Nomadic environmental camps for Evenki children: experience and development perspectives

¹ Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North of Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1, Petrovskogo street, Yakutsk, 677027, Russia
² North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, 2, Lenina avenue, Yakutsk, 677000 Russia
³ Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), 33, Lenina avenue, Yakutsk, 677007, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Russian Federation

^* Corresponding author: seva_may@mail.ru

Abstract

The relevance comes from the fact that the article deals with the most important problem of educating children of small indigenous peoples of the North on the basis of their traditional way of life, native language and original ethnic culture, convincingly argued by quotations from the visiting session of the Presidium of the State Council when discussing the problems of indigenous peoples of the North, 'The concept of sustainable development of small indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation', which stresses that 'difficult natural and climatic conditions, vulnerability of traditional way of life and small size of each of the peoples of the North conditioned the necessity to form a special state policy regarding their sustainable development, which provides for systematic measures on preservation of original culture, traditional way of life, and original habitat of these peoples.'