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Mar 4, 2020 · The Nenets call themselves "the children of the reindeer." They number fewer than 50,000. In Russia's hostile tundra conditions, their lives are much as they were hundreds of years ago.
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- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
The Nenets ( Nenets: ненэй ненэче, romanized: nenəj nenəče; Russian: ненцы, romanized : nentsy ), also known as Samoyeds (deprecated term), are a Samoyedic ethnic group native to Arctic Russia, Russian Far North.
Oct 17, 2016 · The Daily life of Nenets Indigenous women in the Siberian Arctic. The Nenets people are nomadic reindeer herders in North-West Siberia. They heavily depend on their herds for food, clothes ...
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- Greenpeace International
The Nenets (Nenets: ненэй ненэче, Russian: ненцы), also known as Samoyeds, are an indigenous people in northern arctic Russia. According to the latest census...
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- Audiopedia
Aug 3, 2018 · Discover the Nenets one of Russia's indigenous people native to the far north above the Arctic Circle. Learn about their traditional customs and ways of...
- Zita Whalley
The proto-Samoyeds migrated to the Arctic in the first millenium BC from the Altai-Sayan region near Mongolia. There, they interbred with a short-statured aboriginal Arctic people, and became the Nenets. Those short-statured aboriginal people live on today in Nenets legends as Sihirtia.
The Nenets, an indigenous and small-numbered people of the Russian North, are culturally and linguistically divided into two distinct communities: the Tundra Nenets and the Forest Nenets.