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Essay Archive - Normadic Herding-Sami
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....
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