Normadic Herding-Sami
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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 ....
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.... 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 due to the close ties prevailing
between the members of the family. There is 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 seasona ....
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