Shilyagir

The Shilyagir are an Evenki, or Tungus, clan band of the Vitim taiga, roaming the basin of the Vitim, a right-bank tributary of the Lena, as nomadic reindeer herders and big-game hunters. In the seventeenth century Cossack fur-tax collectors drew Lena-basin clans such as theirs into the Russian yasak system.