Normadic Herding- Sami

        In the Lands of the Midnight Sun lives the Sami, formerly called the Lapps by the Scandinavians, ar the natural people of the far north of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. Their langu time is Finno-Ugric, related to Finnish and Hungarian. The Sami peoples traditional, semi-nomadic subsistence ways include reindeer herding and fishing and hunting. Their clothing, handicrafts and music ar distinctive. The Sami are thought to descent from a people who reached Finland later the end of the last Ice Age. When they got to Finland, at first they work the southern parts of Finland, and from there, started to migrate towards Lapland. Today there are more than 70,000 Sami, from whom over 40,000 live in Norway, Sweden up to 25,000, in Finland 6,000 and in Russia 2,000. In Finland the birth-rate amongst Sami is slightly above the average for the soil in general, while there are no marked differences in the death-rate. At the same time, the average size of family is in truth much higher in the case of Sami, 5,7 persons as compared for 3,8 for the Finns, partly as a consequence of the high birth-rate and partly refer subject to the close ties prevailing between the members of the family. There is a Sami fan tan spanning these borders, which participates in the global indigenous peoples movement at UN.

Reindeer has ever so been an important resource of food, clothing, tools and other products to the Sami. They are milked at polar stages of their nomads 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...

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