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xv glossary Abasy the Devil (Sakha) a’lma shaman (Yukaghir) ayibii shadow; soul (Yukaghir) Ayibii-lebie the realm of the dead, or Land of Shadows (Yukaghir) babushka grandmother (Russian) Barguzin type of sable fur (English, from Russian Barguzinskiy) Bulchut fur-trading corporation founded by Anatoliy Maksimov (literally “hunter,” Sakha) Buyun fur-trading corporation founded by the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, RAIPON, in 2004 (Sakha) chuchelo puppet or mannequin (Russian) dusha soul (Russian) Ilken newspaper based in Yakutsk (Evenki) koumiss fermented mare’s milk (English, from Sakha) Lebie’-po’gil the spirit owner of the forest (Yukaghir) metvetiatnik a hunter who has made himself a target for revenge by killing bears (literally “bear-marked,” Russian) Nelemnoye a Yukaghir village on the Upper Kolyma River (Russian, from Yukaghir) xvi . glossary obshchina commune, collective (Russian) pe’jul luck; hunted animal’s guardian spirit or owner (Yukaghir) promyshlenniki contract workers in the fur trade in Siberia in the 1790s (English, from Russian) Sakhabult the Yakutian state fur-trading corporation (literally “Sakha prey,” Sakha) shatun rogue bear that emerges from its den in winter to seek prey (Russian) Soyuzpushnina international fur auction in St. Petersburg, formerly known as Leningrad (Russian) Teki Odulok pseudonym of the Yukaghir writer Nikolay Spiridonov; also used as the name of the Yukaghirs’ trading collective, or obshchina (Yukaghir) tovarishch comrade (Russian) toyon military clan leader (Sakha) Uazik a Russian make of jeep (Russian) valenki felt boots (Russian) Verkhne Kolymsk a village situated at the confluence of the Yasachnaya and Kolyma rivers (Russian) Vezdekhod a Russian make of personal tank (Russian) Yakutsk capital of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Russian) yasak fur tax (Russian) Zyryanka a town on the Kolyma River, in an area once infamous for its Stalinist-era labor camps (Russian) ...

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