Kindigir

The Kindigir are an Evenki clan whose early hunting grounds lay around the upper Lena and the northern shore of Lake Baikal. Dushkachan, on the Kichera river near the lake's northern tip, is described as one of the first settled camps of the Kindigir, and archaeology traces human occupation there to the early first millennium.

The clan entered written history with the Russian conquest of the Lena country in the 1600s, when the Baikal Evenki came under yasak administration. Kindigir lineages, including a Lakshikagir branch, were later counted among the Barguzin Khamnigans, the Mongolized Evenki clans absorbed into the Buryat world east of Baikal.