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Training course "Education in the Field of Human Rights and Rights of Indigenous Peoples" (Krasnoyarsk, 14 September – 15 October 2007)

The second training course "Education in the Field of Human Rights and Rights of Indigenous Peoples” for Taimyr small indigenous peoples was held from 14 September to 15 October 2007. Interns represented various territories of Taimyr municipal region. They were experienced in preservation and protection of rights of Taimyr small indigenous peoples, their traditional way of life, trades and economic activities:
1. Maria Popova, Dolgan. "Taimyr College", laboratory assistant.
2. Yelena Sablina, Dolgan. Khatanga central regional hospital, assistant nurse.
3. Yevgeny Laptukov, Dolgan. Taimyr local history museum, head of nature department. Postgraduate of Irkutsk State Agricultural Academy.
4. Zinaida Maryasova, Dolgan. Taimyr nature reserve, head of ecological education department.
5. Maria Chardu, Dolgan. Khatanga Administration, specialist of the I category of the Rural Development Department of Khatanga Administration.
6. Anna Bettu, Dolgan. Head of Administration of Syndassko village.
7. Vadim Vengo, Nenets. "Severnaya Gavan" Ltd, fisherman, reindeer breeder.
8. Tatyana Porotova, Dolgan. Dudinka Medical School, student.
The whole training course was divided into several parts. The basic part was a legal one. The interns learned the basic state and law theory, federal and regional legislation, international laws on human rights and rights of indigenous peoples, mechanisms of rights protection, rights of indigenous peoples on traditional nature use, natural recourses, information and other rights and obligations forming a special legal status of small indigenous peoples. Interns examined regional draft laws on state support of northern reindeer breeding in Krasnoyarsk Krai and on traditional land use of northern indigenous peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai, they analyzed federal, krai and local goal-oriented programs of indigenous peoples support. Interns attended computer classes and learned Microsoft Office programs. The classes were held in the bounds of the project "Open World of Information Technology" (IDEA). The project was carried out in the framework of «Microsoft Unlimited Potential» program of "Project Harmony, Inc." non-commercial corporation and Microsoft Corporation.
During the study interns discussed problems of Taimyr indigenous peoples and the ways of their solution. As a result they issued appeals to N.A. Fokin, Member of Legislative Assembly of Krasnoyarsk Krai, I.Ye. Zhmakov, ombudsman of Krasnoyarsk Krai, and to Agency on Support of North Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai Administration. The interns' appeals would also be given to Standing Committee on the North and Northern Indigenous Peoples of Legislative Assembly of Krasnoyarsk Krai, V.S. Nechaev, chairman of Standing Committee on Education, Science, Culture and Sport of Legislative Assembly of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Member of Legislative Assembly of Krasnoyarsk Krai. On 5 October we met with I.Ye. Zhmakov, ombudsman of Krasnoyarsk Krai, and discussed the introduction of a new essential for indigenous peoples institution of authorized representative of Krasnoyarsk Krai indigenous peoples.
Some interns liked training of social competence most of all.
Classes on social projects were an important part of the training course. During the study the interns had been working on projects which were expected to fulfill in the frameworks of grant competitions (first of all, the grant program of Krasnoyarsk Krai “Social Partnership for Development”), goal-oriented programs and other possibilities for funding. The classes were held by O.A. Suvorova and M.V. Sirotina. They resulted in 6 projects.
On 15 October in Children Educational Center there was held the Public Presentation of the Projects of the Interns of Informational Legal Center of Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai, which became the final activity of the training course “Education in the Field of Human Rights and Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. For experts’ consideration the interns submitted the projects aiming to solve certain problems of indigenous peoples of Taimyr.
