Northern indigenous peoples

This list is based solely on territory; the peoples listed here do not belong to a single language family or ethnicity: they are Finnish, Turkic, Eskimo-Aleut, and other groups. May of them are (almost) extinct.

Many of these peoples live in Siberia, and their names here are transliterations from Russian, rather than self-names. In some cases this creates difficulty in providing the plural form, because the Russian letter 'Ц' is rendered as 'ts'. These cases are marked by the asterisk (*).

• Aleut
• Chukchas (see Chukchi language)
• Chuvans
• Dolgans
• Evenks (obsolete: Tungus)
• Evens
• Inuit
• Itel'mens
• Karelians
• Kets
• Khanty
• Kamchadals
• Koryaks
• Kumandints
• Lamuts
• Mansi
• Nanais (Russian plural: Nanaitsy)
• Negidals
• Nenets (*) (Russian plural: Nentsy, old Russian name Samoyeds)
• Nganasans
• Nivkhs
• Orochs (Evenk tribe by the Oro river)
• Oroks
• Ostyak
• Saami (old Russian name Lopars, i.e., Lapp)
• Sel'kups
• Shors
• Teleuts
• Tofalars
• Tuvian-Todzhynts
• Udege
• Ul'chs
• Yakuts
• Yenets (*) (Enets, Russian plural: Yentsy, obsolete: Yenisei Samoyeds)
• Yukagirs