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Formerly known as the Lapps, the Sami are believed to have originated in Central Asia and settled with their reindeer herds in Arctic Europe around 9,000 years ago.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

Then, to promote reciprocity, the Lapps presented His Majesty with a local costume, a hand-carved spear for wolf-hunting, a wooden bucket for reindeer-milking, a purse for Queen Louise.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Survivors of the Ice Age," the first of a two-part look at the Lapps, Europe's far-northern nomads.

From Time Magazine Archive

As far as Swedish Lapps are concerned, they specialize in Botany and use the Latin names for many plants.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some other Eurasian societies, notably the Central Asian pastoralists and the reindeer-herding Lapps and Samoyeds of the Arctic, had domestic animals but little or no agriculture.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond