History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990

This book may well be the very best history of the native peoples of Siberia and their conquest by the Russians in the past centuries.Though the title is exaggrating a bit - with Siberia today having an overwhelmingly Russian majority population I don't find it more of a "colony" than the USA, Canada, or Australia, where natives have been even more outnumbered by European settlers - the book itself is very thoroughly-researched, amazingly up to date and is even fair enough to compare the current situation of the Siberian peoples to that of Northern minorities elsewhere.No doubt, it is a somewhat disturbing read - but then so is the situation of these often diminishing ethinc groups even today.