AINU: Indigenous Peoples in Japan
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2017
- UN in Action Episode #1554
The Ainu, indigenous peoples in Japan, were once considered a dying ethnic group due to assimilation policies implemented by the Government. Today, efforts are being made to conserve the rich culture and language of the Ainu, including their traditional rituals, dance, crafts and music.
Hello CZcams community, I am an Ainu from Russia, Sakhalin. We are the native population of northern Japan and southeastern Siberia. We are descedants of the Northeast Asian Okhotsk and a paleolithic population from Central Asia which migrated to Japan more than 30,000 years ago. The Northeast Asian Okhotsk people were related to other Northeast Asians and Native Americans, while the paleolithic Central Asians are not closely related to any modern group. The paleolithic Central Asians contributed the "European-like look" as they share some genes with Europeans and Middle Easterners, but not all Ainu had such "European-like look". The majority always looked Northeast Asian or a mix of the two looks. The Ainu language and culture originated largely from the Northeast Asian Okhotsk people, thus we have many similarities to other Northeast Asians, Siberians and Native Americans. It is a misconception that all Ainu are hairy or look European. We do not. The majority of historical Ainu and of modern Ainu is similar to other people around the Sea of Okhotsk. Europeans exaggarated the "European" look among Ainu.
To sum up: We Ainu people came from the combination of the Northeast Asian Okhotsk culture and a paleolithic population which arrived from Central Asia. I am happy that other people are interested in the Ainu history, culture and people. Thank you. :)
This is amazing! Very interesting. Preserve your culture!
@Matthew Tenorio_3200654 The Sakhalin Ainu language was a own language/dialect, but today is sadly extinct. I am currently learning Hokkaido Ainu, as it is the last living Ainu dialect.
How is your life there? Would you rather live in Hokkaido?
Как к вам относятся люди
@@alexeimuraki3420 i thought Ainu culture was wiped out in Sakahalin along with the Sakahalin dialect? Is the the culture still being practiced?
I think it is fascinating how there are others very similar to the native Americans all the way on the other side of the globe. Also respect to Nintendo for the heavy Ainu tribute in Breath of the wild
What are the Ainu tributes in the game?
Stefano Andrianopoulos - I alway said native Americans look similar to Japanese/ Chinese - the same straight black hair
Ali Castro actually native americans originated in siberia about 10,000 years ago and slowly relocated in the americas so it makes sense that they’re genetically similar to mongolians/manchus/koreans/chinese/japanese and similar to indigenous groups in east asia in terms of their traditions and cultures
mao美 - Thankyou -I will do more research into this interesting subject
@@alicastro3777 we would be more related to the Ainu then the Japanese. The Japanese people are actually just Chinese people born in Japan similar to how modern Americans are just Europeans born in America
We Native Americans can relate to this. We are also taking our culture back now.
Youre native american 😅 but your name is english, fortunately same different in South America.
🤔
@@gabrielgarcia579 your name is literally European
@@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 my real name?
@@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 No it isn't. His name is Hispanic. He is Latino!
Greetings from mainland Siberia! I'm Sakha, we have the largest subnational governing body by area in the world and it's also our own autonomous Republic. I hope ainu and native americans will get their lands back and save their culture.
Esenlikler
greetings turk
too late now for ainus
Man, I haven't realized there were an Aboriginal Japanese people in Japan till I watch Golden Kamuy, since then I been really fascinated about them, as I'm an Aboriginal of Canada.
You Canadian native are not real native but you are from Siberia Russia and never forgot you from the Great Russia 👈 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
@@user-lh2yf9ch4k Yes I've heard of that. Makes it more fascinating.
@@2551987ezio yes it is ✌ 😍 also remember that when Catherine the great conquered Alaska she never killed any natives or destroyed any houses of natives
@@user-lh2yf9ch4k lol
What does aboriginal mean? Also, if you want to know of other indigenous people who were conquered or annexed by Japan, you should research about Okinawa. I’m Okinawan, and we were annexed by Japan and controlled by many countries, which caused us to loose most of our language and culture.
'Princess Mononoke' introduced me to the indigenous peoples of Japan.
Anna Wan - spirited away is my favourite
@@alicastro3777 Yes! It is an amazing film, love all Studio Ghibli films.
Princess monoke anime was confrontation between the japanese and the emishi in northern honshu
Anna Wan I’m literally watching that right now but I paused to watch this video
@@anm0543 😀😁💖💖💖👍
My classmate was Ainu. Her aura was so kind
Wonderful to see they are trying to preserve their own culture and language. Wish them all success.
