A Changing Way of Life

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In north central Mongolia, in the taiga along the
border with Russia, the Dukha people have lived a
nomadic life for generations, roaming with their
reindeer herds and hunting to fill in a diet
based largely on reindeer milk. The Dukha fear
they are losing their identity in the face of a
conservation order by the government that bans
unlicensed hunting on most of their traditional
land. Six years ago, the Mongolian government
added most of the Dukha's herding grounds to a
national park, aiming to stop unregulated hunting
that had caused serious damage over previous
decades.
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Reindeer lick salt off the coat of a Dukha nomad
in her family camp near the village of
Tsagaannuur, Khovsgol Aimag, Mongolia, on April
20, 2018.
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Tsetse, the six-year-old daughter of Dukha herder
Erdenebat, rides a reindeer in a forest near the
village of Tsagaannuur on April 18, 2018.
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Local doctor Davaajav Nyamaa
rides a reindeer to visit nomads
in a forest near Tsagaannuur on April 19, 2018.
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Baigalmaa Munkhbat dresses her daughter Tsetse,
as her husband Erdenebat Chuluu watches, in their
tent on April 19, 2018.
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Erdenebat Chuluu walks through
a forest to bring in his
reindeer before nightfall on April 18, 2018.
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Tsetse leads a reindeer as she helps bring in the
herd before nightfall on April 18, 2018. The herd
is taken to nearby grazing spots twice a day.
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Baigalmaa Munkhbat prepares food for her family
in their tent on April 19, 2018. The Dukha diet
consists mainly of meat and products made with
flour, like dough to make dumplings and a local
type of pasta.
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A Shaman collapses after performing a ritual
marking the first day of the lunar month in his
tent near the village of Tsagaannuur on April 19,
2018.
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Shaman Kyzyl-ool stands
outside his tent after
performing a ritual on April 19, 2018.
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A reindeer stands in the evening
sun after an afternoon of grazing
in the camp of Erdenebat Chuluu on April 18, 2018.
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A Dukha nomad drives a herd of reindeer
on April 20, 2018. This herd of about 300
animals is the combined property of four families.
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Jargal Gombosed talks with her daughter and
granddaughter in their tent on April 20, 2018.
"In my day, everything, like rice and flour, were
really rare.
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A local doctor uses a telephone to
call patients in a tent in the taiga
forest near the village of Tsagaannuur on April
20, 2018.
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Tsetse sits among her family's reindeer in
a forest on April 21, 2018.
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Jargal Gombosed holds her grandchild outside
her family's reindeer pen.
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Tsetse rides a reindeer in a forest on
April 21, 2018. Tsetse spends many hours
every day darting through the forest on reindeer
back.
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Smoke rises from the chimney of the family tent
of Erdenebat Chuluu near the village of
Tsagaannuur, Khovsgol Aimag, Mongolia, on April
21, 2018.
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An aerial picture of the village of Tsagaannuur
alongside Dod Nuur Lake in northern Mongolia on
April 23, 2018. Tsagaannuur is the nearest
village for reindeer herders living in the
forests.
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Ethnic Dukha pupil Davaajargal
Taivan stands outside her
family's rented house in Tsagaannuur on April 23,
2018.
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Pupils leave the village school in Tsagaannuur on
April 23, 2018. People who are between 35-40
years old, belong to the last generation that
speaks the Dukhan language, linguist Elisabetta
Ragagnin said.
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Otgonkhuu Tseveen, the son of a
Dukha family, talks to his teacher at
the village school in Tsagaannuur on April 23,
2018.
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