Humanities & Social Sciences 9 (2016 9) 1945-1976 ~ ~ ~ УДК 304.444+82.091 Peculiarities of Indigenous Children’s Literature Maia G. Smolina* Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Received 07.04.2016, received in revised form 20.05.2016, accepted 20.07.2016 The article deals with the specificity of addressing children, reflection of the mythology and folklore, peculiarities of creativity of indigenous literature. <...> The review, analysis and comparison of the Khakass, Tuvinian, Nenets, Dolgan and Chukchi literature revealed typological features of children’s literature of the indigenous peoples of the north and the south of Russia. <...> It raises questions regarding language, writing and sacred texts. <...> On the one hand, literature in the national languages is important, on the other hand, it is important to find a way for the general reader. <...> The relation to ancient mythology, initiation rites, folklore and Soviet ideology that influenced the characteristics of children’s literature in many regions of the Russian Federation, become more set. <...> It is important to maintain the focus of children’s writers of national minorities on the reader notwithstanding their nationality, i.e. to use selected traditions of the world and Russian literature, while preserving the national identity as much as possible. <...> Advantages of indigenous literature will not only raise the national consciousness of the people, but will also serve as a form of Russian national identity, tolerance and environmental consciousness of the new generation. <...> Keywords: children’s literature, indigenous peoples of Siberia, Tuvinian literature, Nenets literature, Dolgan literature, initiation, folklore and literature, S.A. Saryg-Ool, Ch. <...> The article was written within the project “Development of the text corpus for children in native languages (Evenk, Nenets, Nganasan and Dolgan) as a way to preserve unique cultural heritage of small indigenous peoples of the Krasnoyarsk Krai” supported by Krasnoyarsk Regional Science Foundation. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: smomg@yandex.ru – 1945 – distinctive features that distinguish the people on the general background of Siberian indigenous peoples. <...> Children’s literature is an extremely important Maia G. Smolina. <...> Peculiarities of Indigenous Children’s Literature and powerful tool of forming national identity, which allows to raise self-consciousness of the people. <...> Therefore, it is <...>