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unusual facts about Chukchi people



Jesup North Pacific Expedition

Waldemar Bogoras was an exiled Russian revolutionary; ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork with the Chukchi and Siberian Yupik peoples of the western side of the Bering Strait.

Overland Relief Expedition

From 1892 to 1906, cutters would cruise up the Siberian coast and barter with Chukchi for reindeer, which were then transported to a station at Port Clarence, near Nome, Alaska.

Vayegi

Local legend tell how a hill near the village was the scene of a battle between the Chukchi and the Koryak.


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