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Normadic Herding-Sami


In the Lands of the Midnight Sun lives the Sami, formerly called the
Lapps by the Scandinavians, are the indigenous people of the far north of
Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. Their language is Finno-Ugric, related to
Finnish and Hungarian. The Sami people's traditional, semi-nomadic subsistence
ways include reindeer herding and fishing and hunting. Their clothing,
handicrafts and music are distinctive. The Sami are thought to descent from a
people who reached Finland after the end of the last Ice Age. When they got to
Finland, at first they occupied the southern parts of Finland, and from there,
started to migrate towards Lapland. Today there are more than 70,000 Sami, from
whom over ...

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a Sami Parliament spanning these
borders, which participates in the global indigenous peoples' movement at UN.
Reindeer has always been an important resource of food, clothing, tools
and other products to the Sami. They are milked at different stages of their
nomad's seasonal migration. The meat, fresh or preserved, is excellent, not
least because, so far as possible, it is obtained from selected animals which
are at their prime age (from 4 to 5 years) not, as with venison from wild deer,
when the hunter is able to bag his quarry. It is comparatively lean and
unusually rich in proteins and important vitamins. The tongue and marrowbones
are delicacies. The blood is used for gruel, pancakes and sausages. Other parts
are eaten fresh or preserved. The animal's own stomach is cleaned and used to
store food. It's intestines serve as sausage casings. One animal produces about
40-65kg of meat.
From the pelt they can get the finest natural cold-weather clothing
available. It is ...

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