Nimchan

The Nimchan are Even-speaking reindeer bands of the lower Lena taiga around the Zhigansk bend and the Kystatyam camps, in present-day central Sakha Republic. They belonged to the Lamut, or Even, world of nomadic Tungus hunters, moving with small reindeer herds between the Lena and its tributaries and paying fur tribute to Russian forts from the seventeenth century.