ISBN: 9789521045165 - awakening siberia from marginalization to self-determination: the small indigenous nations of northern russia on the eve of the millennium (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Text in English. 612 pp. Some edge wear to covers. In 1999, on the eve of the Millennium, a University of Helsinki- Russian Academy of Sciences research team conducted a survey across all of Siberia related to the aboriginal rights of some 24 different Arctic peoples - some of the most marginalized peoples in the Arctic region. Their responses bore witness to their incredible resiliency at maintaining those vestiges of their culture and livelihood as had been possible to preserve. Moreover, their testimony demonstrated a remarkable dignity in their assertions to continue to be identified as a people - a nation - as a unique national culture no matter how small and at risk. a national identity still worth upholding even as they contemplated an uncertain future.…