Dahinien Gendānu
Dahinien Gendānu, also Daxinnieni Geldanu (c. 1926–1984), was an Uilta activist from Sakhalin. Life

Gendānu was the adopted son of Dahinien Gorgolo, an Uilta shaman. Like most members of his people at the time, he was unclear on his exact year of birth. In his childhood, his home village of Otasu was ruled as part of the Karafuto Prefecture of the Japanese Empire. He received the Japanese name Kitagawa Gentaro. After the surrender of Japan ended World War II, he was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in the Soviet Union for seven years. Following his release, he migrated to Japan in 1955. However, his requests for a pension were denied because of the Japanese government's position that Uilta and Nivkh people from Sakhalin were ineligible for armed service and had been illegally recruited. He died in 1984 without pension or compensation from the Japanese government. Legacy
In Abashiri, Hokkaidō, Gendānu established a museum of the indigenous peoples of Sakhalin, the Jakka Dukhuni, meaning "keeping place of treasures". His autobiography was published in 1978, in collaboration with Ryō Tanaka, a high school teacher in Abashiri. His niece Lyuba Nakagawa  had remained on Sakhalin. In 1995, she visited Tokyo as an emissary to request Japanese government assistance in constructing a memorial to Uilta war dead, as well as other compensation and support; however, she received no response. Tanaka would go on to become the president of the Uilta Kyokai, the Uilta rights association which Gendānu founded. The Uilta language data elicited from Gendānu and his father by Fumio Koizumi would form the basis of later linguistic studies by Shirō Ikegami and Toshirō Shimagari. Works

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 Reprinted with permission by Hokkaidō Education Committee. Sponsored by Monbu Kagakushō Kagaku Kenkyūhi Hojokin "Tokutei Ryōiki Kenkyū (Project A2-013). External links
Uilta vocabulary elicited from Dahinien Gendanu and Dahinien Gorgolo in February 1968 by Koizumi Fumio (小泉文夫)
Uilta Kyokai, an association founded by Gendānu in 1975
ゲンダーヌは、市他所の世話で鉄工所で働いた。

1920s births
1984 deaths
Japanese prisoners of war
Orok people
People from Sakhalin Oblast
World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union