Nanagir

The Nanagir were an Evenki-speaking Tungus clan group of the Vitim and Patom taiga between the Yenisey and the Lena, among the westernmost Tungus rods of the Siberian forest belt. Seventeenth-century cossack fur hunters advancing from Mangazeya exacted the fur tribute, or yasak, from these nomadic elk hunters and reindeer herders.