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  The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The Itelmens inhabit the area between Sedanka and Sopochnoye on the western coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
On an administrative level the territory of the Itelmens forms a part of the Tigil District of the Koryak Autonomous Territory in the Kamchatka Region of the Russian Federation.
Itelmen is supposed to have separated from the common proto-language earlier than the Chukchi and the Koryak languages.
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 Kamchatka History | Volcano Expedition to Kamchatka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Itelmen translates into "living here", becoming the nationality of the tribe upon settlement of the rugged mountain region of the south.
The Itelmen believe that all dangerous places, such as volcanoes, hot springs, forests, water, etc., are inhabited by devils, which they fear and respect more than their gods.
Itelmens myths say that the mountains and valleys were formed when the first ancestor Kutkh was riding in dog sleds.
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 Jaanus Paal - Works
The course of the occupation is analysed and the process of annihilation of the local nations (Chukchis, Koryaks, Itelmens and Ainus) described.
Fortunately for him, the leader of the rebellion of the Cossacks, Antsiferov, was killed in 1712 by the Itelmens on the Avacha River.
After the Itelmens' uprising had been suppressed at the time of Bering's last expedition, their backbone of resistance was definitely broken.
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 Minority languages of Russia on the Net - Itelmen language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Spoken on the western coast of the Kamchatka peninsula (Koryak autonomous district and the Magadan region.
The surviving "Western Itelmen" was either a dialect or an individual language of the Itelmen branch of Luorawetlan languages, the rest of which became extinct by the 20th century.
The Itelmen written language created in 1932 on the basis of the Latin alphabet was later discontinued.
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 The Itelmens of Kamchatka
The Ushkovskaya settlement was inhabited by the ancestors of contemporary Itelmens.
The main occupation of Itelmens was fishing, they were catching fish by nets made of nettle, they made big stocks of fish by winding it and storing in the special pits, but there was no salt and the process was hard.
The Itelmens were not nomads, they lived permanently in big settlements along the sea coast and along the river and lake banks, rich in fish.
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 Kamchatka, Native people: Koryaks, Itelmens, Evens and Evenky (tunguses), Chukchis, Aleuts
Itelmens life in summer was spent near some water resources and on them.
The Itelmens ate a lot of fish, preferred baked one (chuprikh) and fish cakes "telno", they ate young sprouts and runners of Filepinolium Maxim, Heracleum Dulse Fish (processed and ate them only after they acquired stinging power); as a medicine against scurvy they used cedar cones with dry salmon caviar chasing this mixture with tea.
Itelmens clothes were extraordinary, they were made of sable, fox, snow sheep, dog's skin with numerous ermine tassels and fluffy edged sleeves, hood, collar and hem.
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 Endangered Languages of Siberia - The Itelmen Language
Itelmens, living on Kamchatka Peninsula, are considered to be its aboriginal population; other peoples, who inhabit (or inhabited) Kamchatka - Koryak and Ainu – came their later.
By the beginning of the XVIII century Itelmen counted from 12 to 15 thousand people; their language is divided in three mutually comprehensible dialects (western, eastern and southern).
Itelmen language is agglutinative and inflexional; besides, prefixes and suffixes, circumfixes, as well as reduplication, are quite wide spread.
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 Itelmens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Itelmen, sometimes known as Kamchadal, are an ethnic group who are the original inhabitants living on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia.
The Itelmen language (ethnonym: Itelmen) is distantly related to Chukchi and Koryak, forming the Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family, but it is now virtually extinct, the vast majority of ethnic Itelmens being native speakers of Russian.
Theirs was a substantial hunter-gatherer and fishing society with up to fifty thousand natives inhabiting the peninsula before they were decimated by the Cossacks in the eighteenth century.
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 Kamchatka: Remote Secret
Reportedly, Atlasov was incredibly cruel to the native Itelmens and Koryaks people, forcing them to pay respects to the Russian empire by providing a surplus of animal furs.
Many violent incidents occurred due to the indigenous Itelmens' pride and refusal to be humiliated out of their culture.
Countless Itelmen suicides took place due to Cossack cruelty, and many Russian occupants were speared and burnt to death in traps.
