1. Reindeer, also called caribou, are everything to the Nenets: their food, clothing, shelter, transportation, even their sense of identity.

2. Last year the Nenets, together with many thousands of reindeer, had to wait until late December when the ice was finally thick enough to cross.

3. Nenets boys play at lassoing each other—a game that may help them hone the skill for herding reindeer strays a few years hence.

4. Last year the Nenets arrived at a regular summer camping spot and discovered that half of their lake had disappeared.

5. Virtually all output products are sold in the Nenets Autonomous District.

6. A [ Nenets ] herder relies on the instincts of his lead reindeer.

7. A small community of Nenets hunters live nearby; otherwise there's nobody for a hundred kilometres.

8. The Nenets report other curious changes - fewer mosquitoes and a puzzling increase in gadflies.

9. Nenets men engage in a wrestling match at the annual spring festival in Yar Sale.

10. Myasoprodukty OJSC is a unique enterprise for the Nenets Autonomous District: this is the only enterprise of meat processing, primarily venison processing in the district.

11. There wasn't enough pasture, " Jakov Japtik, a Nenets reindeer herder, told the Guardian.

12. Traditionally the Nenets travel across the frozen Ob River in November and set up camp in the southern forests around Nadym.

13. For 1, 000 years the indigenous Nenets people have migrated along the Yamal peninsula.

14. After weathering 70 years of communism, the Nenets now face the challenge of a capitalist energy boom on the Russian tundra.

15. Nobody expects any of the billions of dollars generated by Yamal's stupendous gas reserves to go to the Nenets.Sentence dictionary

16. As the pent-up energy of spring fills the air, a Nenets family prepares to follow its reindeer into the Siberian high Arctic.

17. In thin forest just south of the tree line, a Nenets herder leads his reindeer across snow-covered pastures where lichens serve as winter fodder.