Dolgans

The people of the Dolgan ( dolgan. Долган / Dolgan, Тыа-кихи/Tya-kichi, Саха / Sacha; Russian Долганы / Dolgany ) is a turksprachiges indigenous people of the Russian North.

The dolganische language belongs to the northern group of the Turkic languages ​​and is closely related to the Yakut language. In the census of 2002, 7,261 people known as Dolgan, of which 5,517 lived in the Taimyr Autonomous District.

Traditionally, the Dolgan reindeer herders were predominantly, hunters and fishermen. During the era of the Soviet Union, most of them were forced to be settled down and the forced collectivization were subjected.