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 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 5
I was born in the village of Sedanka-Osedlaya, Tigilskiy District in 1941.
Their motives to learn the Itelmen language differ and their achievements in mastering the subject are not of the same level either.
It is most important to make the Itelmen language carriers absorb the idea that they are the last ones so that they will pass on their rich knowledge of the language and culture to people and science.
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 ::: IBT - January 28, 2003 :::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Itelmens are natives of the Kamchatka peninsula and number only about 2,000, but among them are many champions of the cause for retaining their language and culture.
The Itelmen Gospel of Luke, with its parallel Russian word-by-word translation, is also of special interest to linguists.
Cooperating with other translation agencies and local churches, IBT is currently involved in translating the Bible into 80 languages spoken in the former USSR.
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 The Itelmens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Itelmens - also previously called Kamchadals - is one of the 30 indigenous groups of people of the northern and eastern Siberia.
During the years of the colonization the number of Itelmens was severely reduced and strongly subjected to russification.
Traditionally the Itelmens are fishermen, hunters and gatherers.
www.stud.hio.no /jbi/bibin/hovedopp/riddu/eng/itelmen.htm   (0 words)

  
 Asia Times: Northern Russia demands end to economic exile
Characteristically, Kamchatka Itelmens, an indigenous Paleo-Siberian group, decided to boycott the celebrations of the 300th anniversary of Kamchatka becoming part of the Russian empire.
The Itelmens argued that it was time that Russia admitted that it had captured Kamchatka as a colony.
Now few more than 1,400 Itelmens live in Kamchatka out of an estimated population of 15,000 when Russia first colonized the area.
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 DOG SLEDDING WAY OF LIFE IN KAMCHATKA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The dog was the only animal available for hunting and pulling sleds and it determined the very possibility of life and dispersion of humans under conditions of that time.
This is why Itelmens believed that dogs were participants in the creation of the world.
Myths of Itelmens tell us that mountains and valleys were formed when the first ancestor Kutkh was riding in dog sleds.
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 Institut für Bibelübersetzung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As is the case with all peoples of the North, they suffer from poverty and alcoholism and their lives are without hope.
In 2002 and 2003 IBT published Luke’s Gospel for the Evens and the Itelmens, and now it was the turn of the Koryaks to have their Gospel of Luke.
“An Itelmen woman came up to me and told me that she sings the Gospel text with her drum, as is their tradition.
www.ibt.org.ru /english/info/month_april06.htm   (0 words)

  
 Kamchatka Peninsula   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I'd read that the extraordinarily tall grass that grows on Kamchatka, puchka, if distilled, makes a heady draught that results in hallucinations and a suicidal hangover the next day.
The indigenous Itelmens had extracted sugar from it, but, predictably enough, it was the Cossacks who attempted to distil it, effectively hampering the colonisation of the peninsula which began in the 17th century.
The Itelmens feared the volcanoes of their land.
www.nomadom.net /russia/kamchatka.htm   (0 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:German TV company completes shooting of film about Itelmens in Kamchatka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The socio-legal channel of the German ZDF TV company has completed in Kamchatka the shooting of a film about the Itelmens, The Shores of Russia.
On Friday the shooting crew left for Germany, where the premiere of the film is due on August 14, RIA Novosti was told in the Lach ethno-ecological information center.
In the Kovran village (Koryak autonomous area) the TV group shot the life of the Itelmen village, the catching by clan communities of the spawning smelt, the first fish holiday and the performance of the Elvel folk song and dance company.
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 PBS - Harriman: David Koester
Remaining in Kamchatka after the climbs, he met with a small group of Kamchatkans who were traveling from central Kamchatka to the west coast to bring horses to their village.
Several of the party, Native Itelmens, introduced him to Itelmen language and life during an eight-day trek to the remote Itelmen villages of Verkhny, Khairiuzovo and Kovran.
Koester returned with two graduate students for a year of fieldwork in Itelmen and neighboring villages, and, since that time, has made several trip to Kamchatka.
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 PBS - Harriman: David Koester - The Historical Dynamics of Politics, Culture and Social Life in the Russian Far East
Indigenous peoples in the Soviet Union were forced to resettle beginning in the 1950s, and the evacuations from villages contributed greatly to the feeling of cultural loss.
