Sami and The Reindeer

The Sami are Norway’s indigenous nomadic people. Traditionally, they were reindeer herders, and still today many keep reindeer. In fact, all free-roaming reindeer in Norway are owned by Sami families. Reindeer are usually free-roaming, the ones we visited are an exception: the Sami guy looking after them realized that too many do not survive the winter in the wild due to predators. Nowadays, he uses proceeds from excursions for food.Read more