Japanese samurai cut the Ainu to make sure their swords were sharp.
The Ainu are the descendants of the native northern Jōmon people. Most of their ancestors are linked to ancient southern Siberians. They also have links to some Native Americans on the northwest coast of Northern America, such as Tlingit. These ancient southern Siberians have Paleolithic ties to Caucasoid groups such as Arabs and Europeans, but got isolated since about 53,000 years ago in Siberia from where they migrated into ancient Japan and parts of America. They are present in Japan since about 40,000 years. According to genetic studies they form a unique isolated cluster but share still some DNA with Arctic populations in Eurasia and some Native American groups.
They are actually decendants from the Israelites as well as the Native Americans
@@kevinbarrera6985 😂
@@kevinbarrera6985 😂
They have haplo group D, one that's closest to the haplo groups shared by Nigerians (E) and the other one shared by Aboriginals (C) from Australia. They're more African than Siberian.
@@SneakerSamurai no
I hope the beautiful cultural heritage and language of the Ainu can remain alive for years to come.
I hope most of the Ainu would survive COVID-19.
😔
🙏
There were only 100 Ainu speaking people in Japan in 2019, according to one study. Even if that's a significant underestimate, that still means it was at risk of becoming a dead language. Most of the people who still spoke Ainu were extremely elderly, so they were certainly at risk. However, thankfully, there has been a huge movement to save the Ainu language since 2019, and the manga/anime "Golden Kamuy" has helped the Ainu benefit from increased tourism from fans of the series, especially young people.
My grandfather is Ainu from Hokkaido Japan. I am proud of him.
This is what I think about Ainu people. People have Ainu grandparents but they mixed with Japanese people and their grandchildren are Japanese. Most of the so-called Ainu people today look and sound Japanese. I think the Ainu people are gone now.
Do you speak ainu?
Hi! I am conducting a study on Indigeous languages of Japan, and desperately looking for Ainu participants, is there any chance that your grandfather or maybe your parent would like to answer it? It is a 10 min survey in japanese, but I can provide the list of questions in english too.
I knew about the Ainu culture because of the anime Golden Kamuy.
Hinna-hinna.
Btw, their ending soundtrack is so sick! I love it. ❤
I love Asirpa since of this
That anime made me interested in ainu culture
pp
In the story they just took their women while the Ainu didn’t get a japanese woman.
@@satanichiamcdowell6298 same
Indigenous people all over the world stand with the Ainu and all other indigenous communities whose way of life is under threat of disappearing. Don't give up the fight to retain, maintain and sustain your indigenous heritage, knowledge and wisdom. I truly believe there will be a time in the future when the world will need us, for we are the last guardians of the earth's soul.
Japan need to respect the Ainu more.
These days they do
I'm Japanese. Japanese are trying to preserve Ainu culture.
In Japan there are no Ainu anymore, who are native Ainu speaker.
There are only Ainu-Japanese mixed people, who are native Japanese speaker.
@@morisoba2550 that's because your government didn't respect the ainu my ancestors did the same to the native Americans. たとえ彼らが混ざっていても、存在しないアイヌをして彼らの存在を軽視するのをやめる。 それは不快でほとんど失礼です。believe me if I told a half Seminole here in Florida he want a Seminole because he was mixed he'd likely feed me to the nearest alligator.
@@jean-lucpicard3012
Hundred years ago or before Japanese would discriminate Ainu, but it has changed today. Ironically when Japanese recognize Ainu is precious a part of Japan, Ainu people have been already assimilated into Japanese culture. There are hundreds thousands Ainu mixed Japanese but appearance-wise they are not different from Japanese anymore. By the way, Ainu are probably genetically close to native Americans.
@@morisoba2550you're still completely ignoring your government just like mine fought to eradicate them, their decedent's are still valid when they claim that they're heritage regardless of your governments attempts to dispel that fact.. my government is no less guilty
golden kamuy brought me here.
LMAO same..
Same😂😂
hinna hinna... 😂
haha same
Same here
From Africa to Asia, the Americas, West Indies and Australia, native/tribal/indigenous/First Nations people have so many similarities; the way they connect with the land, live with a respect for God, and fight to preserve the culture seems like they are always so persecuted.
Even europeans had a native group known as celts and basques ... their culture is very different from the modern, european, christian culture
@@sruthi671 celts weren’t really too indigenous but still very indigenous.
