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Endangered Languages and Cultures of Siberia

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Forest Enets

A calm year

An true account contrasting a good year for Forest Enets reindeer herders to a bad one.

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Forest Enets

A clever dog

A true story about a dog stealing food during a fishing trip to the lake.

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The bears, the food sledge and the helicopter

A true account from a reindeer herder of his encounter with a bear family in the tundra.

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A harness-ghost

Recorded by Andrey Shluinsky and Natalya Stoynova in 2010.

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The man who wanted to speak

A true account of a trip to the other side of a nearby lake.

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A poor man uses dogs

A very short story about men and dogs.

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A stone with a hole

A folktale about a sinful man visiting the bewitched land across the Dudinka river.

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A stone with a hole 2

A folktale about a sinful man visiting the bewitched land across the Dudinka river.

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Dogs in the Tundra

A very short story about the speakers dogs and their mischief in the Tundra.

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The Evenki man

A tale about an Evenki old man travelling along the Dudinka river, where sinful place is.

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Forest Enets

Bait

A man tells a tale about putting baits in his straps.

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Bears and fishing nets

A very short account of how bears check fishing nets installed by people on the shore for food.

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Bear fat

A true story of a man, who while angling in the Sigovaja river, shot a bear and brought its fatty meat home.

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Forest Enets

Stalin’s prisoner

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A testimony about life during Stalin’s era focussing on imprisonment and prisoners’ escapes.

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The small bear cub

A very short story in which a Forest Enets speaker describes her encounter with a mischievous tiny bear cub.

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Going to school on a reindeer

A true account by a Forest Enets speaker of his childhood travels on reindeers across the Tundra to go to school.

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Hunting wild reindeer

A true account by a speaker of Forest Enets of a particular reindeer hunting day.

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Berry jam recipe

A short monologue about how to best cook berry jam.

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Chaga tea

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A Forest Enets speaker explains how to prepare Chaga tea and its medicinal values.

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Changes on the lake

A very short text in which a Forest Enets speaker details the landscape changes around her home.

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A clairvoyant

A story about a man’s friendship with a prophetic shaman.

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A clever dog

A true story about the speaker’s dog. His dog was very intelligent and understood what his master told him.

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Cooking meat

A short monologue in which a Nenets woman discusses cutting meat and fish and gives simple ways to cook them.

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Cooking fish

A short monologue in which a Nenets woman discusses cutting meat and fish and gives simple ways to cook them.

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Forest Enets

The light reindeer from the north

A very short monologue on wild reindeer from the north and their unique light colours.

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The dogs’ plague

A monologue in which a Nenets speaker remembers a time when all reindeer herders dogs got infested with the plague.

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Traces

A short monologue in which a speaker talks about leaving marks and traces.

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The black duck

A true story about two drunk friends who find a black duck but refuse to kill it to let it raise its ducklings.

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Ducks

A short monologue uttered by a lake and wondering about ducks’ whereabouts.

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Duck’s eggs

A brief monologue about duck eggs.

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Ducks move their eggs

Recorded by Andrey Shluinsky, Natalya Stoynova and Maria Ovsjannikova in 2010.

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Duck’s nest

Recorded by Andrey Shluinsky, Natalya Stoynova and Maria Ovsyannikova in 2010.

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Elizaveta saw a ghost

A life story of a woman who saw a ghost.

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Along the Yenissey river

A man tells how he and his wife were driving a sledge along the Yenissey river.

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Feeding a bird

A true story about feeding a bird.

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Fir

A man tells a story how an old man asked him to bring some fir for the sauna.

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Fire

A man speaks of making a fire outdoors.

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Fishes species

The species of fishes that live in the Yenissey river.

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Fishing and the youth

A man explains how one installs fishing nets under ice.

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Fishing nets below the ice

A man explains how one does fishing and criticizes the youth.

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Fishing with a minnow

A man tells an everyday story about fishing with a minnow.

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Fishing with a seine

A man tells a short story about fishing with a seine.

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Fish’s internal organs

While cutting a fish, a man explains the Enets names for its internal organs.

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The Fokina river

A man explains the local geography and shows where the Fokina river is.

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Funny bears

A short story about the funny bears.

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Germans’ earth-house

A man tells how the Germans from the Volga region lived in an earth-house during WW2.

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Ghost

A man tells a story of a person who saw a ghost.

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Ghost (2)

A man tells a story of a person who saw a ghost, part 2.

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Glutton

A story about a glutton.

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Glutton (2)

A story about a glutton, part 2.

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Hare snares

A man explains how hare snares are used by the Enets.

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Hare’s way

A man shows a hare’s way in the forest.

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Harness

A man explains how one should use a reindeer harness.

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Here in winter

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A man tells how he arrived to the same place in the winter.

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Hiding from a bear on a fence

A story about a man who was hiding form a bear on a fence.

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Hill

A man gives a short introduction to a nearby hill.

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How I ate ember-gooses

A story of a man who ate the ember-gooses he caught with his fishing-nets.

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How I fell through ice

A story of a man who fell through ice.

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How I made poles

A man explains how he made poles for his tent when he got married.

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How people used to bury

A man tells how people used to bury the dead according to an ancient Enets custom.

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