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  The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
The language of the Khants is one of the Finno-Ugric languages, comprising together with the Mansi and Hungarian languages the Ugric language group, and together with the Mansi language the Ob-Ugric subgroup.
It is known that in the 16th century the territory in the middle reaches of the River Ob belonged to the Samar (hence the name of the settlement Samarovo, the present Khanty-Mansiysk), the lands of the lower Ob belonged to the Alach, and the Surgut region to the Partak and Halanok.
By attacking the traditions of the people the new ideology incited the persecution of shamans and the destruction of sacred groves and burial grounds.
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/khants.shtml   (0 words)

  
 Khant peoples - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Khants (obsolete: Yugra, Ostyaks) are an endangered ethnic group calling themself Khanti, Khande, Kantek (Khanty), living in the autonomous region Khantia-Mansia in Russian Federation, together with Mansi peoples.
In Khantia-Mansia, the Khant and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian.
The Khanty are one of the few indigenous minorities of Siberia with an autonomy in the form of an okrug (autonomous district).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Khant   (0 words)

  
 The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
As a proportion of the total population, the number of the Mansis has decreased: in 1938 the percentage of the Mansis in the population of their district was 6.2 %, in 1959 4.6 %, in 1970 2.5 %, in 1979 1.1 %, and in 1989 only 0.6 %.
Khant is the closest kindred language of Mansi.
The ancestors of the Ob-Ugric peoples inhabited the areas west of the Urals.
www.eki.ee /books/redbook/mansis.shtml   (0 words)

  
 III World Congress of the Finno-Ugric Peoples, Helsinki 2000
It is necessary that federal programs destined for the small aboriginal peoples, such as "Children of the North" and "Economical and social development of the aboriginal small nations of the North till the year of 2010", will cover the Vepsian population in places of their traditional residence.
It is important that we obtain, footing on the law, the extension of the rights of the Vepsian people for control of the use of the natural recourses in the territory Of their primordial residence.
Here the speech is about both an unobstructed access of the aboriginal peoples to the use of the natural resources and an obligatory participation at economical decisions in the sphere of environment and at profits from their exploitation.
www.suri.ee /kongress/kolmas/en/stroga.html   (0 words)

  
 The Alekseev Manuscript - Chapter VII: Bronze Age in Eurasia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Hurrians are an ancient non Semitic people of northern Mesopotamia, Syria, and eastern Asia Minor circa ?1500 BC and possibly identical with the Horites (the Horites are an ancient people of the biblical period prior to Abraham that inhabited the Dead Sea region of the eastern Mediterranean).
Livonian is a district in Latvia and the Veps are a Finnish people of Russia.
Bulgaro Turkic - the Bulgars Turkic people are extinct
www.drummingnet.com /alekseev/ChapterVII.html   (0 words)

  
 HUNMAGYAR.ORG - TURAN - KHANTY-MANSI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The cultural conflict between the immigrants and the local people has added to the even so criminal influence of the newcomers: as a rule, crimes against the indigenous people and their property, as well as ecological crimes, are never punished or even registered.
The children of the peoples inhabiting the northern parts of Russia must spend the greater part of the year in boarding schools, separated from their families.
The most open-minded of the Khant intellectuals are work towards the formation of autonomous national regions at the rivers Kazym and Sosva, where the exploitation of oil and gas deposits would be banned.
www.hunmagyar.org /turan/khaman/khaman.html   (0 words)

  
 H N T   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Khants living in the area around the Pim River have surroundings which are more diverse (with woods, swamps, lakes, rivers and streams in it), Photo.
The Khants living in the region around the Kazym River said that sometimes the path through the swamp was not marked in the winter.
It is for every member of the Khant community to decide which strategy he or she chooses, and to consider other orientation strategies to be nonsensical though approved within the same region.
haldjas.folklore.ee /folklore/vol3/soros4.htm   (0 words)

  
 Finno-Ugric peoples as ethnic minorities
The Fate of the Finno-Ugric Peoples in Russia
Ugrians (Hungarians, Khant or Ostyaks, and Mansi or Voguls).
The Khant (Ostyaks) and the Mansi (Voguls) are conquered.
einst.ee /historic/society/finno_ugric_people.htm   (0 words)

  
 indigenous people of siberia
In scientific literature the Khants and Mansi are combined under the general title of "Ob' Ugrians." The Khants were known earlier as "Ostyaks", "Ob' Ostyaks", "Obdor", "Berezov" and "Surgut Ostyaks" and so on, while the Mansi were known as "Voguls".
It is derived from the combination "Khondy-Kho" (in the Khant language "man from the river Konda") and it has also been explained as meaning "Khan people" and connected with the name of the Huns.
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   (0 words)

