Cultural Survival

One problem that the Yakut people face is that modern development is affecting their culture. It has come up that people may be trying to change their ethnocultural traditions in order to get them more into the modern world. In the seventeenth century, Yakutia was contacted and annexed by Russia, and during the eighteenth century, the area served as a transit camp and highway for freight to newly-annexed Siberian lands. After building the culture back up they like the way that it is. Although they do have some things modernized, they like to stay traditional. With a population as big as theirs, it is somewhat of a majority ruling that makes it "acceptable" for them for stay with tradition. 
For the most part, the Yakuts continue to rely on their own resources and means of survival by hunting, fishing, and breeding.