The basques are 100% indigenous to europe, since they are the last remnants of the old europeans.
There are also the sámi of Northern Europe who are recognized as the only indigenous people in Europe by the EU
Great words bro, as an indigenous i would say your totally right baut how we connect with the land n God ✌
@@a.v.j5664 by those standards the American natives aren't indigenous either
@@sruthi671 Todavía los tienen ,además de los Samis este grupo Europeos es Monada ,los otros grupos nativos Europeos también existen solo que ya no son monadas ,los Celtas los la gente de hoy en Irlanda, Escocia, España ,Francia ,los Vascos son la gente de país Vasco España y Sur de Francia ,en España se dieron otros grupos nativos como Iberos y celtiberos que son la gente Española y Portuguesa actual .También están los pueblos nativos del Cáucaso Euroepos nativos que ya no son nómadas pero guardan su cultura .
Ainu culture, language so beautiful I respect your culture. I haven’t heard about Ainu indigenous japan before . Ainu people so beautiful . I’m Montagnards indigenous Central highland of Vietnam we facing many problems with Vietnamese government today .
Jacobe Ksor really cool good luck to you
The Ainous is a particular people, a fantastic history; suppressed by Japanese, their number does not exceed 6000 people these days.
The Japanese are so nice with them that they built a Museum to relate their history, just like red Indians in America.
I am reading a book (in French) intituled :
« Un voyage chez les Aïnous, Hokkaido-1938 », by Arlette et André LEROI-GOURHAN, edit. Albin Michel, Paris, 1989.
I borrowed this interesting book from the Japanese Cultural Centre Library in Paris:
パリ日本文化会館,
Thanks for this informative video.
Japanese is a nationality not an ethnic group. The predominent ethnic group in Japan is Yamato.
The history department of culture and language are doing a noble job in preserving the ainu native tribes and also letting the masses to realize about their true ancestors
Subtitles say there are a small number of Ainu people that speak the language, and are making an effort to spread the language, the actual footage shows them speaking Japanese and singing about the Ainu people in Japanese.
En Rusia también hay nativos Ainu
It's incredible to see the strikling resemblance of the Ainu and the Northwest people and all the way down to the tip of the South American cone. Shows the world is much smaller than we think and need to cheerish and preserve all cultural heritages.
The problem is not that these people are hated, no one does. It's the fact that no one knows them.
They remind me a lot like Native American Indians.
yes, autosomal DNA show that our next relatives are native americans and siberians, also tibetans and japanese
Yes I'm trying to research our Asian ancestors and I keep coming up with the Ainu people
If you look it up enough.
Just about every country has indiginous people like this.
All have chant like singing.
All have drums of some sort.
All have spiritual sacred ceremonies.
And all concoured and converted to the bible in a horrible way..
True religion. Makes you think they must all have some kind of power that the ones who control everything are afraid of
Your Dan's Children or Dangun and relatives of the Danae or Navajo and Pueblo Peoples.
@@skibb4241 ummm No not all indigenous peoples have been converted to Christianity. Like ones in China, Korea, and japan
I see comments about _Golden Kamuy..._
What about _Princess Mononoke_ and the Emishi featured early on?
I've watched both. People talk about Golden Kamui cuz this video is about Ainus. Ainus are still here unlike Emishi
i think, they similiarly look like a Malayu People from Malaysia and Indonesia. The Tradition and language look like Batak, Dayak and Nias Indigenous People of Indonesian.
@Youssef Houaoui are you familiar with indonesia?
@Youssef Houaoui
Tibetans are genetically, historically and linguistically closely related to the Chinese more so than the Ainu or the Japanese. In fact both the Tibetan and Chinese language belongs to the same language family (Sino-Tibetan) which suggests they were originally a single ethnic group which split up. The Tibetans who went west onto the Tibetan Plateau mixed with the original local inhabitants of the region who were genetically Y-DNA Haplogroup D much like the Ainu and formed today's Tibetans. But otherwise the Chinese peoples' Haplogroup O3a2c1a-M117 is a direct mutation of the Tibeto-Burman peoples' Haplogroup O3a2c1-M134. Tibetan people have both Haplogroup O3a2c1-M134 and D as their dominant haplogroups.
Batak and Dayak words have same meanings in Turkish language wow
@@zenzenitha well, this thing on 1:38 also existed in Indonesia as well.