Intern Evgeny Laptukov submitted the project “Following the Population Census in Turukhansk”, aiming to creation of an informational methodical edition on the basis of historical records and expedition materials about the past and contemporary state of hunting, about customs and traditions of indigenous population of Taimyr, their hunting culture. Interns Yelena Sablina and Maria Popova presented the project “Flowers of Life” aiming to prevent deviacy of indigenous teenagers living in Novorybnya village of Khatanga Settlement through support of traditional arts. Vadim Vengo, the only Nenets of the group, offered the project “The New Way”, the main objective of which is to create a clan community of Nenets people of Nosok village (Karaul Settlement). Intern Maria Chardu presented a project, which sounds in the Dolgan language as “Ologkun Tuksar” (Improve the Life). The main content of the project is connected with organizing of informational law seminars and further consulting of indigenous representatives of Taimyr engaged in traditional economic activities and leading a nomadic life in Khatanga Settlement. Trainees Zinaida Maryasova and Tatyana Porotova presented the project “Save for Descendants” aiming to establish groups for children for studying of the Dolgan language in Khatanga. Anna Bettu introduced the project “Hope and Support” the aim of which is to help veterans, invalids and old people in everyday problems via a voluntary team of young people of Syndassko village. An expert of the Public Presentation of the Projects, Ludmila Aleksandrovna Vladyko (consultant of the Department of Cooperation with Public Organizations and Political Parties of the Agency of Public Relations of the Council of Administration of Krasnoyarsk Krai, member of the Council on Social Grants of Krasnoyarsk Krai), expressed her evaluation of the projects from the point of view of their matching to the requirements of the grant program of Krasnoyarsk Krai “Social Partnership for Development”. Ludmila Alexandrovna also gave valuable recommendations to the trainees for preparation of the projects in the future. Marina Khasametovna Magamedova, assistant of the Head of the Agency on Support of North Indigenous Peoples of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Administration, and expert of Public Presentation of the Projects, commented the projects on the whole and expressed recommendations to the content. Every project was accompanied with computer presentation. We must thank O.V. Razvodovskaya, director of Children Educational Center, for help in organization and backup facilities. Krasnoyarsk Center is also grateful to Agency on Support of North Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai Administration, Department of Protection of Environment and Traditional Way of Life of Taimyr Small Indigenous Peoples of Taimyr municipal region, Administration of Khatanga settlement and public organizations of Taimyr small indigenous peoples.
Krasnoyarsk Center is thankful to all the lecturers, experts, volunteers for their assistance to the event and the training course on social projects. They spared no time to impart interns as much knowledge essential to solve problems of preservation and development of small indigenous peoples of the North as possible.
Now when the training course is over interns are to implement their projects, share their knowledge with people around them and see to resolutions of their appeals.
We wish our interns a success and hope our efforts were not vain and help them exercise their rights and obligations and they will positively influence on local communities. Krasnoyarsk Center guarantees to help interns in legal actions, appeals, implementation of projects aiming to solve problems of indigenous peoples, to proved information and news about life of indigenes and to initiate other activities aiming to protect rights and interests of small indigenous peoples of the North.
Yelena Nechushkina, Director of Informational Legal Center of Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai

