The national history of the Yakuts

The Yakuts are one of the major ethnic groups in eastern Siberia, with approximately 380,000 people in the late 20th century. In the 17th century, a small area living on the banks of the middle reaches of the Lena River has now expanded to the entire Sakha (Yakutia) Republic at the northeastern end of Russia. The Sakha people speak a Turkic language and call themselves Sakha people. The Sakha people seem to be a united ethnic group. It is generally believed that the Sakha people are a mixture of immigrants from the Baikal Lake area and the indigenous people of the Lena River (most likely the Evenk people, who have made many contributions to the Sakha culture). kind. However, other evidence points to ancestry related to Turkic-speaking tribes in the steppes and Altai mountains.

However, other information proves that the ancestors of the Yakuts came from the south, and may also be descendants of the Huns, and are closely related to the Turkic tribes in the steppes and Altai mountains. Little is known about the early history of the Sakha people, although narrative poetic stories date back to the 10th century AD. In the 17th century, it peacefully assimilated with other northern ethnic groups. There were 80 independent tribes in Japan, and the tribes were divided into clans. The nuclear family is the primary social unit of the Sakha people. Women generally have a lower status in family and public life. Supernatural powers were attributed to blacksmiths because their skills were viewed as divinely gifted talents. The Sakha religion of yesteryear had many supernatural spirits, some good and some evil.