Yeah, That communal dance and red-white-black themed garments the Ainus showed in the first minutes of the video reminds me of Batak's custom too.
Maybe it's typical pattern that'd be born in the culture of isolated tribes.
Even myself as a Native American man I loved japans culture and their cartoons of anime great to see my people going there
Wooow! such a beautiful culture!! massive respect from japan! I live in Honshu, japan but I wanna go to hokkaido someday!
I learned about this beautiful culture thanks to Shaman King back in 2001!
Horohoro
thank you golden kamuy, for educating me about this cultures
Yamato and Ainu is absolutely different ethinic group.
Distant relatives
Jin Sunazawa is an Ainu himself, but he is opposing this movement. He says several ethnic groups with different languages were artificially grouped together by leftists to form the Ainu movement. Leftists used them in their propaganda to receive public funds. He is concerned that people may use this privilege since you don't need to provide a DNA test to prove you are actually an Ainu.
What is yamato people? I'm persian , l love to know about another people and ethnic-tribes in the world !
@@fvckoff2698 you mean that the Japanese are ethically Korean (or close to them) ?
@@fvckoff2698 you mean that Japanese are different from Korean people genetically? I don't think so ... Although meybe there's a little differences in their genome , but totally East-northern Asians are the same ethnic groups .
In NZ it’s the schools from kindergarten to university which teach exclusively in the Māori language through the lens of our Māori worldview which is having the greatest impact in the revitalisation of local dialects and local traditions and intergenerational knowledge. If you have your own language you have your own world which is very difficult to infiltrate and in your own world you have your own priorities and set your own standards. Its a step closer to sovereignty
4:33 oww. always kinda hurts to see recent videos out of Japan talking about the coming 2020 olympics. it would've been great I'm sure, hopefully things get better next year
True, I hope so too brotha
The struggle of the Ainu remind me so much of the struggle of natives from the Americas
Okay, yes I knew of Ainu from anime too but not from Golden Kamuy, I knew bout them from Shaman King :)
This is amazing, had no idea
Preservation & heightened awareness/dignity of small cultures within a larger culture are occurring around the world. Pride in one's heritage is important to a persons personal ego. Just like Native Americans, Irish Celts, and Native Hawaiians before them I applaud each group for exposing violence, language manipulation, genocide and group domination. I hope the proud Ainu's can revive their language. The hope is within the young.
The story of Ainu in Japan is intriguing to me as my mother comes from Ainu in middle Nigeria. Ainu in Nigeria is a clan among the Igede speaking people in Benue State Nigeria. Is this an accident to have the Ainu Japan story and a thriving Ainu people in Nigeria? It is worth investigating
Truly a interesting culture
人間が進歩して行くと先人達が生きてきたこの地球の事を再学習するようになって、今更ながらその先人達の生きる知恵や技術に驚嘆することが多くなるそうです、世界の先住民といわれる人々が置いてけぼりを感じるような世の中ではまだその国は進歩していないということです、私も日本人としてアイヌの伝統文化や知恵を学ぶと、すごいなと感じる事が多くてなぜそのことを今まで知らなかったかと反省もするんです。カナダの博物館で、アメリカの博物館で、見た先住民コーナーは充実していました。
Does anyone know any good books about Ainu culture ?
I love how there is more attention to the ainu, it is unique and very beautiful
" This is the punishment from mother nature "- Nakoruru
Golden kamuy brought me here. Citatap, osoma and hinna, lol. Love the way their respect for nature was described in the manga.
Ainu came from Central Asia and are distant relatives (50k~) of the Caucasoid groups that would later move to Europe.
They have recently mixed with the modern Japanese population following globalization and the end of isolation and separation.
they are not caucasoid lol
Should I go to Japan I want to see the Ainu culture.
1:19: The traditional chanting, the face, reminds me to the chanting and face of Apache or Chinook or indigenous people of the US. The attire they wear reminds me to the attire of Dayak people in Borneo so do native people in Northern of Philippine.
The Ainu fashion is one of the most beautiful in all human civilization
The garment she is displaying at 1:42 reminds me of some of the Haida Indian designs from coastal BC Canada.
Is the intro song ainu music?
What's the difference between Ainu and the other Japanese ethnicities?
I'm not Japanese, but from what I read, the Ainu are the original people of Japan whose ancestry traces back to the prehistoric Jomon period. The majority today is Yayoi group of people with Chinese and Korean influence.
