Abstract

As in other parts of the world, the autochthonous territories of the Russian Federation are under the threat of vast industrial projects, like Polar Ural Industrial threatening the Mansis and Man’ Uskve’s ethnographic camp, where the intelligentsia comes, since 1994, to maintain future generations’ language, folklore and ethnography. Between such threats and vapours of alcohol, the Tundra Nenets, the Khantes, the Mansis and the Taiga Nenets are once again condemned to explore their tradition in order to strengthen the roots of the future