The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-04-17
MANY RACES lNHABIT @
RUSSIA psSIATIC LAND
n, snitc of Ma ~ MoI,golian Tribes
the RuSsinr = Are largely In
the Majority.
PAGANS AID MUSSELMEN
lmmigrnnts ipld Descendants OF Po-
uucal CON yicts Comprise the
white Representation.

uMsE. Siberia, April 1,-Hy
mail - sih -la. which has forced
world attention. by reason Of the i'm
poraut pyiticul events there. iu-
,mass an the Adatic possessions ~
Russia WIN the exception OF d the
franz. tls7 ian and trans Caucasian
regions Itd the government general
~ T.rka unn whose capital. Tash-
s,n,. ,,us captured by the holsheviki
and vI,sc American yicc-Consul.
Roger . Trcdwell. was arrested and
l,'t o. g nguish IN prison
Sine the MOngolian -inNafious In
'Hr ftr'ccnth century Siberia has
been Lle home Of many tribes do
scerdnl from that race. To tn"
'nreyrIpr the Tartars are perhaps the
most Interesting Their grent center
#. .k.Ian though the national Tartar
,pur,II which, Hike Ukraine and 9TH
Or I.eIuns Of Russia, seeks the de-
,-'rt tuucu's of lis national nspira-
,nft. ie now located ut P"tropar-
'n,ik. not flr from Omsk. This Is on
s.yuui NJ holshoylh terrorism
iua Tdrtsrs ar" true followers or
N,humct ana their mosques are
f,Iud IN almost every city They are
r. minated 10 number 500 900 In the
,tgtrirls Of kazan and Crimca. They
.tro keen seekers nftcr education aud
frauN Tartar hoys and girls receive
'css urs IN French, English and Ger
man from foreign instructors IN
place. like kaZrn Samnrit and lFfa.
tn, ,t-t two Of these places were oc-
.up.,d several months HCo nv the
hoanr,k armies The Tarisrs have
.n oval face. black eyes placed oh
NGgc.E. ana their skin Is brown Their
COSTUME is uuusual the distinguish
inc feature being their cuifrurc over
which is worn "A tight-fittinE calottc.
ur skull cap.
Many MongolIan 1riis-.
considerable number OF Tartlrs
I've no the Aliai mountains on the
frontier 81 China. They are still no
mlts and give over to idula''r. Many
of them worship the sun
Il. Th" people OF the Mongolian race
iuh1bitiug Russia, either European
ur siberian, should be generally di-
,idpd into groups The Finnish
group includes Films. Esthonians. d.
Mordya and Chcrcmiscs Tho Tartar
smaller tribal peoples.
IN important uomadic MOuEolihn
tribe is the kirkhis, who 1.-Two in tho
Icrpc regions ~ Akmoliusk and
Scmlpalatinsk They aggregate moro
'han million Of both sexes. speak
Turkish dialect and are dcvout
mussulmans. They arc chiefly cattle
raiSerS
Tho Iakouts inhabit the region OF
l-kulsk. near Lake Baikul, and speak
u language principally Turkish hut
partly Mongolian They are idolat
rous and live by the hunt and 10y the
raising of cattle.
only Nominal Christians.
IN the province Of Tubolsk. and
generally In the north, even up To the
Arctic ocean, are found the Noguls
and the Ostiacks They descend from
ancient Finnish branch. Although In
principle converted tn Christianity,
they have no real idea OF the Chris
'lpD religion and, ms in ancient times
}-ucico Chamanism, the religion pf
their ancestors SIN other tribes are
'h" Tc'orts on the pl1tcnus' OF the
N'ale the Buriats In the trans Bni-
kt district, the Mauchus In the
Nmuf and the Samoycdcs on tho
Arctic borders wherCs they engage I'm
III" raising OF reindeer
lU the large cities like HArbin,
lrAuist and Omsk. Americans are
struck hy the large number ~ Ruri-
a'e and Tnrtars who are drivers OF
public droSkics They seem to speak
rho Russian language iudiffcrcntlv
.rd apparently hardly know the
.'r'n'H ana different quarters OF the
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