“What will you do when my people come for their land?”
- Rudolf and his fellow reindeers are always welcome around X-mas!
This magaqzine is put out by a Sa'ami or two in Alaska and the PAC NW. Some of the folks from Brown County Indiana moved up there back in the 1920s, and later on 1930s with a land settlement scheme sponsored by the New Deal.
Most of them belonged to Church of the First Born, so they set up a COTFB in North Pole, and a few other places around Alaska.
The reindeer deal came to fruition under FDR and a bunch of Sa'ami were sent over to teach Indians and Aleuts how to herd them.
Once the deal was over, and the Indians were trained, the government directed that non-Indians could no longer run reindeer on Indian and Eskimo and Aleut lands, so the Sa'ami had to go somewhere else. Some went to Seattle. Others stayed there.
Interestingly enough most of the Alaskan Sa'ami ended up living with my relatives from Brown County. Best I can tell there was a MINIMUM 140 year separation of the last guy to go from the Sapmai to Brown County and this meeting of Brown County Sa'ami descendants and new Sa'ami immigrants in mid-20th century Alaska.
Certainly no linguistic carryovers (except for Amaroogia and Brogalis)
No one had ever claimed any particular country in Europe as a place from which anyone had emigrated either.
Still, when given the opportunity, both Sa'ami and these people of the Sa'ami diaspora settled in the same places in Alaska and ended up doing the same stuff.
I think detailing this out would be worth a degree or two in anthropology.
Also might have something to do with folks working outdoors in winter not wearing gloves, or showing up at the doctor's office with the same unusual heartbeat, and I can think of some other stuff too.
BTW, that site you referenced is a pretty good place to start Sa'ami research. It intersects just about every other site on the net that has links to the rest of the stuff.
Put ‘em on a reservation like we did.