  
 KJ 10,000 Things: A Clash of Empires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
They added that the opinions of the Ainu people must be taken into account when the two countries negotiate over the four islands off Hokkaido, the statement said, adding the Ainu had initially inhabited these islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and in Russia as the Southern Kuriles.
Among these were the Ainu peoples of Hokkaido, the Kurile Islands and the southern half of Sakhalin, who in turn had close trading relations with the societies of Northern Sakhalin, the Kamchatka Peninsula on the easternmost fringe of Siberia.
The people of far northeast Asia, however, had the particular disadvantage of living in an area which came to mark the border between two of the most powerful, and most bitterly antagonistic, states of the modern world...
www.kyotojournal.org /10,000things/073.html   (0 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia: Books: Anna Reid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Siberian natives, from the Buryat to the Khant are a diverse people from many walks of life and of different races.
Her travels were so interesting and the places and people she wrote about are so unique that the book is entralling however, she did not focus on Shaman.
Peoples possessing their own rich cultures, who have suffered under the Tsars, under Stalin, and even today face hardships.
www.amazon.ca /Shamans-Coat-Native-History-Siberia/dp/0802713998   (0 words)

  
 Project Underground: Drilling To The Ends Of The Earth: Indigenous Communities At The Edge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A focus on indigenous peoples is not intended to downplay the wide-spread and severely negative environmental, social and health impacts suffered by other communities at the hands of the petroleum industry and the systematic violation of these communities rights, from the wells of South East Asia to the refineries of Southern California.
Indigenous peoples - those societies that maintain a unique language and culture, and an ancestral relationship to a homeland, even if they have been displaced - are struggling around the globe to defend their rights and cultural identities.
Unless important measures are taken to protect indigenous peoples' rights and cultures, linguists and anthropologists estimate that only 5 to 10 percent of the some 6,000 to 7,000 languages are expected to survive the next 50 years.
www.moles.org /ProjectUnderground/motherlode/drilling/sacred.html   (0 words)

  
 YUKOS : Corporate Citizenship
Russia is home to over 100 different nationalities and indigenous peoples, among them dozens of groups of so-called Numerically-Small Peoples of the Far North.
The unique languages and cultures of these peoples form part of the rich tapestry of humanity, but unfortunately, many of them are on the verge of extinction or total assimilation.
Additionally, OAO Yuganskneftegaz, the local YUKOS operating subsidiary, has entered into no less than 45 separate agreements with Khant tribal chiefs to provide their people with regular assistance in cash and in kind - in 2002, they were in particular need of chainsaws, hunting implements, fuel and lubricants, fishing gear, televisions, and washing machines.
www.yukos.com /Corporate_citizenship/Indigenous_People_FN.asp   (0 words)

  
 TURAN - KHANTY
The Khanty are the people of Western Siberia living in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomus Okrug (11.9 thousand.
Gathering is very important in the life of the people.
The older Khanty people have retained numerous beliefs and cults.
www.hunmagyar.org /turan/khaman/khant.html   (0 words)

  
 JRL 6601 - Iraqi Oil, Putin/ Human Rights, Peace Corps, Counterintelligence, The Shaman's Coat, Glasser/ Budanov, ...
This is because people are confronted, far too often, unfortunately, with irresponsibility of the authorities at all levels.
"They are the same people, and they do not want to apologize for all their actions in the past." The first and so far only case of a Russian officer publicly charged with a crime against a Chechen civilian began when Budanov and his men rushed into the village of Tangi-Chu late one night.
People reacted [by believing] only an insane person can protest what is going on in the country." Today, Serbsky doctors are still validating the insanity of enemies of the state.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6601.htm   (0 words)

  
 Histoire Antar/FR/Introduction
In comparison with other regions of the world, the resources available to the people who live around the poles to eke out an existence may appear derisory.
On the Eurasian side, there is a much more complex mosaic of peoples: Vogul (or Mansi) and Ostyak (or Khant) in the northern valleys of the Urals and in the forests of the Ob' basin; Chukchi, Koryak, Samoyed, Yukaghir, Kamchadal, Tungus, Buryat and Yakut in the peripheral areas, etc.
Many of the stores in the Arctic region today offer all types of common foodstuffs, including food that has always been the basic diet in most hunting communities: walrus, whale and polar bear meat, as well as and particularly seal (which is eaten raw, boiled, dried or hung).
www.antarctica.org /UK/Envirn/pag/arctique/page_peuples_UK.htm   (0 words)

  
 F Newsmagazine November 2003
The history of indigenous peoples is often lost in the books written by those who gobbled up their lands.
Instead she gives us a travelogue, which is just as much about her discovery of the Khant, Buryat, Tuvans, Chuckchi, Ainu, and others in the vast territory held by the Russians, as it is a cultural document.
However, the information she brings us about the Siberian people is so rich and unblinking, we understand why she was not able to fulfill her original goal and forgive her.
www.artic.edu /webspaces/fnews/2003-nov/page20.shtml   (0 words)

  
 Journey to Other Worlds: Introduction to the Journey
The exhibit captures the spirit of the Siberian peoples in their various adaptations to the climatically harsh, arctic environments, which ranged from treeless tundra to mixed forest and tundra to the forested taiga.
Items associated with hunting and herding of reindeer; the portable dwellings; numerous objects made from reindeer furs, hides, sinew, bones, and antler; and the representations of reindeer in art and ritual objects attest to the central role of this animal in economy and beliefs.
Khant boats and fishing nets at a camp in western Siberia, 1888.
www.museum.state.il.us /exhibits/changing/journey/intro.html   (0 words)