Clothes from Ainu people, certenly reminds me of my country rainforest people.
surprisingly samurai champloo introduced me to japan indigenous ppl.
cheers from Korea
I had the pleasure of being in Hokkaido in 2019 and visited the museum of the ainu and nivkh people. Very sad history from both the Japanese and Russians. Sadly most are only genetically loosely related due to mixing over time however nice to learn the culture is being preserved in some way!
The girl at 4:11 looks familiar to me. I'm from Mexico's highlands.
nanotektor Yeah Ainu have high Siberian dna and Native Americans migrated from Siberia, also Mexicans are mixed with Europeans and Ainu have Western Eurasian blood so maybe she can look Mexican because of that
@@abbad707 yes
@@abbad707 they don't have any western blood😅😅😅.
The Ainu people are the real origins of Japanese people.
@Youssef Houaoui no, the current ethnic Japanese people are descendants of Han chinese who migrated from mainland China thousands of years ago but they have intermix with indigenous people of Japan such as the Ainu
Jin Sunazawa is an Ainu himself, but he is opposing this movement. He says several ethnic groups with different languages were artificially grouped together by leftists to form the Ainu movement. Leftists used them in their propaganda to receive public funds. He is concerned that people may use this privilege since you don't need to provide a DNA test to prove you are actually an Ainu.
Both of Aine and Yamato people are original Japanese because they has been living together.
We Japanese has never done for Aine something like the white has been doing for native american.
@@Emsyaz pry to Uyghur
@@Emsyaz The Japanese are not descended from Han Chinese. The Chinese and Japanese languages are not related. The Japanese are descended from people (the Yayoi) similar/related to the Koreans, who migrated from Korea about 2,600 years ago and mixed with the indigenous Jomon people of Japan. Japanese people are mixed Yayoi/Jomon (mostly Yayoi) and the Ainu are traditionally mostly Jomon (some are also mixed with recent northest Siberian and/or Japanese).
Very educational vid. This info was very new to me, thank you.
These Beautiful people deserve more respect
They are similar to head hunter tribe in Borneo Island.,are they have connections? Their custom are familiar to me.
Hello, it is a common misconception that all Ainu looked "Caucasian" or were very hairy. There were always many Ainu which looked typically Northeast Asian or like Inuit (long before we Japanese arrived in Hokkaido). The Ainu language itself descended from the Okhotsk culture and people which looked like Itelmens or Yakuts. Ainu history is very complex and for the sake of respect, it should be noted that the people speaking proto-Ainu and the Ainu culture largely originated from the Okhotsk, which were related to other Northeast Asians and eastern Siberians. Also, is is a common misconception that all Ainu have haplogroup D. Southern Ainu have it predominantly at 75%, while northern Hokkaido Ainu have more C (the same clade as Athabaskans in northern America).
If you see Ainu looking east Asian its becos they're no longer pure and even the "pure" Ainu you see here are heavily mixed Japanese/Korean.
The original Ainu is similar looking to Native Americans.
They were never any doubt that they're Asian but not the same group as the Japanese or Koreans.
They are nomads and have thousands of years of history and lived off the lands and are displaced people that will one day be assimilated completely and ceased to exist.
@@zlonewolfyou talk out your arse, all natives have East Asian blood, ALL. That’s why so many natives look Chinese. I say again, ALL natives have East Asian blood.
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا ۚ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ
Wahai manusia! Sesungguhnya kami telah menciptakan kalian menjadi laki-laki dan perempuan, dan (dengan menciptakan manusia berpasangan) kami telah jadikan kalian berbangsa-bangsa dan bersuku-suku agar kalian saling mengenal. Sesungguhnya yang paling bertakwa diantara kalian di sisi Allah adalah yang paling bertakwa. Sesungguhnya Allah Maha Mengetahui, Mahateliti
Golden Kamuy forced me to search about Ainu and to know more about them
Save the tai culture. A request from assam, india. Ainu are tai people. Aigatogozaimash'u🙏
Ainu is love. Never give up on you.
Here after reading golden kamuy....
Pretty good culture....
LONG LIVE AINU and all indigeneous tribe around the world ,
Ainu culture is very beautiful.
i'm literally here because if Golden Kamuy. you should give credit to the mangaka, he's totally saving you.
Long live their culture
I hope some Day their land give back to them
Amazing the similarities to pacific american tribes. It seems impossible that people could conserve their culture and traditions for what must have been more than 50k years! Look at todays world and we can barely remember what our grandparents went through....
