Gilemi

The Gilemi were a fishing and hunting people of the lower Amur and northern Sakhalin, usually called Nivkh. After 1291 the Yuan established a military command at Nurgan near the Amur mouth.

The Ming established the Nurgan commission in 1409 and enrolled Gilemi chiefs. They later destroyed Yongning Temple, built there in 1413; when the eunuch Yishiha returned in 1432, he found the ruins and pardoned those responsible.