A report on Ainu people
The Ainu are the indigenous people of the lands surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, including Hokkaido Island, Northeast Honshu Island, Sakhalin Island, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula and Khabarovsk Krai, before the arrival of the Yamato Japanese and Russians.
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Matagi
0 linksKnown for the Akita dogs.
Known for the Akita dogs.
Documented as a specialised group from the medieval period onwards, the Matagi continue to hunt deer and bear in the present day, and their culture has much in common with the bear worship of the Ainu people.
Nibutani
1 linksDistrict in the town of Biratori in Hokkaidō, Japan.
District in the town of Biratori in Hokkaidō, Japan.
A particularly large proportion of the population of the district is of the indigenous Ainu ethnicity.
Shigeru Kayano
2 linksShigeru Kayano was one of the last native speakers of the Ainu language and a leading figure in the Ainu ethnic movement in Japan.
Ulch people
6 linksIndigenous people of the Russian Far East, who speak a Tungusic language known as Ulch.
Indigenous people of the Russian Far East, who speak a Tungusic language known as Ulch.
Their religion bears similarities to the religion of the Nivkh people and Ainu people.
Chukchi people
1 linksIndigenous people inhabiting now only the Chukchi Peninsula, the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within the Russian Federation.
Indigenous people inhabiting now only the Chukchi Peninsula, the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within the Russian Federation.
According to recent genomic research, the Chukchi are the closest Asiatic relatives of the indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as of the Ainu people.
East Asian people
1 linksEast Asian people (East Asians) are the people from East Asia, which consists of China, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea and South Korea.
East Asian people (East Asians) are the people from East Asia, which consists of China, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea and South Korea.
Other ethnic groups of East Asia include: the Ainu, Bai, Hui, Manchus, Mongols and other Mongolic peoples, Ryukyuan, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Yakuts and Zhuang.
Nurgan Regional Military Commission
3 linksChinese administrative seat established in Manchuria during the Ming dynasty, located on the banks of the Amur River, about 100 km from the sea, at Nurgan city .
Chinese administrative seat established in Manchuria during the Ming dynasty, located on the banks of the Amur River, about 100 km from the sea, at Nurgan city .
Ming Chinese outposts in Sakhalin and the Amur river area received animal skin tribute from Ainu on Sakhalin, Uilta and Nivkh in the 15th century after the Tyr based Yongning Temple was set up along with the Nurkan (Nurgan) outposts by the Yongle emperor in 1409.
Haplogroup N (mtDNA)
3 linksHuman mitochondrial DNA clade.
Human mitochondrial DNA clade.
Haplogroup Y – found especially among Nivkhs, Ulchs, Nanais, Negidals, Ainus, and the population of Nias Island, with a moderate frequency among other Tungusic peoples, Koreans, Mongols, Koryaks, Itelmens, Chinese, Japanese, Tajiks, Island Southeast Asians (including Taiwanese aborigines), and some Turkic peoples [TMRCA 24,576.4 ± 7,083.2 ybp; CI=95% ]
Satsumon culture
1 linksThe Satsumon culture (擦文文化) is a post-Jōmon, partially agricultural, archeological culture of northern Honshu and southern Hokkaido (700–1200 CE) that has been identified as the Emishi, as a Japanese-Emishi mixed culture, as the incipient modern Ainu, or with all three synonymously.
Itelmens
0 linksIndigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.
Indigenous ethnic group of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia.
Native peoples of Kamchatka (Itelmen, Ainu, Koryaks and Chuvans), collectively referred to as Kamchadals, had a substantial hunter-gatherer and fishing society with up to fifty thousand natives inhabiting the peninsula before they were decimated by the Cossack conquest in the 18th century.