What can you tell me about the Ainu people?

>>495839
Isn't the difference between the japs and the ainu pretty much artifical?

>>495856
No wait, confused them with another japanese minority

>>495839
Japan's Natives. Treated similarly as Canada's First Nations people. Japan has made great attempts at assimilation because "One Japan, One Race" mentality.

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>>495839
I have a very good article by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
that discusses the different tribes and cultures within the Ainu. Basically they are indigenous peoples to japan in the north. For a while the occupied most of the northern portion of the mainland(honshu) as well as the other large more northern island, Hokkaido.

>>495920
I can't really post it online though since I don't have an adobe account. It's from Jstor database.

>>495870
>Treated similarly as Canada's First Nations people.

Canada at least acknowledges them.

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>>495856
The difference between Yamato and Ryukyuans are not artificial, if that's the other minority you're referring to.

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>>495839
all i know is that they are the indigenous people of japan

and since im a pole i know that Bronislaw Pilsudzki did research about them and even has a monument in japan

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>>496251
>monument in japan

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>>495839
Emishi Alphas > Ainu Betalords

>>496258
>>496251
>WE WUZ AINUS AN SHEET

>>495839
They were great musicians, they helped the song of creation and shaped the world.