Orochs or orochons is a small people of Russia that speak the Oroch (Orochon) dialect of the Southern group of Tungusic languages.
Orochs traditionally settled in the southern part of the Khabarovsk Krai, Russia and on the Amur and Kopp rivers. In the 19th century, some of them migrated to Sakhalin. In the early 1930s, the Orochi National District was created, but it was cancelled shortly thereafter "due to lack of native population".
Due to the fact that the people never had a written language, they were educated in the Russian language. Their language, Orochi, is on the verge of dying out. They follow Shamanism, Russian Orthodox Christianity, and Buddhism.
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The Orochis (http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/orochis.shtml)
Stephen M. Chapalov, suggested that we hire one or more of the Orochons as guides and hunters for the expedition, and he recommended one by the name of Gelminto (accent on the last syllable), who was well known to the company as loyal and dependable.
The Orochons were happy indeed, and broad smiles appeared on their faces as they handled the new guns.
The Orochons collected from their saddlebags everything that could be stretched to a foot or more, cut some wood bark, and improvised a sort of three-sided hut.
The trade is in the hands of the Chinese, who export stags' horns, seaweed and mushrooms, and of the Germans, who import groceries and spirits.
The total population was 209,516 in 1897, of whom 57.7% were Russians, the others being Tunguses, Golds, Orochons, Lamuts, Chuvantses, Chukchis, Koryaks, Ghilyaks and Kamchadales.
Their chief occupations are hunting and fishing; the Russians carry on agriculture and trade in furs.
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