Description: Foreword to the Series. Preface. 1.Land, Resources, and Cultural Survival. The Importance of Land.Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North.The Evenkis of Northern Transbaykalia: A Case Study.Fieldwork: "Ground-Truthing" Evenki Land Tenure. 2.Evenki Land Use and Land Tenure. Life in Northern Transbaykalia: Changing Geographic and Social Relations.Evenki Herding and Hunting in Northern Transbaykalia.Evenki Land Tenure. 3.Losing Control: Alienation of Evenki Land During the Tsarist Era. State Policy Toward Indigenous Peoples.Incursions on Evenki Homelands.Modifications of Evenki Land Tenure. 4.Evenki Land Use Reconstructed: The Soviet Era. "Equal but Unenlightened:" Early Soviet Policy Toward Indigenous Northerners.Establishing Native Territories: The Myth of the Homelands.Collectivization Contra Collective Access.Sedentarization and Resettlement.Socialist Land Enclosure.Industrial Development and Environmental Degradation. 5.Collapse of Union, Ascent of Indigenous Rights. Perestroyka and Indigenous Agendas for Reform.Russian Land Reform and Aboriginal Rights.Land Claims in Siberia: Various Approaches. 6.Obshchina Lands: Progress and Pitfalls. Obtaining Obshchina Lands: Procedures in Northern Transbaykalia.Reforms Deformed: Obstacles to Land Claims.Limitations. 7.Gaining Ground? First Steps and Future Needs. Other Approaches to Evenki Land Rights.Traditional Activities, Land, and the Next Generation.Evenki Goals for Indigenous Land Reform: Partial Fulfillment.Balancing Competing Agendas. Glossary of Russian and Evenki Terms. Appendix. References.

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