Reindeer herders of the tundra and sea-mammal hunters of the Bering coast — the one Siberian people Russia could not conquer, fought to a standstill across half a century of Arctic war.
Not an ending: after Russia abandoned Anadyrsk fort in 1764 and made peace in 1778, the Chukchi remained 'not completely subdued' subjects in name only; some 16,000 Chukchi live in Chukotka and neighbouring regions today.
The Jesup North Pacific Expedition monograph — still the foundational ethnography of Chukchi society, herding and religion.
Cited here specifically for its chapter-length account of the Chukchi Wars, the Anadyrsk cost accounting and the 1764-88 settlement.