Thu, Oct 01, 2015
Language and culture of the indigenous peoples of the North
A new series of materials about the life of the Yakutia indigenous peoples has been issued by the NEFU Center of the digital cultural heritage.
Anatoly Zhozhikov, the Head of the Center, presented the project "Preservation and development of the languages and cultures of indigenous peoples on digital media and in cyberspace" during the Cultural Forum on September 25. He also presented the new web-portal on indigenous people culture (available in Russian).
To prepare the materials, experts recorded videos and took photographs of Yukagir, Dolgan, Evens, Evenki, Chukchi peoples during specially organized expeditions to places of the indigenous peoples residence.