Тоонто Нютаг "Homeland"
Date of Creation
Summer 7-2025
Description
This digital project explores and examines the declining language and culture of the Buryat people of Siberia, Russia.
For hundreds of years, the Buryat people were made up of independent tribes that lived nomadically in the Eastern Steppe. The colonialism of the Russian Empire and establishment of the Soviet Union introduced a century of cultural and linguistic oppression in Buryatia.
Utilizing interactive maps, timelines, and galleries, this project aims to answer the following questions: Who are the Buryat people, what has caused their language and culture to decline, and what action is being taken to preserve it?
Keywords
Buryatia, Buryat, Siberia, language, culture, Soviet Union, colonialism, Russia
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Document Type
Digital Project
Recommended Citation
Ruohoniemi, Aaron, "Тоонто Нютаг "Homeland"" (2025). Digital Scholarship Summer Research Fellows. 21.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/dssrf/21