Michelle Lawford, A Nomadic Life (PEOPLE 2026)

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After travelling 2 days by reindeer, Purvere helps to erect the family teepee, where they will spend the bitter winter. The nomadic Dhuka of the Taiga in Northern Mongolia, are devoted to their herds and move their teepees with the seasons, in search of arboreal lichen; the reindeer's only food source.

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