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"I thought that the original Santa Claus was Sa’ami."

Yup, he is.

muawiyah will be along shortly to tell you about the mushrooms and flying reindeer of our ancestors.

Pagan and Sami Roots of Today’s Santa Claus Myths

Santa (not his real name which is, properly translated, "Little Red Man") is a dwarf. His outfit is traditionally Sa'ami in style and color. He spends all year long at the North Pole (or close enough for government work) making tree ornaments, kitchen implements, and so forth ~ and baskets, don't forget the baskets. These are sold to the newcomers (Indo-European speakers) for hard cash.

When he's not busy with making crafts for gifts he's tending to his reindeer. He has several tame reindeer, and from time to time he is called upon to tend to the sick or sad, so he trudges across the snow, finds the buried tent, and drops down through the smoke-hole.

For a good time in his Arctic landscape that has neither grapes nor wheat, no wine and no beer, he may dabble in Amanita Muscaria, which is mildly hallucinogenic in this part of the world. His pet reindeer may join him and eat large quantities of this precious mushroom, get high as a kite, and find themselves rolling their eyes too and fro as they get the sensation that they are flying ~ as does Little Red Man himself.

Christianity has been trying to glom onto this Sa'ami archtypal image for most of a thousand years.