Onoid

The Onoid were a Yukaghir tribal group who held the middle and upper reaches of the Yana River in northern Siberia and spoke the Yan, or Detkil, dialect of Yukaghir. Their neighbors knew them by a harsh name: onondi means robbers or plunderers, which the ethnographer Vladimir Jochelson derived from the Yukaghir verb ono, to seize by force.

In the Russian fur-tribute books of the later 1600s they are entered as the Yukaghirs of the Zelyansky clan. Like the other Yan-dialect clans they were drawn into the tribute system, then thinned by epidemics and warfare with Even and Evenki groups, and in the colonial period the Onoid vanish from the records as a separate community.