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Bruce Parry visits native and modern people who live under Arctic conditions in Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Nordic Russia, Norwegian Lapland and Spitzbergen. He shares for one summer and considers the locals' natural hardship, economic and conservation prospects, including the effects of modernization and global warming.
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Episode 1
52 mins
Bruce visits two 'brigades' of the 540 native tribes in Russia's vast Arctic Siberian wilderness. Since the Soviet collapse, much has changed, much remained. The Sakha breed a very tough local horse breed. The Eveni keep reindeer. Bruce is fascinated by shamanism, which originated here, but can't be revived after the Soviet persecution.





