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The people are known as the nenety/nenaj/nenaye, which means "human". [4] In old Russian, the term Samoyed was often applied indiscriminately to different peoples of Northern Russia who speak related Uralic languages: Nenets, Nganasans, Enets, Selkups (speakers of Samoyedic languages ). Currently, the term "Samoyedic peoples" applies to the ...
The Nenets can trace their heritage back about a thousand years on the peninsula. Throughout this time, they have practiced their traditional methods of reindeer herding. In 1961, the Soviet Union collectivised the practice and established a handful of state-run farms. Herders were under fixed contracts and worked for a salary.
The Nenets people of the Siberian arctic are the guardians of a style of reindeer herding that is the last of its kind. Through a yearly migration of over a thousand kilometres, these people move ...
Aug 9, 2022 · Nenets Family. A story in the October 2017 issue documented life of the Nenets people, indigenous reindeer herders in the Russian Arctic. Here, a family plays together at a camp on the...
Five-year-old Pavlik Khudi, Nyadma’s grandson, urges his mother, Edaine, to go faster. He lives all year with his parents, making the 800-mile annual migration. But at age seven he will enter a ...
