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Association To Save Yugra
The Association to Save Yugra (or Save Yugra, russian: Спасение Югры, Spaseniye Yugry) is an indigenous-rights organisation of the Khanty people, Khanty, Mansi people, Mansi and Nenets people, Ugrian and Samoyedic peoples, Samoyedic nomadic cultures of Russian Siberia. The organisation was founded in 1989 to protect their traditional lands against extractivism, extractive industries such as oil, gas, and logging. The organisation held its first congress in August 1989, and took a stance opposing logging in their forests. The organisation is named for Yugra, the traditional homeland of the Finno-Ugric peoples, in what is now Northern Russia. See also *Yamal to Its Descendants References {{reflist Khanty Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Finno-Ugric peoples Mansi Nenets people Indigenous rights organizations in Asia Indigenous rights organizations in Europe Politics of Siberia Human rights organizations based in Russia Indigenous peoples of North Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khanty People
The Khanty (Khanty: ханти, ''hanti''), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (russian: остяки) are a Ugric indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, together with the Mansi. In the autonomous okrug, the Khanty and Mansi languages are given co-official status with Russian. In the 2010 Census, 30,943 persons identified themselves as Khanty. Of those, 26,694 were resident in Tyumen Oblast, of whom 17,128 were living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug and 8,760—in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. 873 were residents of neighbouring Tomsk Oblast, and 88 lived in the Komi Republic. Ethnonym Since the Khanty language has about 10 dialects which can be united in 3 main branches, there are several slightly different words used by these people to describe themselves: *''Khanti, Khante'' (in North) *''Khande'' (in South) *''Kantek, Kantakh'' (in East) All these words mean ''Human''. They also call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