His reply came almost as if he had expected and set up my response: "Aang." Hoping to explain that the my question's intent was just the opposite of what he might think, I said that I had been working with Itelmens in Kamchatka and had recently been helping with preparation of language preservation materials.
Many Russians who have settled in Kamchatka, for example, think of the Itelmen people as either dissolved into the Russian community or without a language of their own and hence fully assimilated.
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 Lengua Itelmen o Kamchadal
Durante mucho tiempo la itelmen fue incluida, con la chukchi y la koriako, en un único grupo, pero estudios recientes han demostrado que las similitudes entre ellas son atribuibles a lazos de difusión geográfica más que a razones genéticas.
300 itelmen étnicos, aunque se ha señalado que ese dato no refleja la realidad de la lengua que es hablada con fluidez por muchas menos personas y cuya edad sobrepasa los 50 años.
Se ha especulado sobre si los itelmens constituyen un solo grupo o son tres tribus aborígenes, cada una de ellas con su propia lengua.
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 Koryakia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ethnic groups: Of the 25,157 residents (as of the 2002 census) 195 (0.8%) chose not to specify their ethnic background.
Of the rest, residents identified themselves as belonging to 61 ethnic groups, including 12,719 ethnic Russians (50.5%), 6,710 Koryaks (26.6%), 1,412 Chukchis (5.6%), 1,181 Itelmens (4.7%), 1,029 Ukrainians (4.08%), 751 Evens (2.9%), 216 Tatars (0.86%), 142 Belarusians (0.56%), 132 Kamchadals (0.52%) and so on.
On December 1, 2005, Perm Oblast and Permyakia will be merged to form Perm Krai.
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 Our Beautiful World: The Indigenous People of Kamchatka
For an economy based on hunting and gathering, Kamchatka was rather densely inhabited.
Now the population of the Itelmen stabilized at about 1,500 - 2,000 people.
But as time went by, at the beginning of the 20th century, Itelmens and Ainu had been
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 Koryaks and Kamchatka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A map of Kamchatka and the Russian Far East is available as a jpeg (89k).
Chukchi, Itel'mens, and Evens constitute the other native groups in the Regions, but Russians and Ukrainians make up over 75% of the total population.
A steady emigration of non-natives back to their homes in the European part of the former Soviet Union has changed these number since the 1989 census, but reliable current statistics are not available.
www.koryaks.net /geo.html   (0 words)

  
 Kamchatka publications...
Itelmen Language and Culture, translator and editor of English sector of multimedia CD, Itel'menskii iazyk i kul-tura by K. Khaloimova, E. Kasten and M. Dürr, Waxmann/Max Planck Institute, 2001.
"Itel'mens" by A. Volodin and "Koryaks" by I.­C. Vdovin and A.­P. Volodin, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol.
"The first Itelmen author?" with Jonathan David Bobaljik, Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas Newsletter.
www.faculty.uaf.edu /ffdck/html/KamchatkaPubsPres.htm   (0 words)

  
 Siberian Studies Resursy
Zaporotski O.N. [Itelmens, political economy, sustainable development, obshchina] PDF
Bazarkin V.N. [Itelmens, ecology, fish, traditional resource use, sustainable development] PDF
Mamaev E.G. [Itelmens, ecology, sea mammals, traditional resource use, sustainable development] PDF
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 Russia adventure travel and cruises.
The Koryaks populated the Kamchatka and nearby coastlines, and the Itelmens lived along the Kamchatka River.
In the old Cossack settlement of Milkovo, a museum features artifacts from the life of the Cossacks who dominated the peninsula in the 18th century.
Nowadays, Milkovo’s inhabitants are called Kamchdals, a mixed race from the intermingling of Cossacks and the indigenous Itelmens.
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 German TV company completes shooting of film about Itelmens in Kamchatka - Pravda.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
German TV company completes shooting of film about Itelmens in Kamchatka
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Girls attend the annual festival Alkhalalalai, celebrated by the Itelmens (also known as the...
Girl plays the tambourine during the annual festival Alkhalalalai, celebrated by the Itelmens...
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