Ainu - Spirit of a Northern People
In 1999, the National Museum of Natural History opened
a major exhibition to explore the ancient origin of the Ainu,
their evolving relations with the Japanese, and the
20th century Ainu cultural rebirth.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/ainu/
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Ainu people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ainu (アイヌ, Ainu? IPA: /?ajnu/) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido and north of Honshu in Northern Japan, the Kuril Islands, much of Sakhalin, and the southernmost third of the Kamchatka peninsula. Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word aynu, which means "human" (particularly as opposed to kamuy, i.e., divine beings) in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language; Emishi, Ezo or Yezo (蝦夷) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from the ancestral form of the modern Sakhalin Ainu word enciw or enju, also meaning "human"; and Utari (ウタリ, Utari?) (meaning "comrade" in Ainu) is now preferred by some members. There are most likely over 150,000 Ainu today, however the exact figure is not known as many Ainu hide their origins or in many cases are not even aware of them, their parents having kept it from them so as to protect their children from racism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people
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NOVA Online - Island of the Spirits
A companion Web site to the NOVA program "Island of the Spirits," which leads viewers to Hokkaido, Japan, an otherworldly land of dense mountain forests, untamed creatures like the grizzly and wolf, and Japan's indigenous people, the Ainu. Here's what you'll find online:
Origins of the Ainu: Anthropologist Gary Crawford recalls how a phone call from a Japanese colleague triggered a sea change in his thinking about the origins of Hokkaido's aboriginal people.
Ainu Legends: The Ainu believe that the world rests on the back of a giant trout, that otters caused human beings to be flawed, and that seeing an owl fly across the face of the moon at night is cause for great trepidation. Find out why from missionary John Batchelor, who lived on Hokkaido for decades.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/hokkaido/
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Schauwecker's Guide to Japan - AINU
The Ainu are original inhabitants of Japan with a different cultural and racial background than the ethnic Japanese. According to some hypothesis, they are the descendants of Southern Mongoloid migrants who entered the Japanese islands before the Jomon period.
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2244.html
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The Ainu Museum
The Ainu Museum, popularly known as "Porotokotan" was established in 1976 as the Shiraoi Foundation for the Preservation of Ainu Culture. This cultural education facility aims to carry out comprehensive educational promotion projects, such as the transmission, preservation, research and study of Ainu culture.
http://www.ainu-museum.or.jp/english/english.html
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The Boone Collection - Image Gallery: Ainu Artifacts
The Boone Collection consists of over 3,500 East Asian artifacts gathered by Commander Gilbert E. Boone and his wife Katharine Phelps Boone. The Boones acquired most of these objects in the late 1950s, during a three-year tour of duty in Japan. As valuable as the Ainu collection at The Field Museum is, it has very rarely been on display or loaned to other institutions. Here, in the Boone Collection online exhibit, the history, crafts, and art of this culture can be brought freely to the general public; fostering a greater understanding of Japan and keeping in line with Katharine and Gilbert Boone's final wish.
The Ainu are generally considered to be the indigenous population of Japan. But, like all cultures on earth, the history of the Ainu is much more complex than any one label. The 20,000 to 60,000 people who presently identify themselves as Ainu are concentrated on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, but the Ainu culture once stretched up to the southern part of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands (now part of Russia).
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/anthropology/anthro_sites/boone/ainu/gal_jp_ainu.html
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The Foundation for Research and Promotion of Ainu Culture
Realizing a Society Where the Pride of Ainu People as an Ethnic Group is Respected and Contributing to the Promotion of Cultual Diversity in Japan.
http://www.frpac.or.jp/eng/
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