MY NATION

Traditions and Customs of Taimyr People

Dolgans are the youngest nation of Siberia. They appeared in the 18th – 19th centuries on the territory of Taimyr Peninsula. The nation is the result of consolidation of a number of ethnic groups: Dolgans, Dongots, Karanto, Edyans, Yakut reindeer breeders, tundra peasants (northern Yakuts including Russian old residents), Nenets, Ents.
The term "Dolgan" was mentioned for the first time in notes of Cossacks – tax collectors – dated to 1818.
In the middle of the 18th century A.F. Middendorf, naturalist, and M.A. Kastren, linguist, had instructions to explore the tangled ethnic situation in the area between Lena and Ob during their expedition. In reports of the expedition of 1843 – 1947 Dolgans were mentioned not as the source of taxes but as a subject of ethnographical interest. In A.F. Middendorf and M.A. Kastren classifications Dolgans were designated as one of Yakut tribes under their language and facial characteristic. But they also confessed that both experts and nonexperts often ranked them with Tunguses.
In the 20th century it did not seem to be anyone who could retrace the origin of the term "Dolgans". But we have to hand it to explorers who discovered the Dolgan people and continued learning that mysterious nation.
In 1935 "Sakha", the original name of Yakuts, was recognized as the legal name of Dolgans in Taimyr Autonomous District. In 1959 the correct name "Dolgans" began to appear in official documents, press and radio. And in 1967 in "Books of Population Record" "Sakha" was changes to "Dolgan" in the space marked "nationality".
Dolgans preserved their language and original culture that is carefully guarded by older generations and is being developed by ethnic amateur talent groups. Dolgans have an ancient eventful history that still lingers in the minds of the people.
Dolgans had no written language. Only in 1973 Ogduo Aksenova, first Dolgan poetess, worked out the grounds of the Dolgan written language. Her first poetry book "Baraksan" was published in November of that year. Thus 1973 was the year of Dolgan written language and literature birth.
Prokopy Yeliseevich Yefremov, Yakut ethnographer, was of considerable assistance with publication of the book (he was the author of the opening letter and the adviser). And in addition he wrote the prologue and the endnote of "Taimyr Tales" and he was the author of "Dolgan Folklore" pubished in 2000 in Novosibirsk.
The first primer was published in 1984. The Dolgan folklore preserved its ethnic flavor thanks to it.
The indigenous peoples of the North differ greatly in their historical and cultural traditions and way of life. Though they are called the small peoples their language, material and spiritual culture are well-preserved.
Transfer of experience, principles and values of life from one generation to another, from father to son is the most important condition for cultural traditions of the nation to be preserved. One should cultivate aesthetic love for nature since early childhood, "i.e. to bring out an artist in the child before the street will bring out a user or perhaps a nature destroyer in him". In early times Dolgans took their children to hunt or fish as soon as they could walk. As soon as boys began to grow up they were given wooden rifles and taught to aim and shoot. One had only to take one look at a cradle to be convinced whether it was a boy or a girl: there was a wooden knife hanging at the side of a boy's cradle and a kamus scraper at the side of a girl's one. A girl was always beside her mother since birth. Mothers taught their daughters free and easy in the process of everyday life and not on purpose.
While adaptation to environment reindeer breeders, fishermen and hunters elaborated a complex of rules and bans that helped to use natural resources without depletion and destruction of a stable ecological system.
Ancient tribes of hunters, reindeer breeders and fishermen felt by intuition the necessity to protect nature against unfounded destruction. They invented various limitations, bans and rites. Those beliefs are preserved in folklore and traditions of the northern peoples.
Ecological traditions are an enormous layer of national culture. It went to us from the time when people sensed their direct dependence on environment and had integral conception about nature and the role of a man and his rules of behavior in it.
Dolgan people have a lot of customs, superstitions and rites connected with nature. The aim of ecologists is to bring ecological traditions of indigenous peoples together with protection of nature. Isn't Dolgan custom to share the first take beautiful? If a hunter came with the take he was to divide it among all people in the nomad camp and the best parts were given to old men and children and the part that the hunter's family got wasn't the best.
Customs, traditions, superstitions and omens, being mass habits by their psychological and social structure, are an effective means of education of positive attitude to nature.
Our northern peoples are surrounded by three largest nature reserves: Putoransky, Taimyrsky and Bolshoy Arktichesky but this by no means affected their existence and has played its positive part in some ways. Nature museums are under all the reserves but only in the museum of the Taimyrsky reserve on 13 January 1993 they founded an ethnographical department. They also opened a museum of nature and ethnography on 16 September 1993. It is no secret that the new generation knows little of our culture and local history is taught insufficiently in the schools of our settlement. In classes of ecology and local history it becomes clear that children even do not know the year of district foundation saying nothing of other subjects. And the older children are the worse situation is. Even adults gradually forget our history. Primary school children who attend the museum classes know the local history much better than senior pupils and they take an active part in various actions.
Museums are of great importance for our system of ecological education as any visitor may get acquainted with flora and fauna, culture, patriotic and nature conservation themes. During excursions, discussions and classes ecological education staff often make local examples, apply traditions and beliefs of the northern people, lifestyle of former times, traditional economic activities, local handicrafts that were at peace with environment, and mention concrete facts. They try to find old half-forgotten nature conservation traditions, especially local ones, and make them popular with the help of classes of ecology and local history, excursions and mass media.
Application of various national traditions makes classes much easier because learners don't have to rack their brains; it causes their positive response and arouses interest. These traditions are used not only to protect certain kinds of birds and animals but the nature reserve in whole.
Much attention has been paid to establishment of new nature conservation holidays in recent years. It has been observed that children get enthusiastic over an idea better when they promote it themselves. That is why we need to support children in any initiative.
Every year pupils of Novorybinsk secondary school clear out the neighboring Paga Lake and Chaikhanai Lake. They have written an article to the newspaper "Taimyr" and to Taimyrsky nature reserve where they express their surprise and shame adults," We're surprised at indifference of adults to the fortune of the future generation. Tundra is crying and moaning, lakes are decaying and becoming shallow, all living things are gradually becoming extinct because of disorder and irresponsibility. Will these lakes really turn to pools soon? Don't your hearts ache for nature?"
Successful ecological education consists of various forms and methods, constant creative search and enthusiasm. And in the places where there is a successful ecological education natural reserves become centers of social life of the local population.
Nature reserves today are front lines in protection of nature. They are that charmed islands where there should be no economic activity and where land is put at plants and animals disposal. Natural reserves serve people and their importance grows day by day and from year to year.
Zinaida Maryasova

