Assimilationist policies are discussed in Nikolai Vakhtin's "Native Peoples
of the Russian Far North," London, Minority Rights Group, 1992, and less so
in James Forsyth's "A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North
Asian Colony 1581 - 1990, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1992. There was also a comparative analysis of Canadian and Russian
assimilations policies in the north in The Canadian Journal of Native
Studies in the mid-1990's but I don't have access to the magazine stack at
the moment. If it's crucial, let me know and I'll look it up later today.
R. Chrisjohn
At 07:07 PM 7/17/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I encountered the following query on another listserv and knowing that
>there are some people on xmca who are knowledgeable about russian
>affairs/history etc., I'm reposting it here. It's a question I'm also
>interested in since I do know that in the early years of the revolution,
>quite a bit of ethnography was done among the Siberian hunter/gatherer groups.
>
>
>"Shortly after 1917, the Yupik and Chukchi peoples, who live in the Chukotka
>region, were given equal rights and allowed to maintain their language,
>culture, and lifestyle under the new Soviet Union -- however, this was
>short-lived and around 20-30 years later the Soviet's started to "force" the
>indigenous people to make the transition from so-labeled primitive society
>to a socialist one -- live in houses, learn Russian, socialism, work in/on
>collective farms, etc. I think the Soviet policy was called "red tents."
>Details on these policies are limited -- so, if any one knows of works
>examining the Soviet's policies directed at the Yupik and Chukchi during
>this time -- They would be greatly appreciated."
>
>
>
>Paul H. Dillon
>Director of Intersegmental Research
>IPASS/LACCD
>
> "It seems ridiculous to me to attempt to study society as a mere
> observer. He who wishes only to observe will observe nothing, for as he
> is useless in actual work and a nuisance in recreations, he is admitted
> to neither. We observe the actions of others only to the extent to which
> we ourselves act." - Jean Jacque Rousseau
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