CONTENTS Introduction Foreword Language Groups Tribes and Dialects Order the book The Peoples of the Red Book Abazians (Abaza) Abkhaz Aguls Akhvakhs Aleuts Altaics Aliutors Andis Archis Asiatic Eskimos Bagulals Baraba Tatars Bartangs Bats Bezhtas Botlikhs Budukhs Central Asian Jews Chamalals Chukchis Chulym Tatars Crimean Jews Crimean Tatars Didos Dolgans Enets Evens Evenks Georgian Jews ...

Vikings Looking Both Ways Arctic Wildlife Crossroads/Continents Yup'ik Masks Alutiiq Dance Arctic Social Sciences Repatriation Yamal Ainu Get Plug-ins Help Printing Credits Copyright Smithsonian Institution, 2002. All rights reserved. More on this culture. The Koryak today. Credits Koryak Dancer. Dancing was an important part of Koryak social and religious life, and special costumes were ...

A Brief History of the Koryak Introduction The Koryak are an indigenous north-east Asian people living on the northern part of the Kamchatka peninsula and surrounding mainland in what is now the Russian Federation. They were conquered by Cossack pioneer-adventurers in the end of the seventeenth century and more or less incorporated into the Russian empire by the middle of the eighteenth. The ...