Indigenous diamonds w/ Sardana Nikolaeva
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🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Sardana Nikolaeva (Sakha), Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto's Ziibiing Lab (@ziibiinglab), returns to the podcast to discuss her new study, "Indigenous Diamonds: Extractivism and Indigenous Politics in the Diamond Province of Russia"
Read the report here
https://www.ziibiinglab.org/indigenous-diamonds
Check out her prior episode, "Indigenous People and the Soviet Union: a Sakha perspective"
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/26618079
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| 0:00.0 | And So, Don't come on here. |
| 0:25.0 | Don't come on here. Hi comrades and relatives welcome back to the Red Nation podcast. Thank you so much to our |
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| 1:10.6 | Today we have a very special guest. I'm so excited to be talking with |
| 1:15.8 | Sardana. She is indigenous from the Sahra Republic in so-called Russia and would you like to introduce yourself? |
| 1:25.0 | Hi everyone, thank you very much for having me to promote this study that I came out on |
| 1:32.0 | February 14th titled Indigenous Diamonds. |
| 1:36.6 | My name is Sardana Nikolava and I'm |
| 1:39.6 | Sahar from the Sahari public, which is the far northeastern region of the Russian Federation. |
| 1:47.0 | And Sahara Public is known by its large territory, which is the largest territorialist speaking in size among all the administrative |
| 1:59.6 | units within the Russian Federation. |
| 2:03.0 | And also the 40% of our territory |
| 2:06.3 | is located in the Arctic area. |
| 2:08.6 | So we are in the Arctic region. |
| 2:11.0 | And this is like one of the things |
| 2:12.3 | that not so many people know is that Russia actually has the largest |
| 2:16.7 | Arctic territory in like with the in comparison with the other Arctic spaces, you know, like United States, Canada, Norway, |
| 2:27.2 | European Arctic and such. It is also known by the fact that it's very sparsely populated, so predominantly indigenous peoples live there. |
| 2:39.0 | We, Sahel people, we are the largest in population. We are around like 500,000 people, but we also have the other small |
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