Evenki

Definitions

noun A member of a people inhabiting a large area of eastern Siberia in Russia and northern Nei Monggol (Inner Mongolia) in China.
noun The Tungusic language of the Evenki.

noun a member of the people inhabiting an area of northern Mongolia and eastern Siberia
noun the Tungusic language of the Evenki in eastern Siberia

[Russian, Evenki people, from Evenki ə´wənkī.]

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Little information, assumed stable Low human (Evenki) density and poor economy result in little threat at present to wildlife and habitats Need is low due to remoteness and low population density.

Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Russian Arctic and sub-Arctic 2009
They and the other native people of the Yakut Arctic — the Yukaghir and the Eveny and Evenki reindeer herders — have powerful shamans, although only a handful are left.

The Arctic Oil Rush Shoumatoff, Alex 2008
The Eveny and Evenki people (same way of life, different linguistic heritage) have been relying for centuries on reindeer (known in the Nearctic as caribou), which provide transport, food, shelter, and clothing.

The Arctic Oil Rush Shoumatoff, Alex 2008
He was an Evenki, the only native on the teaching staff, young, everyone liked him.

Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981
Arctic tribal groups (Inuit, Evenki, etc.) live on almost purely meat diets, but are among the healthiest people on the planet.

Army Rumour Service 2009
In Siberia, we have the Itelmen, the Khanty, the Nganasan, the Evenki, the Ket, the Yukaghir and the Nivkhi.

Robert Lindsay 2008
But the wild and domesticated reindeer have been experiencing massive die-offs in the spring and fall, I’m told by Eveny and Evenki activists.

The Arctic Oil Rush Shoumatoff, Alex 2008