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The origins of the Äynu people are disputed. Some historians theorize that the ancestors of the Äynu were an Iranian-related nomadic people who came from Persia several hundred years ago or more, [6] while others conclude that the Persian vocabulary of the Äynu language is a result of Iranian languages being once the major trade languages of the region or Persian traders intermarrying with ...
On January 21, 2012, the Ainu Party (アイヌ民族党, Ainu minzoku tō) was founded [176] after a group of Ainu activists in Hokkaidō announced the formation of a political party for the Ainu on October 30, 2011. The Ainu Association of Hokkaidō reported that Kayano Shiro, the son of the former Ainu leader Kayano Shigeru, would head the party.
Even at such an advanced age, she was still contributing to the promotion of Ainu culture. [2] Araida died in November 2011, aged 94. [3] The Ainu Museum described her as a "great contributor to the promotion of Ainu culture". [6] Her younger sister Fuyuko Yoshimura also became an Ainu culture promoter. [7]
Ainu people, an East Asian ethnic group of Japan and the Russian Far East Ainu languages, a family of languages Ainu language of Hokkaido; Kuril Ainu language, extinct language of the Kuril Islands; Sakhalin Ainu language, extinct language from the island of Sakhalin; Ainu music; Ainu cuisine; Ainu (Middle-earth), spirit in J. R. R. Tolkien's ...
Ainu culture is the culture of the Ainu people, from around the 13th century (late Kamakura period) to the present.Today, most Ainu people live a life superficially similar to that of mainstream Japanese people, partly due to cultural assimilation.
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In modern Hokkaido, the population density of the Ainu people is high in the Iburi and Hidaka regions, and there is a theory that this may be because the Sumunkur were more friendly to the Matsumae domain than the Menasunkur Ainu and Ishikari Ainu (another subgroup located to the north of the Sumunkur Ainu). [4]
Hasinaw-uk-kamuy is a deity of great importance to the Ainu, who historically subsisted largely on hunting, fishing, and gathering. She was born from the fire-producing drill, and is sometimes said to be the sister of Kamuy-huci, the hearth goddess, or of Shiramba Kamuy, god of vegetation.