Tungusic reindeer people who came out of the Baikal taiga into the north-eastern mountains — the 'Lamut' of Russian records, who besieged Okhotsk three times before the fur tribute held.
Not an ending: forced into yasak by 1700, the Even nonetheless kept expanding, reaching Kamchatka in the 1840s; over 22,000 people identified as Even in the 2010 Russian census.
Long-term fieldwork with the Eveny reindeer herders of the Verkhoyansk range — the standard English book on Even herding life.