Oroks

The Oroken, proper name Ulta or Uilta (Japaneseウィルタ), are a small Tungusic people living in Russia. You may not Khabarovsk and the North Tungusic Oroqen in China to be confused with the Orotschen in the region. Traditionally, they were reindeer nomads who lived by fishing and hunting. In 1995 there were still about 250 to 300 Oroken, but speak only 30 to 80 people Orok, a south- Tungusic language. The word means Uilta in Orok " man who lives with the reindeer ."

As a result, signed on September 5, 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the Russo- Japanese War, the settlement area of ​​Oroken, Sakhalin Island, Russia and Japan was divided. During the Second World War, fought some of the Oroken in the counterintelligence of the Japanese army; many died in the border area between Japan and the Soviet Union. After the war, many Oroken who had collaborated with the Japanese, were sent to forced labor in a labor camp in Siberia. After her release, succeeded to some of them, to resettle after Hokkaidō. Their descendants live there today still among the Ainu, who had completely left Sakhalin because they were citizens of Japan. The vast majority of the population remained orokischen but on Sakhalin, because the Japanese government had at that time classified as "Native American ", whose civil rights were tied to the city. Since the territory ( South Sakhalin ) now part of the Soviet Union, so went out to international law and its binding to Japan.