Indigenous People and the Soviet Union: a Sakha perspective w/ Sardana Nikolaeva (pt.1)

Sardana Nikolaeva, a postdoctoral fellow, discusses the misconceptions and lack of recognition faced by the indigenous people of the Sakha Republic. She explores the Sakha people's adaptation to the Arctic climate and their traditional mode of subsistence. The influence of political prisoners on changing perspectives of indigenous peoples is also discussed, along with the cultural development of the Sakha people within the Soviet Union. The voting patterns in the speaker's region and the complicated relationship between Indigenous people and central Russia are also explored.