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Russia: A Chukchi familiy in front of their home near the Bering Strait. Drawing by Louis Choris in summer (1816).

Russia: A Chukchi familiy in front of their home near the Bering Strait. Drawing by Louis Choris in summer  (1816).

Chukchi, or Chukchee are an indigenous people inhabiting the Chukchi Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within the Russian Federation. They speak the Chukchi language. The Chukchi originated from the people living around the Okhotsk Sea.

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