Radiant Future of Our Posterity

The basis of our country's wealth is its natural resources and the basis of our people's health is the purity of natural environment. If we conserve the nature of our country we will provide our posterity with the radiant future. At the same time we'd like our children to know and observe traditions and customs of our nation since early childhood.
Unfortunately small indigenous peoples of the North observe less and less traditions at the present time and young people don't know them at all.
During the training in Informational Legal Center of Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai we were taught to file grant applications. Maria Popova and I had written the project "Flowers of Life". The project described problems of our disinterested youth. The main aims of the project were to reduce deviance among teenagers and to arouse interest to preservation and development of our traditional culture. The main project actions were establishment of various dancing, bead braiding and drawing circles for teenagers in Novorybnaya village (Khatanga settlement). We hope to implement our project in the near future. Children will like to display their talents attending the circles and they will participate in shows, competitions and concerts. We hope such circles will be founded in all villages of the Khatanga settlement. Any child is gifted and one should only help it to develop its talent. Children will help our nation to preserve traditions and customs when they become adults. Thereby they will provide their posterity with the radiant future.
Yelena Sablina

Revival of Traditional Nature Management in Taimyr
Before the training in Informational Legal Center of Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai in the bounds of the project "Establishment of the Network for Promotion and Protection of Social, Cultural and Economic Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation" I didn't think it was possible to alter the situation of my countrymen. After "settling and settlement" campaign, policy of liquidation of "unpromising" settlements and other violent reforms indigenous peoples of the North and the Far East were left to their own resources in severe conditions of the market economy. Yes, they trained teachers and doctors of indigenous peoples of the North but no economists and other specialists required for agriculture. Someone may object, "What about livestock experts, fur farmers, and bookkeepers?" but there were no fur merchandisers, experts in gamekeeping for agricultural sector of Taimyr. Some people were lucky and acquired those professions but they were not welcome in Taimyr.
And than, we, representatives of Taimyr indigenous peoples meet with unexpected support in Information and Education Network of Indigenous Peoples "L'auravetl'an" that afforded an opportunity to take the training course «Education in the Field of Human Rights and Rights of Indigenous Peoples». During our study we had a chance to discuss and work out our own conception of our region development and bring it to representatives of legislative and executive authorities of Krasnoyarsk Krai. To revive Taimyr agricultural sector it is necessary to work out and implement a long-term program of concrete measures on complex use, protection and reproduction of animals, deleterious effect protection and state monitoring. It is necessary to use innovative scientific methods implemented in other federal subjects and mind the experience of the indigenous peoples of the North of Krasnoyarsk Krai.
I. Game industry should be founded on three basic principles:
 protection of nature;
 complex development of wilderness areas;
 commercial and amateur trends in hunting.

These complementary principles should be aimed at the positive resulting effect.
Development of traditional hunting activities has to include the commercial trend and training and retraining of experts in gamekeeping and managers.
Small-scale commodity production on the basis of the voluntary integration of chase owners and leaseholders into associations, corporations, farm unions, etc. should help to overcome ineffective and low-profit commercial hunting ventures in Taimyr.
II. Development of domestic reindeer breeding should be also founded on three basic principles:
 protection of reindeer pastures, cover for losses to landholders whose land is intended for reindeer breeding;
 use of game resources of the intended territory;
 development of commercial herds and pedigree stocks of reindeers.
It is urgent to train commodity and livestock experts of reindeer farms.
It is important to associate and unite small reindeer farms to cooperate in provision, processing and realization of meat, endocrine and ferment materials, derivatives, etc.
We will try to share the acquired legal knowledge and experience of social project management with our families, friends and countrymen.
We hope that Taimyr will justify again its name – "plentiful, generous, rich".
Yevgeny Laptukov

