The oldest-rooted people of north-east Siberia — Odul and Vadul hunters whose language is related to nothing else, and whose country the fur trade emptied within two generations.
Not an ending: hostage-taking, smallpox and Tungus and Yakut expansion cut the Yukaghir from roughly 4,700 in the mid-17th century to a few hundred, but Yukaghir communities survive on the lower Kolyma today.
The modern ethnography of Yukaghir hunting and cosmology, based on fieldwork with the Upper Kolyma Yukaghir.
Cited specifically for the Kolyma/Indigirka conquest, the hostage (amanat) system and the documented Yukaghir demographic collapse.