Abstract: The subject of this research is the processes that are currently taking place among the indigenous people of the North, Siberia, and Far East. The article explores the prospects of the Piotr Sztompka’s concept for the purpose of analyzing the modern ethnogenesis and culturogenesis of the indigenous people of the North and Siberia. From the position of this concept, the author analyzes various forms of reaction of the indigenous people of the North to the cultural traumas including: innovation, protest, ritualism, and reatreatism. A claim is made that these mechanisms are able to produce two possible scenarios of further development: aggravation of the traumatic situation or its effective overcoming. Based on the conducted research, a conclusion can be made that the diversity of ethnic communities that are referred to as indigenous, testifies to the complex unity of not only the society, but also the ethnoculture within these internal social groups, prolonged cultural trauma experienced by these people, and application of various methods in an attempt to cope with it.

Abstract: The subject of this study is the concept of "indigenous peoples". The author analyzes the different approaches to this concept, presented in a modern foreign and domestic research literature. The concept of "indigenous peoples" has a certain academic interpretations depending on how researchers understand the phenomenon of ethnicity. It is hypothesized that the concept of "indigenous peoples" changes its content and scope depending on the historical and cultural epoch, in relation to which it is viewed. Possible to identify the specific content of this concept in relation to the premodern, modern and postmodern. The author used the information obtained in the course of fieldwork in Tyukhtetsky District and Taimyr Dolgan-Nenets Municipal District (Krasnoyarsk Territory) in 2010-2014. For the analysis of the scope and content of the concept applied the methods of analytical review of research literature and conceptual analysis. Indigenous people is a sociological, cultural, ethnographic and ethnological term to refer to a local social community, which has geographic parameters and consolidated on the basis of ethnicity in the context of relations with the dominant ethnic group, nation; such a community has, as a rule, the historic colonial (neocolonial) experience and its reflection. The defining feature of this community is the property of indigenous recognized by the dominant ethnic group and the state, as the status of the ethnic groups, the first populated the territory of compact residence of its members, also in the legal field plays a leading role identity of its representatives. As the basis of ethnicity such social community act simultaneously two groups of features: a) objective evidence mainly detected within the ethnic group, the inherent limitations of its representatives and therefore perceived as his markers (race, language, territorial tightness); b) objectified through cultural signs signs ethnicity is constructed ethnicity of its representatives as subjective constructions mainly externally ("outside"), with detectable within the ethnic group, but embedded in this situation originating outside it. In modern conditions of such social communities internally heterogeneous, include a number of groups of indigenous people can be differentiated by the degree of replacement of the traditional way of life in their social and cultural practices, or as part of the social institutions of modern society.