The Cardinal Problem of the Northernmost Village
Syndassko village is situated on the coast of the shallow bay in the Khatanga Gulf, 90 kilometers far from the Laptev Sea. It was founded on 29 March 1931. The village has an area of 3.7 square kilometers. It is 285 kilometers far from Khatanga and 969 kilometers from Dudinka. Syndassko borders on the Sakha Republic. This is the northernmost arctic village of Taimyr municipal region. There are 589 villagers in Syndassko and practically all of them are Dolgans. There is a surface brown coal bed nearby and villagers have been working coal for their needs for many years. The villagers' basic activities are still hunting, fishing and reindeer breeding.
There is a primary school and a boarding school, a clubhouse and a library, a kindergarten, a post office, a rural district hospital, a power plant, a local authority's office and a communal services' office in the village.
Fresh drinking water supply used to be and is being an urgent problem of the village. The gulf water is salt; its hardness fails to comply with the set down standards so that it is nonpotable. There is no water supply point in the village. In winter the villagers take fresh water from Lake Ann-Kuol' 6 – 7 kilometers away from the village. There always arises the difficulty of water supply in spring and summer. Ann-Kuol' water supply fails in winter and people have to take water from small lakes and streams 3 kilometers from the village. Ice is brought by the only tractor of the communal services. During spring floods and slush the tractor is useless and drinking water for boarding school, kindergarten, hospital and villagers is taken from neighboring lakes and streams. Melt water brings to these lakes and streams biological waste of a dump and a cemetery. In autumn they take water from Lake Koral' where they have been slaughtering domestic reindeers from far back. In this connection the villagers have gastrointestinal diseases and hepatitis.
In 2005 the village authorities brought water samples of the Khatanga Gulf to Dudinka for chemical analysis. Taimyr municipal region authorities applied to "Konversia" close corporation for draft proposal and methods of dealing with the gulf water. Unfortunately the analysis revealed that the water could not be desalinated to the norm.
To build a water supply point it is necessary to do geological survey, to research springs, to build a diversion unit and a water pipeline. It is also necessary to invite specialized institutes that analyze water resources of the region, perform chemical analysis, determine source power and calculate financial viability.
During our training course we suggested to lay a water pipeline with a pumping station across the gulf to supply the village with water.
Our main task today is to supply the population with harmless and safe drinking water.
Anna Bettu

