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The kerker shown above, was used ...
What is to protect the Chukchi in battle?
They were made out of the fur of reindeers, foxes, wolves, dogs, wolverines, and seal hides. Women wore kerkers, while men wore shirts and trousers.
100
Shamans were the tribal priest, and were believed to have ...
What is supernatural powers?
Shaman held earth like superpowers used for the greater good to protect the Chukchi people. In one Chukchi folktale, several shamans and the storyteller are traveling on the ocean when their boat develops a leak. When they approach land, he tells the seaweed-spirits to depart; the leak re-appears, and he challenges the other shamans to stop it. Their powers are weaker than his, they are unsuccessful, and they drown.
100
Nomadic ways of living were intentionally sabotaged ...
What is means of production were appropriated by the government
Land, reindeer, and all other means of production were appropriated by the government
100
The country that tried to politically take over the area was ...
What is the Soviet Union?
During their period of the Mongols, or Khanates, the Russians tried to expand their territory in order to provide them more protection from them.
100
The geographic location Chukchi people live ...
What is Russia?
200
The thing that made Chukchi holidays & festivals important was ...
What is the traditional sacrifices and spirits
The Chukchi depended upon sacrifices and spirits for their survival. These sacrifices took place within the fall for their reindeer-herding Chukchi and during the summer for the coastal Chukchi.
200
The Chukchi speak the _____ languages.
What is Chukchi and Russian?
The Chukchi language is part of the “Paleo-Asiatic” group, but it does have some similarities to the Koryak. The development of a written alphabet for the Chukchi language , led to a rapid increase in literacy and social changes.
200
Sovietization twisted knowledge to senselessnes …
What is the entry of Soviet governments?
- These developments, their nature, and their "place of application" killed the hearts of traditional culture and caused the deep maladaptation of the northern ethnic societies of Russia
200
The Soviet Union challenged the Chukchi’s economy, and tried to have them switch to a ______ economy.
What is communist?
The Chukchi were willing to talk to the Soviets, but as soon as the topic changed to combining their reindeer herds with others they stopped listening. The Chukchi also didn’t believe the Soviets when they talked about the benefits of communism because it was so radically different from what they were used to. Another thing that made them mistrustful of them was that they knew the influenza was killing their children, due to them having no immunity to it from previous exposure.
200
All the languages the Chukchi are known to speak are ...
What is Russian and Chukchi?
The Chukchi language belongs to the Paleoasiatic language family. However, it is similar to the Koryak family. Literacy and social changes began to increase with the development of the written alphabet.
300
The importance of the engravings ...
What is to showcase their stories in order to preserve their history?
The engravings are intricately carved, and have now become a very popular form of art for the Chukchi people. They were first discovered along the Pegtymel River. They now also use the bone and tusks to create animal statues and household items, like knives.
300
Myths in Chukchi folklore focused on ...
What is the creation of the earth, moon, sun, and stars?
They also had folklore that focused on tales about animals; anecdotes and jokes about foolish people; stories about evil spirits that are responsible for disease and other misfortunes.
300
Children were taught how to tame their “wildness” and instill socialist values by being …
What is coercively detached from their parents and placed in boarding schools?
This ruined families because their children where taken from them. They also lost parts of their culture because the children were not able to be taught it at the boarding schools.
300
The _______ tried to convert as many Chukchi to their religion when they first came to the Chukotka peninsula.
What is Russian Eastern Orthodox missionaries?
During the Russian period of expanision, it wasn't just soldiers who went. Missionaries also traveled to the Chukotka peninsula because they believed it was their duty to convert as many people as possible to their faith.
300
Over time, two different ways of life developed. They are known as ______ and _______?
What is reindeer herding (chavchyvat) and the culture of sea mammal hunting (angkal’yt)?
400
During the Chukchi rituals _____ happens.
What is Chukchi shamans fall into trances to communicate with spirits and allow the spirits to speak through them, predict the future & cast spells?
Sometimes with the help of hallucinogenic mushrooms
400
The significance of the Chukchi’s folk stories was never to divide man from nature instead to emphasize …
What is the reliance of people and nature?
This played a huge role in the Chukchi’s generational upbringing.
400
Chukchi peoples’s were forced to change within society to switch from a ______ to a _________.
What is a “primitive-communial” society to a socialist society?
People were stripped of their rights to self-government and self-realization
400
Russian weaponry, like _____, taught the Chukchi a new way to hunt.
What is guns?
The Russians first introduced the Chuckchi's to guns on July 14, 1728. They still use them today in their whale hunting. Before they tried to strike the whales with a harpoon after speaking up behind them.
400
The Chukchi population in the region is now _______ percent of the total population on the Chukotka peninsula.
What is 20%?
The Soviet-era immigration of Russians, Ukrainians, and other Soviet peoples to the Chukotka peninsula made it so the Chukchi's and other Indigenous Peoples populations made up less than 20 percent of the region's population.
500
Carving, like the one shown above, were made out of ...
What is walrus tusks?
Carving was one of the Chukchi's few artistic outlets. It is made out of walrus tusks to help them last longer. They depicted stories from their folklore.
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Ԓыгъоравэтԓьэн (Lyg'oravetl'en) stands for _____ in Chukchi.
What is the real people?
Chukchi alphabet
500
A heavy mining industry was founded, with a massive surge of workers from other parts of the USSR, causing the Chukcki to become…
What is an ethnic minority and second class citizens?
- Local shamans were killed or sent to labour camps, the old Chukchi views in spirits and forces of nature were disregarded, and the tradition of whale hunting and reindeer breeding shifted to collective farms.
500
In 1924, a group of Bolshevik faithful—many of them ethnographers experienced with “backward peoples”—formed the Committee of the North. Their mission was to...
What convert people to the Bolshevik's way of thinking?
The committee sent “missionaries of the new culture and the new Soviet state,” as one member put it, “ready to take to the North the burning fire of their enthusiasm born of the Revolution.”
500
The main belief of the Chukchi religion is ...
What is invisible spirits inhabit the Earth?
Was one of their few artistic outlets. It is made out of walrus tusks to help them