Chyemdal

The Chyemdal are an Evenki clan band of the Nepa and Tokma river country in the Katanga taiga, the basin of the Lower Tunguska west of the Lena, living as nomadic reindeer herders and hunters. The Russian advance of the seventeenth century reached this district through its river routes and placed its Evenki clans under Cossack fur-tax administration.