Ket people
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Kets (Кеты in Russian) are Siberian people that speak Ket language. In Imperial Russia they were called ostyaks, without differentiating from several other Siberian people. Later they become known as Yenisey ostyaks, because the live in the middle and lower basin of the Yenisey, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia (Turukhansk and Baikit districts). Kets are the descendants of the tribes of fishermen and hunters of the Yenisey taiga, who adopted some cultural ways of Ket-speaking tribes of South Siberia. Kets were included into the Russian state in the 17th century. They were engaged in hunting, fishing, and even reindeer breeding up north. They were officially recognized as Kets in 1930s, when the Soviet Union started to implement the self-definition policy with respect to indigenous peoples. According to the 2002 census, there were 1494 Kets in Russia (1200 in 1970).
External link
Kets (http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/kets.shtml)