Indigenous Russians
41 so called tribes were recognized by russian law in the year 2000 as a minor indigenous people of russia.
Indigenous russians. Indigenous russia refers to early tribes from the far north central and southern siberia and the far east who live in the same territories and keep the same way of life and traditions over centuries. As of 2010 these constituted about 20 of the population. The period lists are organized by the official classifications based on the number of people in each group and their location. The mission of aborigen forum is to protect and realize indigenous peoples rights by tracking and analyzing legislation monitoring the state of land rights national and international partnerships and.
Russia is a vast country covering a massive geographical area from east to west it covers 11 time zones and is the largest country in the world. Since 2002 the population of 24 of the russian indigenous groups has declined with only 10 increasing in membership. Including the russian far east the population of siberia is around 33 million people. The indigenous peoples of russia also face many threats to their traditional cultures.
For example today only 10 of siberia s tribal people live a nomadic or semi nomadic lifestyle compared to 70 about 30 years ago. Aborigen forum is an informal network of 42 independent experts activists leaders and indigenous organizations from 21 regions the russian arctic siberia and the far east. The population of russia is 147 million which makes it the 9 th largest populated country in the world.