Storying urban indigeneity in the Russian far east: Eveny and Evenki women navigating Yakutsk, Sakha Republic

• Other Authors: Adzich, Tsatia (Author), Fondahl, Gail (Thesis advisor), de Leeuw, Sarah (Committee member), Hunt, Sarah (Committee member), (Degree granting institution)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Northern British Columbia 2019
• Subjects: Indigenous women; Indigenous women > I︠A︡kutsk (Russia); Even (Asian people); Even (Asian people) > I︠A︡kutsk (Russia); Evenki (Asian people); Evenki (Asian people) > I︠A︡kutsk (Russia); Evenki; Sakha Republic; Yakutia; Yakutsk
• Online Access: https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A59018; https://doi.org/10.24124/2019/59018

Federal laws in the Russian Federation set out restrictive criteria for Indigenous peoples to be recognized politically, socially, and culturally as Indigenous Small Numbered Peoples of the north (KMNS). These criteria emphasize “traditionality,” a strategic tactic equating indigeneity with rural landscapes and thus discounting urban Indigenous individuals and communities as modern political and self-determining subjects. Stories from Indigenous women living in Yakutsk, the capital city of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) challenge these narratives by reconstituting the urban landscape from an Indigenous perspective. The challenges emanating from urban landscapes, and relationships integral to navigating these challenges, are examined in this thesis from a critical Indigenous feminist geographical framework, honouring and celebrating the numerous manifestations of urban indigeneity entangled throughout Yakutsk. russian federation indigenous peoples KMNS yakutsk sakha republic