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These Indigenous Reindeer Herders Are Fighting for the Right to Their Ancestral Lands
In the face of decades of cultural erasure, the Sámi women are striving to keep their culture, language, and livelihoods alive. Dec 22, 2020
In northern Europe, where winter temperatures hover between -13 and -22 degrees Fahrenheit, reindeer roam an ancient pine forest that’s blanketed by snow. That might sound like a fantastical scene from a snow globe, but for the Sámi people, the Indigenous inhabitants of Arctic Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula in Russia, this is home. The expansive region, known as Sápmi, is their ancestral land and herding reindeer there has been a form of survival for them since the prehistoric era.