On Civilizing the Nogais
“On Civilizing the Nogais”: Mennonite-Nogai Economic Relations, 1825-1860 JOHN R. STAPLES* Abstract: Mennonites lived alongsideNogais-semi-nomadic Tatar pastoralists-in the Molochna region of southernUkraine from 1803, when Mennonites first arrived, until 1860, when theNogais departed. In Menno-nite