qoryak

plural qoryaks

1. Qoryak, is the phonetic transliterated word for the Koryak people, a Paleo-Siberian group indigenous to northeastern Asia and the Bering Strait in close proximity to Alaska, historically considered independent from the Slavic-Russians of Europe.

   My great-grandma was a Qoryak person during the Tsar revolution.

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   "The Qoryak people live in the northern part of the Kamchatka peninsula which is part of the Russian Federation. They were conquered by the Cossacks at the end of the 1600s and were then incorporated into the Russian empire. However, the tsar mainly left them alone except for he required a fur tribute from all adult males and some transportation services."

   2000, Missouri Ethnologue Collective, Hunter-Gatherers Data Sheet, Missouri University, page 1