  
 USA to intervene Siberia? - Yellowworld Forums
The newspaper of the US business told its readers about the peoples of Siberia who are dying out, and the efforts of brave linguists on restoring the disappearing language of Khant people.
They put Khant children in boarding schools and their parents in the kolkhoz (collective farms), and requested them to speak Russian.
Native peoples are made of the fragments of tiny tribes, attempts are made to restore their "genuine" language.
forums.yellowworld.org /showthread.php?t=15195   (0 words)

  
 beriks bear ceremony
All over Siberia, aboriginal peoples have variations of the bear ceremony.
Among the Amur peoples, bears are considered the Lords of the Earth.
When they are full grown they are led through the village and the men prove their bravery by getting close to them.
www.tengerism.org /beriks_bear_ceremony.html   (0 words)

  
 Khanty people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khanty (obsolete: Ostyaks) are an endangered indigenous people calling themself Khanti, Khande, Kantek (Khanty), living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with Mansi peoples.
In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian.
Some consider the Khanty's ancestors to be the prehistoric metalworking Andronovo Culture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khant_peoples   (0 words)

  
 All Empires History Forum: The Circumpolar Peoples
The Inuit people of the Arctic say their human rights are being violated by countries who refuse to sign up to international action on global warming.
Spokeswoman Sheila Watt-Cloutier said the problems faced by her people should be a warning to the rest of the world.
She said at a UN climate change meeting the issues were "of life and death".
www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9269   (0 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Shaman's Coat: A Native History of Siberia: Books: Anna Reid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Each of these ethnic groups has its own complex, often confusing history, but Reid presents a clear picture of each, describing forcefully the bloody battles in which they were subjugated, their sufferings under Russia's brutal rule, their treatment at the hands of the various colonists and the hardships of Stalinism.
On an island in the middle of a river in the middle of a forest, soldiers lie sleeping around a smoky fire.
The natives have had to deal with the Russians stealing their heritage as well as their best hunting grounds (where the native species have been decimanted to near extinction).
www.amazon.com /Shamans-Coat-Native-History-Siberia/dp/0802713998   (0 words)

  
 BNI Weekly News- December 15, 2003
Maung Kyaw Zin Khant, a protagonist of the brawl, is still missing.
The land owned by the local people is situated along the bank of Sat Rogya
The people of northern townships of Arakan province are suffering from the
www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/BNI2003-12-15.htm   (0 words)

  
 News from Former USSR
Native peoples are made up of fragments of tiny tribes and the US is attempting to restore their "genuine" language.
We are asking all people to write to the President of Russia and to the Russian Duma, protesting this move by the authorities to demolish this word-wide historical complex.
The present regime, without consulting the Soviet people, undertook this final attempt to put out of people’s minds that they are Soviet citizens, that their passports are Soviet and thus they thought to eliminate forever that there ever existed the Soviet Union and that there lived Soviet people.
www.northstarcompass.org /nsc0405/newssu.htm   (0 words)

  
 The Ultimate Khant peoples Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
The Ultimate Khant peoples Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Centre for Russian Studies — Norwegian studies of Russian peoples
Khants — Some pictures of Khants' bird and fishery traps
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Khant   (488 words)

  
 Environmental Justice and Human Rights
For those of you in the Denver area, the Boulder Progressive Coalition is holding a big pre-Tribunal and Peoples' Summit bash June 15 from 1 - 5 p.m.
The International Indigenous Peoples' Tribunal is convening in Denver prior to the Summit of the Eight.
The 27 principles proclaimed in the UNCED Declaration on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro -- June 3-14, 1992) and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples (Algiers -- July 4, 1996) are the primary baselines by which each G-7 member country and Russia will be evaluated by the tribunal.
www.ee.upenn.edu /~rabii/toes/Tribunal.html   (0 words)

  
 Hard a port(al)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Nike developed in the United States where the population is mixed from the people from all over the world such Western, Eastern, Japanese, African and many more.
Different kind of ethnics from all over the world helps Nike to build the different kinds of product lines which are based on individual culture.
Nike has to consider the technology that the country has, if the average person does not have a television this will dramatically change their marketing strategy.
homepages.wmich.edu /~k3nwewin/bus270.html   (0 words)

  
 Ariste Centre
The number Uralic indigenous students from the Finno-Ugric and Samoyed areas (of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Latvia) studying in the universities of Estonia is nearly one hundred.
In the universities located in the South of Estonia (the University of Tartu, the Estonian Agricultural University and the Viljandi College of Culture), training is given to 26 Mari, 3 Erzya and Moksha, 22 Udmurt, 12 Komi, 1 Khant, 1 Ingrian Finnish, 3 Karelian, 2 Vepsian and 2 Livonian students.
Vita Studiosi is edited and published under the supervision of Vasli Nikolaev with the assistance of the Ariste Centre.
www.ut.ee /Ural/ariste/indexen.html   (0 words)

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