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The Mansi are an indigenous people living primarily in western Siberia, Russia, with their own distinct language and traditional way of life based on hunting, fishing, and herding. They are significant as one of many indigenous groups whose cultural heritage and rights are of international interest in discussions about protecting minority populations and their ancestral lands.
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The Mansi (Mansi: Ма̄ньщи / Мāньси / Мāньси мāхум, Māńsi / Māńsi māhum, [ˈmaːnʲsʲi, ˈmaːnʲsʲi ˈmaːxʊm]) are an Ob-Ugric indigenous people living in Khanty–Mansia, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khanty–Mansia, the Khanty and Mansi languages have co-official status with Russian. The Mansi language is one of the postulated Ugric languages of the Uralic family. The Mansi people were formerly known as the Voguls.
Together with the Khanty people, the Mansi are politically represented by the Association to Save Yugra, an organisation founded during Perestroika in the late 1980s. This organisation was among the first regional indigenous associations in Russia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mansi people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.