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Nenets, the people of the Yamal are Nenets reindeer herders. They have been known to live in this region prehistorically and historically. There are 7,500 Nenets people living in the Yamal Peninsula today. Their total population in the four autonomous Okrugs, (Yamal-Nenetsky, Nenetsky, Taymyrsky, and Khanty-Mansiysky), is approximately 35,000. They are assumed to have lived in this region for the last one thousand years as reindeer herdsmen and have been pastorialists since the 17th or 18th Century. One would presume that these people had been acculturated during the last seventy five years of Soviet rule, but, in fact, the Yamal Nenets have maintained their traditional way of life. They still travel by sled and reindeer; live in teepees or as the Russian call them "chum", or in Nenets "mya"; live off the land; and still worship their own deities. It was interesting to learn that they have maintained their lifeways despite all of the changes occurring with minority peoples throughout the world today.

Sven Haakanson

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This site Smithsonian Institute give a good description of Reindeer and Caribou the difference.

This Dartmouth College site goes into great detail, actual reindeer and caribou management.

Another good site about reindeer in Northern Scandinavia and Russia gives a short description of Sami and reindeer.

It is no picnic out here check out story Nenets natives

Best link Information on Siberia, Russia, Friends and Partners Organization

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