Ainu truly are a interesting people.
Nakoruru brought me here
i cant explain exactly why but i cried watching this
The Ainu and their ancestors the Jomon people are the native Japanese. They originated somewhere in modern Central-Asia.
The Japanese scientist specialist in Biological Anthropology Noriko Seguchi of the Kyushu University claims that the Jomon people were a proto-Caucasoid people that originated in Central-Asia or Siberia.
Newest genetic studies (since 2017) conclude that the Jomon are the last descedants of an unique group of ancient people. The study suggests an ancient origin in modern Central Asia.
Its amazing how European they look. I'd look at the last girl and think she's a Westerner who grew up in Japan.
They look like a cross between Siberian and West Asian/Caucasian. Ancient relation that goes back to the Pleistocene.
Actually looks like a typical, prettish Mexican girl from central Mexico (San Luis Potosí)
For me, she looks like a lightskin australian aboriginal or indigenous taiwanese . I don’t see any European in her.
@@mehmeh7052 stop claim
they were so called black not caucasoid
I respect ainu culture
It makes me sad to see a indigenous culture loosing there ways, and one of my indigenous cultures are extinct now cause they've lost the language and been killed off and taken as slaves by there own relatives, I come from both of them, the extinct one, and its relatives, so I guess I'm saying I hate loosing a indigenous culture cause it links us to a spiritual connection to our ancestors.
Is Maori a dying culture?
@@boxbird5723 yes
They deserve respect.
Horohoro from Shaman King is an Ainu.
They remind me of famous japanese singer kiyohiko ozaki
Ainus probably have very distant relation with Eastern Siberian nations.
We all Japanese should be having the Aninu Calture as part of Japanese and keep it.
Como la van a mantener si total los Japoneses Mongolicos asesinaron al pueblo nativo de Japón los Ainu tenían rasgos europeos no mongolicos ,los que tienen rasgos mongolicos ya son Ainus mezclados.
Is this the Ainu republic?
Ainu's are better treated now then they use to be
I'm here because of adventures of Ashirpa and Sugimoto.
This people need more respect :)
They have the same tone like Uchinaguchi 😮
I wish them the best in this crusade of theirs,
Their mouth tattoos are awesome!
Interesting
We should all revert back to the Indigenous way of life.
True, its healthier to our body, mind and spirit.
True nature
@@Emsyaz if it were healthier, we would've had longer lifespans than back then. But we didn't.
@@Alex-mc5yn Longer lifespan doesnt indicate healthier life.
Many people now suffer from chronic diseases and mental health issues.
Then what do you think is the indicator? Just because people didn't know the names and treatments for these illnesses or didn't live long enough to get them doesn't mean they were healthier. Modern medicine improves the quality of life for people with chronic illnesses. It also cures or prevents the transmittable diseases, including the ones that wiped out so many indigenous people.
Mental illnesses were first described and attempted to be treated over 8 thousand years ago. There are preserved papyri in which ancient Egyptians have described mental disorders, this is not a recent development. These same papyri described several chronic illnesses. In fact, one of them, arthritis was the most common aliment in ancient people, and yes, in indigenous people as well.
It is obvious that the Japanese government in period 1870s wanted a homogenous nation - united under a single banner, to ensure its stability for years to come. For that though, there was no need to destroy Ainu culture. They should have let the Ainu preserve their traditional way of living, with open offers of free will to integrate into much more sofisticated Japanese society. In that sense, by keeping friendly relations with the Ainu - they would also keep the homogenosity of the nation. That is maybe a more complex way of handling with indigenous population, but certainly a more humane. For the danger of Ainu wanting independence, I believe there would be not - as long as the Ainu look at Japan as also their home and their nation, not their colonizers.
Golden Kamuy brought me here--to home.
indigenous in Japan ×
indigenous in Hokkaido ○
Do not mislead
They're Dangun People related to Ancient Pueblo and Navajo Danae Indians.
There is a lot of similarities here between these people and indigenous people from the NW coastal areas of North America. Looks like they had the long houses and similar dress....the only things missing are the whaling culture and totem poles it seems.
Ainus do have the tradition of whaling and totem poles
Well ainu are indigenous people of Hokkaido island of Japan not of entire Japan because Japan is a island nation.
The group of people migrate first to a specific place are indigenous of that land . Yamato people were first to migrate in southern islands of Japan.
If you dont fight for your land and your culture, you will soon end up lost in time.