> In response to Shauna McLarnon's request for information on
> indigenous/state relations within the Sakha Republic -- in March 1994
> a group of indigenous representatives from Russia came through Tulsa
> Oklahoma on a visit. I have a few cards from that visit (I spoke
> with them about American Indian rights) -- and a couple of names and
> addresses that might be useful:
>
> Andrey Vas Ilyevich Krivoshapkin
> Chairman
> Commission on Human Rights and National Minorities
> State Legislative Assembly of the Sakha Republic (Yakutiya)
> ul.Korolyova 8/2, kv. 565
> Moscow, Russia
>
> Yuri Samar
> President, Scanty Northern Peoples Foundation
> of. 671, block 2, 37a, Vernadsky st.
> Moscow 117415 Russia
> (095) 938-96-71 office telephone
About these guys you should really forget as fast as you can. The are
typical representatives of the old soviet "national elite" of the
northern peoples. Chosen and educated by the state and always thankful to
it. If you want to know more about this, ask those, who attended this
year's meeting of the UN-Working group on Indigenous peoples
There are hardly any "grassroots"-movements in Russia, they are really
hard to find, but from these gouvernemental Indigenous representatives you
will not learn anything interesting
Johannes Rohr
Cologne/ Germany