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Thomas Kelly  > STOCK > INDIGENOUS TRIBES > Tsaatan Nomads-West Taiga, Northern Mongolia
Defying all forces of modern globalization, the Tsaatan reindeer nomads of northern Mongolia have chosen to buck the draw of big cities, choosing to return to the ways of survival practiced by their ancestors in the taiga since at least the ice age. But for how long and can their way of life survive?

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Tsaatan family's get-together inside teepee for lunch. Northern Mongolia
Dukha Woman cooking reindeer meat. West Taiga, Northern Mongolia The reindeer are packed, saddled and ridden, milked, and only in desperation or other special circumstances used as food. As meat on the hoof they are insurance against an uncertain future, a resource for a disastrous Mongolia zuud – a killer snowfall following a drought that has already weakened the animals and herder.
Dukha Woman cooking reindeer meat. West Taiga, Northern Mongolia The reindeer are packed, saddled and ridden, milked, and only in desperation or other special circumstances used as food. As meat on the hoof they are insurance against an uncertain future, a resource for a disastrous Mongolia zuud – a killer snowfall following a drought that has already weakened the animals and herder.
A hundred and four years old Shamanist, Suyan, inside teepee, with her daughter and son-in-law. Northern Mongolia
Tssatan woman pressing reindeer cheese between wooden flanks with help of stone, to drain out water from it. Northern Mongolia
Tsaatan man Cooking fish soup in an open hearth. Northern Mongolia
Tsaatan children enjoying eating reindeer bones, inside teepee with their mother. Northern Mongolia
Tsaatan woman collects chopped wood for fuel. Northern Mongolia
Tsaatan man Cooking fish soup in an open hearth.
Northern Mongolia
Tsaatan man Cooking fish soup in an open hearth. Northern Mongolia
Tsaatan man Cooking fish soup in an open hearth.
Northern Mongolia
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Keywords: horses reindeers mongol dukha reindeer people tsaatan sl30 mongol cowboys west taiga northern mongolia
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