, and others, see their relationship with the reindeer as a partnership rather than as master and servant.
The "spirits" referred to in the subtitle are also much in evidence, an integral part of the daily life of the peoples of the north, in spite of the "civilizing" impact of the schools -- they are one part of traditional ways that lives on.
www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_vitebsky_reindeerpeople.html   (719 words)

  
 ON THE PRESERVATION OF A CULTURAL HERITAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The name of this breed is derived from the Samoyedic speaking peoples living on the tundra»s and in the taiga»s of Northern European Russia and North-west Siberia, globally stretching from the White Sea in the West to the Taymir Peninsula in Siberia.
The Enets were then living on the Eastern shores of the Yenissei river from about Golchika in the North down toward the town of Turuchansk.
All the Samoyed peoples had a nomadic life-style, except from those who had lost their reindeer by epidemics of anthrax and therefore were forced to live a more sedentary life near Russian towns and villages.
www.pads.ru /mode.980-id.1147-l.en-type.html   (4417 words)

  
 indigenous people of siberia
All of the Uralic groups remained in the Forest Zone and/or in the arctic regions except for the Hungarians who left the northern areas around 2000 B.C. and became "mounted nomads" in the steppe living in a Turkic ethnic environment between the 4th and 9th centuries A.D. Coined by O.Pritsak 1981.
Khanty, who may have numbered, together with Mansi, about 16,000 at a time when the population of Moscovite Russia was perhaps about 10 million, were not nations with a single ruler or a sense of common identity, but belonged to many separate clans, each with its own hereditary chieftains.
At the beginning of the twentieth century the peoples of the North, pushed back from the intensively colonised zone of the railway, lived as separately from the 'white men' as did the Indians of North America.
www.policy.hu /filtchenko/indigenous_people_of_siberia.htm   (986 words)

  
 The Carcinoid Cancer Foundation, Inc.
ENETS is supported via membership dues, as well as through educational grants from the pharmaceutical community.
People Living With Cancer, the patient information website of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), provides oncologist-approved information on more than 50 types of cancer and their treatments, clinical trials, coping, and side effects.
They provide lodging and support for people of all ages and all walks of life who are dealing with medical emergencies far from their homes.
www.carcinoid.org /resources/index.shtml   (1968 words)

  
 Joshua Project - Languages Listing
However, in some instances when the exact people group is not identified Joshua Project has made educated attempts at matching.
As a result some photos may be representative of the people cluster rather than the specific people group or possible incorrectly matched altogether.
People group population figures are now maintained as a percentage of the national population.
www.icta.net /joshuaproject/languages.php?ltr=E   (502 words)

  
 NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies
The Enets have traditionally been a nomadic people, wandering on the tundras between the left bank of the Yenisey river and the Pyasina river in the Western taymyr peninsula.
The biggets changes in Enets life were caused by Soviet industrialisation and the increasing immigration of ethnic Russians into Siberia.
In the new situation that was created by Glasnost and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been calls for a preservation of the original indigenous culture, and there have been protests against industrialisation.
www.nupi.no /cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Entsi   (731 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Russia, Asia
Russian is used as the second language by all except older people as a contact language, for literature, and urban professional and cultural life.
They are the northernmost people in Russia, near the Yakut, Dolgan, and Evenki peoples.
Older people have active command of the language; those 35 to 50 years of age have a passive knowledge, and children only know what they have learned in school.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/RusA.html   (3296 words)

  
 FINNS: Uralic Languge Family
The Finns loved fish and were the first people in the world to fish with nets.
Votian, spoken by 700 people (somewhat less) of the Udmurt Autonomous Republic of the former USSR; and Livonian, spoken by 500 people in the Livonia district of Latvia.
Cheremis, (Mari) spoken by 600,000 people in the district where the Kama joins the Volga, constitute the Volga-Finnic language group.
uralica.com /langclas.htm   (1611 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:enh
Ethnic population: 209 together with Forest Enets (1990 census).
In summer they wander between the left bank of the Yenisei River and the Yenisei Gulf; in winter in the grove tundras between the left tributaries of the Yenisei and Pyasino Lake on the Kheta River on the Taimyr Peninsula.
Those who assimilate with the Nenets keep the traditional way of life, those with the Russians are acculturating to modern ways.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=enh   (173 words)

  
 Enets people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Enets people (Russian: энцы; singular: энец), or Yenetses, Entsy, Entsi, Yenisei, Yenisei-Samoyed, Yenisey Samoyeds or Yeniseian people are a traditionally nomadic people who live on the east bank, near the mouth, of the Yenisei River.
Many live in the village of Potapovo in Taymyr Autonomous Okrug of Krasnoyarsk Krai in western Siberia near the arctic circle.
The Enets language is a Samoyedic language, formerly known as Yenisei Samoyedic (not to be confused with the Yeniseian language family, which is completely unrelated).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enets_people   (431 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Enets
The Enets, or Entsy, Entsi, Netets, Yenisei, Yenisei-Samoyed, Yenisey Samoyeds or Yeniseian people are a traditionally nomadic people who live on the east bank, near the mouth, of the Yenisei River, many in the village of Potalovo in the Taimyr Autonomous Territory, Taymyria of Krasnoyarsk Krai in western Siberia near the arctic circle.
The town of Potalovo was visited in the late 1990s by the British travel writer, Colin Thubron who found the Entsy deculturated and demoralized, beset with problems of alcoholism and family violence.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Enets   (446 words)

  
 Nenets Multimedia Dictionary
Nenets are a small group of people living along the Arctic Ocean between the Kola Peninsula to the west, the mouth of the Yenisey River to the east.
In Yamal their neighbours are the Hanty and in the Taimyr Okrug it is the Evenki, Dolgans, Enets and Nganasan.
An alphabet for the Nenets language was created in the 1930's based on the Central (Bolshezemelsky) dialect, which was chosen as the main dialect.
www.speech.nw.ru /DNenets/introduction.html   (1126 words)

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