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Reindeer herding is conducted by individuals within some kind of cooperation, in forms such as families, districts, Sámi and Yakut villages and sovkhozy (collective farms). A person who conducts reindeer herding is called a reindeer herder and approximately 100,000 people [2] are engaged in reindeer herding today around the circumpolar North.
The Taimyr reindeer herd, a migrating tundra reindeer (R.t. sibiricus), is the largest reindeer herd in the world. [ 15 ] [ 17 ] In the 1950s there were 110,000. [ 15 ] In 2000 the herd increased to 1,000,000 but by 2006, there were 700,000 animals, [ 15 ] [ 17 ] and 600,000 by 2016. [ 18 ]
Reindeer in Siberian shamanism reflect the cultural, as well as the economic, relationship between the native peoples of Siberia, a region of Northern Asia, and the reindeer that live there. It involves the nomadic reindeer herders, those that hunt wild reindeer and those who maintain domesticated ones.
1,000 miles northeast of the capital Kremlin politics and the six-lane motorways of Moscow may feel a world away in the Nenets Autonomous Region.
Siberian reindeer owners also use the reindeer to ride on (Siberian reindeer are larger than their Scandinavian relatives). For breeders, a single owner may own hundreds or even thousands of animals. The numbers of Russian and Scandinavian reindeer herders have been drastically reduced since 1990.
Reindeer Herders Day is a daylong celebration of the animals and the local culture. The activities include races and craftspeople selling their goods. Russia's arctic celebrates Reindeer Herders Day
A chum (/ tʃ uː m /) is a temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic (Nenets, Nganasans, Enets, Khanty, Mansi, Komi, Selkups) reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia, Russia. The Evenks, Tungusic peoples living in Russia, Mongolia and China also use chums, as do the Yeniseian-speaking Ket people. [1]
And, in the Swedish Lapland highlands by the Torne, a Sami couple has been taming and herding reindeer for 30 years. Reindeer frequently roam the grounds. Examples like these are plentiful. Over 2 ...