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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

The reindeer run around in frightened herds and the Lapps walk among them, trying not to get trampled and swinging their lassos .

From Time Magazine Archive

Raising herds of reindeer is almost the sole business of nomad Lapps.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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