Show natives OF SIBERIA I 1 more than hundred tribes share country with russians people nomadic in their tendencies hunting fishing and tending their flocks and herds being principal occupations trans siberia the average avera gt man back at home in civilized parts of the world does not realize that more than a hundred tribes and nations share siberia with the russ I 1 he I 1 e has rile merely rely a vague idea that some nondescript natives called tartars dwell or used to dwell in northern asia it Is only qute quite recently moreover that the ethnological world has realized that the american indian originated in these parts the visit of professor of the smithsonian Smiths onlan two years ago was one of the first evidences america has shown of her hei intention to delve into the immensely rich and interesting field for research that siberia otters offers to the student of 0 the origin of peoples so numerous are these siberian folk that it takes you some little time to recollect just their sonorous names let alone their characteristics soy and Dark hata hats and soy dries anes Kara gasses and tartars Tar tars Polen Poten gosses and catchine Katch Kat chine lne tartars Tar tars gillams and dolgaya Dol gams gama acho uv antzes N an old chone woman with face of an american indian pronounced like the william de morgan hero and Yook agirs mamasses Ka masses tad and tepal exes ares Mesh alres and Bach kirs la and Al eouts katiles and itel mens and kortals Kor laks Ouli kons and Na molls malls Dau rians and dantzl and managree Mana Man grea agres and Oleny ays crotches ches and man ala rl couns aroks and kitchas Olt chas Nig idala ls and chones Ngat koons and Sam agirs hassaps and sar sa and Toong uses doo boo flats and the rest they come from finn and mongol and turk stock but most of them have intermarried Inter married to such an extent that it Is well nigh impossible to trace the tha predominant blood in any one family nomad folk tor for the most part bunting and fishing and tending their flocks and herds worshiping the manifestations ife of nature as expounded by their shem mun or medicine man living the outdoor carefree life of the american indian like the tha american indian many of them are diminishing in numbers however killed oft off by the tha diseases introduced by the white man only three or four of the most populous races the yakutat Boor lata and Toong uses are holding their own the indeed who live along tho the banks of 0 the great river lena for a few hundred miles north and south of tho the arctic circle are actually abao absorbing russians where a russian settler marries a woman th the e family tends to become in the second generation the living up in tho the frozen wilds of northeastern siberia talk practically alli the same I 1 language an as the turk in constantinople |