The mythology of these people includes spirits called kelets, including herds of deer with obsidian hooves and an eight-pawed polar bear.
The mythology of these people includes spirits called kelets, including herds of deer with obsidian hooves and an eight-pawed polar bear. Their kinship structures were studied by an exiled Polish anthroplogist, Waldemar Bogoraz. In the 1730s a military expedition sent to conquer these people was led by a man about whom it was said that "wolverines fall dead from his breath." That man, (*) Dmitri Pavlutsky, was captured and roasted alive by these people, who also drove off their traditional rivals the Yukaghirs and the Koryaks. Most people of this ethnicity live on a peninsula whose chief city is Anadyr; their language is thought to be related to that spoken on ► Kamchatka. For 10 points, the name of what Paleo-Siberian people also applies to the sea located just north of the Bering Strait?
The mythology of these people includes spirits called kelets, including herds of deer with obsidian hooves and an eight-pawed polar bear.
Chukchi people (accept Chukchi Sea)