2022 Three Minute Thesis
Presentation Type
Open Access Poster Presentation
Keywords
Indigenous peoples--Russia--Kamchatka Peninsula; Itelmens--Russia--Kamchatka Peninsula; Koryaks--Russia--Kamchatka Peninsula;
Abstract
The Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East was one of the last territories to become part of Russia during its colonization of Siberia. Here Russians came into contact with its Indigenous peoples - nomadic Koryaks and settled Itelmens. Just like other Indigenous peoples of Russia and the rest of the world, they faced the terrible consequences of colonization. They were forcibly baptized, Russified and expelled from their ancestral territories. Nowadays, Indigenous knowledge here is largely forgotten. This study will attempt to help the Indigenous peoples of Kamchatka repatriate this knowledge by focusing on geographic knowledge, mainly among the Itelmens. In cooperation with them, the original geographic knowledge of the Indigenous peoples will be mapped based on the records of the first Russian colonizers, with special attention to Stepan Krasheninnikov. The mapped knowledge can then potentially be used by the Indigenous peoples of Kamchatka in their ongoing cultural resurgence.
Start Date
11-11-2022 12:00 PM
End Date
11-11-2022 1:30 PM
Event Host
Graduate College, University of Northern Iowa
Faculty Advisor
Andrey Petrov
Department
Department of Geography
Copyright
©2022 Semyon Drozdetckii
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Drozdetckii, Semyon, "F15 Mapping for Cultural Resurgence: Repatriating Geographical Knowledge of Kamchatka’s Indigenous Peoples through Restorative Re-Mapping of Materials from Early Scientific Expeditions" (2022). Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) at UNI. 2.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/tmt/2022/all/2
F15 Mapping for Cultural Resurgence: Repatriating Geographical Knowledge of Kamchatka’s Indigenous Peoples through Restorative Re-Mapping of Materials from Early Scientific Expeditions
The Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East was one of the last territories to become part of Russia during its colonization of Siberia. Here Russians came into contact with its Indigenous peoples - nomadic Koryaks and settled Itelmens. Just like other Indigenous peoples of Russia and the rest of the world, they faced the terrible consequences of colonization. They were forcibly baptized, Russified and expelled from their ancestral territories. Nowadays, Indigenous knowledge here is largely forgotten. This study will attempt to help the Indigenous peoples of Kamchatka repatriate this knowledge by focusing on geographic knowledge, mainly among the Itelmens. In cooperation with them, the original geographic knowledge of the Indigenous peoples will be mapped based on the records of the first Russian colonizers, with special attention to Stepan Krasheninnikov. The mapped knowledge can then potentially be used by the Indigenous peoples of Kamchatka in their ongoing cultural resurgence.
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