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3. Similar demographic transitions were also experienced in other northern regions such as
Khanty Mansiysk in western Siberia (see Wilson 2001).
4. An ostrog is a stockade town that served as a colonial outpost in Siberia, the Russian Far East
and Russian America during the Tsarist period.
5. The Association of Indigenous Peoples of Chukotka just celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2015
(see Kopylova 2015).
6. Authority over lands protected for the traditional use of indigenous peoples is shared between
the federal and regional governments. Often federal and regional statutes disagree or are in
conflict. While the laws On Obshinas and On TTUNs were created to give indigenous peoples
free and hereditary use and transfer of traditional lands, the Forest Code of the Russian
Federation excludes indigenous peoples from holding land tenure rights (Laletin 2012).
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