Wild Jurchens

The Wild Jurchens (Chinese: 野人女真) or Haidong Jurchens (Chinese: 海東女真) were a group of the Tungusic peoples in Northeast Asia identified by the Ming dynasty as the northernmost of the three groups of Jurchen people (the other two being the Jianzhou Jurchens and Haixi Jurchens). In the 14th century, they inhabited the northernmost part of Greater Manchuria from the western side of the Greater Khingan Range to the Ussuri River and the lower Amur River bordered by the Tatar Strait and the Sea of Japan.

The descendants of Wild Jurchens do not identify themselves as Manchus. Instead, they formed different nations such as Nanai, Evenks, Negidals, Oroqen, and Nivkh.

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