Evens

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The Evens are an Indigenous Tungusic-speaking people of northeastern Siberia, traditionally known for reindeer herding, hunting, and a nomadic lifestyle in the Russian Far East.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Tungusic people
ethnic group
affectedBy sedentarization policies in the Soviet period
alternativeName Lamut NERFINISHED
country Russia
culturalElement animistic beliefs
oral epic tradition
shamanic rituals
culturalRegion Russian Far East NERFINISHED
Siberia NERFINISHED
economicActivity commercial hunting
fishing for subsistence
reindeer breeding
ethnonym Even NERFINISHED
historicalInteraction Russian Empire NERFINISHED
historicalProcess Soviet collectivization
languageFamily Tungusic languages
languageStatus minority language in Russia
legalStatus Indigenous people of the Russian North
populationStatus small-numbered people
primaryLanguage Even language NERFINISHED
recognizedAs Indigenous small-numbered people of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation
regionType Arctic and subarctic
relatedEthnicGroup Evenks NERFINISHED
Negidals NERFINISHED
Orochs NERFINISHED
Udege NERFINISHED
religion Russian Orthodoxy NERFINISHED
shamanism
traditionalClothingMaterial reindeer hide
traditionalEconomy fishing
fur trapping
hunting
reindeer herding
traditionalHousing chum
yaranga
traditionalLifestyle nomadic
traditionalRegion northeastern Siberia NERFINISHED
traditionalSubsistence taiga hunting
tundra reindeer pastoralism
traditionalTerritory Chukotka Autonomous Okrug NERFINISHED
Kamchatka Krai NERFINISHED
Khabarovsk Krai NERFINISHED
Magadan Oblast NERFINISHED
Russian Far East NERFINISHED
Yakutia NERFINISHED
traditionalTransport reindeer sled
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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