Chuvan

E111385

The Chuvan are a small Indigenous Siberian people traditionally inhabiting parts of northeastern Russia, with a culture shaped by reindeer herding, hunting, and Arctic riverine environments.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Chuvans 2
Chuvan canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
ethnic group
climateZone Arctic
linked to: Arctic region

subarctic
continent Asia
country Russia
culturalArea Circumpolar North
linked to: Far North
economicActivity fur hunting
reindeer pastoralism
river fishing
ethnicMinorityStatus numerically small people of the North in Russia
ethnonym Chuvans
linked to: Chuvan
historicalLifestyle taiga and tundra hunters
housingType portable dwellings
languageFamily Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages
mobilityPattern seasonal migration
populationSize small Indigenous group
recognizedAsIndigenousPeopleOf Russian Federation
linked to: Russia
region Siberia
relatedTo other Indigenous peoples of northeastern Siberia
traditionalEnvironment Arctic riverine environments
traditionalLivelihood semi-nomadic herding
traditionalRegion Arctic Siberia
linked to: Eastern Siberia

northeastern Russia
traditionalReligion animism
shamanism
traditionalSubsistence fishing
hunting
reindeer herding
usesAnimal reindeer

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Chuvan ethnonym Chuvans
linked to: Chuvan
Indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East ethnicGroup Chuvans
linked to: Chuvan