Shamanism - it is the early form of the religious idea, based on representation about supernatural dialogue of the cult-maker - Shaman - with spirits during the special ritual.
  Lamaism - it is the form of Buddhism (Buddhism is one of three world religions together with Christianity and Islam).

Nowadays in Siberia more than one hundred peoples live. Someone lived here always, and someone (for example, Russians) lived here not for a long time. It is accepted to name the peoples, lived in Siberia since an ancient time, as the indigenous peoples. For example, earlier in the Western Siberia the Ugry lived who were the ancestors of the modern peoples Khanty and Mansi. The relatives of them were Hungarians, who since an ancient time moved to Europe. Ancestors of the peoples in the Southern Siberia (Tartars, Altaic people and Shorci) were Turks, once created Great Turk Kaganat (the first Siberian state). In the 18-th century  indigenous peoples of Siberia occupied those territories, where they lived nowadays. Now peoples, which have moved here later, - Russian, Ukrainian, Poles, Byelorussians and others, also live here.