Russian old-settlers
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The old-settlers (
Russian America (under the name "Russian Creoles") in the 11th – 18th centuries and their descendants.[1][2][3] Among them, interethnic marriages, borrowing words from local languages and adopting the culture of Indigenous peoples
were practiced.
A principal part of them were Old Believers at least prior to the rise of the Soviet Union.
Subgroups
- Alaska Nativeancestry.
- Chaldons – Creoles of Russians and native Siberians;
- Kamchadals – descendants of the native Kamchatkanpeoples who assimilated with the Russians;
- Kamenschiks – Old Believers in Southern Siberia;
- Karyms and Gurans, – métises of mixing Russians with Buryats and Evenks in Buryatia and Transbaikalia;
- Markovtsy – métises of mixing Russians and Chuvans in Chukotka;
- Pokhodchane or Kolymans – Russians in Arctic Sakha;
- Russkoust'intsy or Indigirschiks – métises of mixing Russians with Yukaghirs, Sakha and Evens in Arctic Sakha;
- Tundra Peasants – métises of mixing Russians with Evenks and Sakha on Taymyr;
- Yakutians or Lena Peasants – métises of mixing Russians with Sakha.
References
- ^ "Старожилы" [Starozhily (Old-Timers)]. Большая российская энциклопедия [ Great Russian Encyclopedia Online] (in Russian). 2017. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
- ^ Schweitzer, Peter; Vakhtin, Nikolai; Golovko, Evgeniy (2005). "The Difficulty of Being Oneself: Identity Politics of "Old-Settler" Communities in Northeastern Siberia" (PDF). In Erich Kasten (ed.). Rebuilding Identities. Pathways to Reformin Post-Soviet Siberia. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag. pp. 135–151 – via Siberian-studies.org.
- ^ Wixman. Peoples of the USSR, p. 180.