The Right to Decent Life
Khatanga settlement is situated in the East of Taimyr Peninsula and occupies 336.4 square kilometers. Officially the settlement is included to Dolgan-Nenets Autonomous District and is a part of Krasnoyarsk Krai. The center is Khatanga village, situated on the bank of the Khatanga River, 833 kilometers to northeast of Dudinka.
The population is more than 7000 people. 56 % of them are Taimyr small indigenous peoples. The majority of indigenous peoples in Khatanga are Dolgans, Nganasans, Nenets, Ents, Evenks. Indigenous peoples live mainly in 9 compact villages 300 – 600 people in number. There is a primary school, a kindergarten, a first aid station, a clubhouse, a bathhouse and a shop in every village.
Principal source of income of indigenous peoples were and remain fishing, hunting and reindeer breeding. Family budget of the villagers is based on these traditional trades. At the same time this makes the majority of the indigenous population live on the margin of poverty. An average monthly income of a farm worker is 2328 rubles. And a living wage for able-bodied citizens in Dolgan-Nenets Autonomous District in 2007 is 7342 rubles. I wonder if the living wage is based on Dudinka or Norilsk foodstuff prices that are much lower than those in Khatanga.
Foodstuffs are delivered to Khatanga from Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk by air or are transported from Norilsk in winter. In villages foodstuffs are highly overpriced.
There are a lot of problems connected with socio-economic changes: sovkhozy and state district unitary agricultural enterprises have been liquidated, new business entities (fishing artels, community enterprises, farms, sole proprietorships) are being created. There are 36 business entities in the settlement with 226 numbers employed. Practical application of these business entities is very difficult because of people's inexperience, lack of legal and economic knowledge. For years Soviet power has supported indigenous peoples. The old system has collapsed and no one can still answer the question how to live in new economic conditions.
It is not easy to make the living by traditional trades. Absence of product markets makes it difficult to sell agricultural products. To sell meat of a wild reindeer an indigene is to have an authorized territory, to obtain a license (it costs 300 rubles per head), to purchase material and technical equipment (cartridges, foodstuffs, hunting tackle, gasoline (37 rubles per liter). Fishing is also effortful: one should have an authorized water area, take a fishing quota, and buy tacking and commercial permission. The population of Krasnoyarsk Krai can not hunt and fish in proper time because of delay of quotas setting. Mass shooting of reindeer is from the end of August to October, catch of fish is from July to mid August and from September 1 to September 20. The rest of the time one can be imposed a fine for poaching and above all dispossessed of rifles that maintain hunters and their families.
The settlement's indigenes can not sell agricultural products for lack of product markets. Transportation problems make meat and fish prime costs exceed the cost prices. This naturally causes losses to farms and people.
The Khatanga settlement has its peculiarities and difficulties – remoteness, isolation, hard-to-reach position.
Flights to the villages are fulfilled by "Zapolarye" airline. Ticket costs vary from 3600 to 14500 rubles subject to distance. On account of high prices people get to the settlement by a motor ship or hitchhike. In winter one can get by snowmobiles or commercial transport of local entrepreneurs. Prices are naturally fixed by entrepreneurs at their discretion.
Domestic reindeer breeding used to be the key farming industry but it is practically no longer now. Today private domestic deer farms have remained only in three northmost villages and the total number is 6696 deer. There are 485 nomads in the settlement.
Degradation of farming and trades led to poverty especially in remote villages. Run-down of employed workers and growth of unemployment raises alcoholism (especially adolescent), number of suicide and accidents.
Preservation of reindeer breeding that indigenously was the main source of food, clothes, domestic articles and the basis of traditional way of life of northerners. Rise of standard of living is neglected. Indigenous peoples will not survive without state support – farming as the case stands can not be profitable and ensure decent life we all have the right for.
Maria Chardu

INTERNS' VIEWS

During our training course in Informational Legal Center of Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai I learned international laws in the field of human rights and rights of indigenous peoples. The majority of the indigenous peoples face legal matters and others: how and where to register land for long-term use and what are the mechanisms of protecting one's rights. On October 4 we had a meeting with N.A. Fokin, Member of Legislative Assembly of Krasnoyarsk Krai. During the meeting we touched upon the problems of settlements' life support. Many Taimyr indigenous peoples are nomads and they have no televisions, radio or other means of communication. Thereby on a large scale indigenous people are unfamiliar with the world events. We must thank Ye.N. Nechushkina, organizer of the training course, and the rest of the teachers for help. When I return home I will share this knowledge with my fellow-countrymen.
Vadim Vengo

Each of us hopes that the radiant future will come some time. I know that we must take direct part in development of Russia but it will take years.
Today we live in the society that does not hope for the better. Our youth is a matter of deep concern because the future of Russia depends on new generations. I am sorry for our children who are early inured to take alcoholic drinks. This leads to high level of hooliganism and precocious pregnancy. It all starts since schooldays when children walk around their village and drink spirits instead of doing their homework and this has grave consequences.
I want it all come to an end. We can open circles and hobby groups for children at schools and justify their hope for the radiant future: some of them like dancing, some - singing and drawing. It is indigenous children who have high creative abilities.
After our training course I understood we've got to do something to interest at least a few children in some activity.
I want to thank my teachers for they always had time for us in spite of their being busy. I wish them every success in their initiatives. And I also wish them hold such courses more often and do not forget to invite us. Thank you!
Maria Popova

