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The Yukaghir of the Kolyma River basin of Siberia are divided into two groups traditionally reliant on contrasting ecologies and livelihoods: those on the tundra of the northern or Lower Kolyma who relied on reindeer herding; and those in the taiga of the southern or Upper Kolyma who were primarily hunter-gatherers. Both also engaged in fishing and the fur trade. They revered shamans, and had a reciprocal relationship with game to the extent that hunter and prey could exchange consciousness. By the end of the twentieth century the territory of the Yukaghir had been greatly reduced and they suffered rapid decline in population and their traditional way of life because of incursion and assimilation by Yakuts, Chukchee, Evens, and Russians.

The Yukaghir

The decline of the Yukagirs

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Nine spirits

The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus

The Yukagirs

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Spirits as 'ready to hand'

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Forde, Cyril Daryll	The Yukaghir	1963
Graburn, Nelson H. H.	The decline of the Yukagirs	1973
Gurvich, Innokenti S.	Culture Summary	2020
Ivanov, Anton M.	Nine spirits	1996
Jochelson, Waldemar	The Yukaghir and the Yukaghirized Tungus	1975
Stepanova, M. V.	The Yukagirs	1964
Willerslev, Rane	Not animal, not NOT-animal	2004
Willerslev, Rane	Spirits as 'ready to hand'	2004

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