Legacies of territorial reorganization for indigenous land claims in Northern RussiaFootnote

Research for this paper, including field work, was supported by grants from the National Council for Soviet and Eastern European Research (NCSEER), the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the United States Information Agency, and the U.S. Department of State (Soviet‐Eastern European Research and Training Act of 1983, Public Law 98–164, Title VIII, 97 Stat. 1047–50). The Baykal Institute of Rational Resource Management (Ulan‐Ude), and especially Senior Researcher Darima Dorzhiyevna Mangatayeva, provided logistical and academic support. Thanks to Greg Poelzer, Gail Osherenko, and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper. None of these organizations or individuals is responsible for the contents or views expressed herein.

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