Orok people

E1001812

The Orok people are an indigenous Tungusic ethnic group native to Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East, traditionally engaged in reindeer herding, hunting, and fishing.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Orok people canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
indigenous people
continent Asia
country Russia
demographicTrend small population
ethnolinguisticGroup Tungusic peoples
hasMinorityStatusIn Russia
language Orok language
languageFamily Tungusic languages
livelihood semi-nomadic herding
subsistence fishing
subsistence hunting
nativeTo Russian Far East
linked to: Russia Far East

Sakhalin Island
partOf Indigenous peoples of Siberia
Indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East
recognizedAsIndigenousPeopleBy Russian Federation
linked to: Russia
region Sakhalin Oblast
relatedEthnicGroup Evenki people
Nivkh people
linked to: Nivkh

Udege people
Ulch people
traditionalOccupation fishing
hunting
reindeer herding
traditionalReligion animism
shamanism
traditionalTerritory eastern Sakhalin
linked to: East Sakhalin Orok

southern Sakhalin
usesAnimal reindeer
vulnerableAspect cultural assimilation risk
language endangerment

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Orok language ethnicGroup Orok people
Bronisław Piłsudski studied Orok people