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  Samoyedes - AOL Research & Learn
Traditionally they hunted reindeer and held shamans in high repute.
The Samoyede language, included in the Uralic family, is distantly related to Finno-Ugric.
The Samoyedes today live mainly by raising reindeer and fishing.
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 AllRefer.com - Samoyedes (Peoples (except New World)) - Encyclopedia
Samoyedes or Samoyeds[both: sam´uyedz´´] Pronunciation Key, partly nomadic, partly settled agricultural tribes found in N Siberia and the Taimyr Peninsula, especially in the basin of the Ob and Yenisei rivers.
The Samoyede language, included in the Uralic family, is distantly related to Finno-Ugric.
The Samoyedes today live mainly by raising reindeer and fishing.
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 Nenets people -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Of the S Samoyedes, who are completely Tatarized, the Beltirs live by agriculture and cattle-breeding in the (Click link for more info and facts about Abakan) Abakan steppe.
One portion of the tribe emigrated to (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China and was there exterminated; the remainder have disappeared among the Tuba Tatars and the Soyotes.
The Samoyedes on the Ob in (Click link for more info and facts about Tomsk) Tomsk may number about 1000; they have adopted the Russian manner of life, but have difficulty in carrying on agriculture, and are a poverty-stricken population with little prospect of holding their own.
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 SAMOYEDES - Online Information article about SAMOYEDES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Ostiaks know them under the names of Orghoy, or Workho, both of which recall the Ugrians; the name of Hui is also in use among the Ostiaks, and that of Yaron among the Syrgenians.
It is probable that formerly the Samoyedes occupied the Altai mountains, whence they were driven N. by Turco-Tatars.
The exact number of the Ostiak Samoyedes is not known; the Tavghi Samoyedes may number about 10oo, and the Yuraks, mixed with the former, are estimated at 6000 in Obdorsk (about 15o settled), 5000 in See also:
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 Encyclopedia: Samoyedes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Nenetses are of Samoyedic peoples and related to Yenets people, Selkup people and Nganasan people.
The so-called Samoyedes inhabiting the S of the governments of Tomsk and Yeniseisk have been much under Tatar influence and appear to be of a different stock; their sub-groups are the Kamasin Tatars, the Kaibals, the Mators (aka "Motors"), the Beltirs, the Karagasses and the Samoyedes of the middle Ob.
Thus, the Kaibals left the Sayan mountains and took possession of the Abakan steppe (Minusinsk region), abandoned by the Kirghizes, in the earlier years of last century, and in Northeast Russia the Zyrians (Komi) are still driving the Samoyedes farther N., towards the Arctic coast.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Samoyedes @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Samoyedes @ HighBeam Research
SAMOYEDES [Samoyedes] or Samoyeds, partly nomadic, partly settled agricultural tribes found in N Siberia and the Taimyr Peninsula, especially in the basin of the Ob and Yenisei rivers.
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