Our training course in Informational Legal Center of Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai has come to an end. Three weeks have simply slipped away and we've learned so much interesting and useful information. We have yet to digest what we've learned and bring it to other indigenes.
The classes were highly interesting. We must thank our teachers O.A. Suvorova and I.N. Nechushkina, they taught us in prejudice of their time.
It is really very surprising that a person like Yelena Nechushkina should have so much energy to train us from morning deep into the night. None of us would have legal education and she had to explain us that intricate science. And besides classes she had to arrange meetings at all levels.
On October 4 we had a meeting with Nikolay Fokin, Member of Legislative Assembly of Krasnoyarsk Krai. He was interested in the questions concerning the population of the municipal region. It should be noted that N. Fokin always supported our museum. And this time he was interested in events dedicated to the anniversary of the museum. Our small museum of nature and ethnography under Taimyrsky reserve is 15 on 16 September 2008. Apparently N. Fokin is going to help us with organization of the events because he asked to issue a booklet on the subject. Nikolay Andreevich helped to republish a book of poems of "Ogduo" Aksenova, first Dolgan poetess, founder of Dolgan written language and literature. The book is entitled "Baraksan" – "gladness, amazement, admiration" in Dolgan.
Wherever I am I always say our museum is the northernmost in the world. It keeps the ancient culture of Nganasans as well as of Dolgans. We start all our exhibitions with the history of these ancient people. And its history is very interesting and eventful. Visit us and you will see it with your own eyes!
Zinaida Marjasova

From 15 September to 20 October 2007 I took part in the training course "Education in the Field of Human Rights and Rights of Indigenous peoples" of Informational Legal Center of Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai and LIENIP. Our study started on the board of motor ship "V. Chkalov" where we got acquainted with Olga Aleksandrovna Suvorova, a very nice and interesting person. We learned a lot of interesting information while staying aboard. Olga Aleksandrovna told us about foundation of Igarka, the places of Stalin exile and many other things we didn't even know about. She and Maria Sirotina held classes on social projects and they taught us to make applications for grants.
I will always remember our private meeting with Viktor Pavlovich Krivonogov, Doctor of History and professor. He treated us to tea and a traditional Dolgan dish. Viktor Pavlovich told us many interesting facts about indigenes and about his new book that describes the current situation of Taimyr small indigenous peoples. It's a pity he hadn't met with any support and had to publish it with his own money.
A meeting with N.A. Fokin, Member of Legislative Assembly of Krasnoyarsk Krai, was also in a friendly atmosphere. Nikolay Andreevich Fokin inquired about the life of Khatanga residents and gave answers to our questions. I want to express my thanks to I.Ye. Zhmakov, ombudsman of Krasnoyarsk Krai, for his meeting with us. I especially liked Yelena Nechushkina's training exercises in social competence. They were highly interesting. It's a pity they were scarce. I'd like them be more frequent.
I am also grateful to Yelena Nechushkina, director of Informational Legal Center of Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai, - she gave us an opportunity to follow the course and she gave us legal knowledge. It was very difficult to understand the laws at first but with the help of Yelena Nechushkina we finally could make the sense of their principal. In general I liked all our teachers, interns and the atmosphere.

Yelena Sablina

INTERNS' RECEIPTS OF TRADITIONAL CUISINE

Take neither big nor small fish, skin it, cut to pieces and break one of them into minuscule pieces. Pour cold water into a pot, add salt to taste, pieces of fish and put it on the stove. A very important point is to simmer big pieces and take them out of the pot as soon as a scum appears and bring the small pieces to the boil. You can add potatoes, greens, onion and spice. Bon appétit!
Zinaida Maryasovaz

"Sagudai" or "Sugudai" is made of fresh fish without onion, pepper or vinegar. Scale a whitefish alive, remove bones, slice fillet to cross pieces and eat them. The whole point is that one should cut the fish while it is alive. People in the know say – "uzhe sagudaish", i.e. "you are eating the fish that is still moving its gills"
Yevgeny Laptukov

Sure enough sliced frozen fish ("stroganina") is the most favorite dish of the peoples of the North. They usually have it after a hard day's work or before going to sleep. They take hot tea with this cold dish and feel sleepy after that, so it acts as a soporific.
To prepare this dish you should skin one big fresh frozen fish and slice it up. The dish is ready. You can serve it up with different dressings, onion, garlic, etc. The main thing is to slice and eat the fish while it is frozen. You can cook a "five-minute" fish of the melted remains. Cut the melted fish into small pieces, add slices of onion, vegetable oil, salt and pepper to taste. That's all.
Yelena Sablina

Indigenous people both adults and kids like this dish very much. Try to cook it yourself.
Take a deer's head. Take out brains. Pour some vegetable oil to the frying pan and fry deer's brains 30 minutes. Add salt and spice to taste. Bon appétit!
Maria Popova

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