The Sami people live with reindeer and their expertise is being drawn on in the cull.

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And one night we saw how central the reindeer are to the lives of the Sami people.

BBC: Threat to life on Arctic frontline

Known commonly as the ski-doo, it first appeared on the Finnish market in 1962 and the Sami people used them to revolutionise reindeer herding.

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Today, sleds of visitors are pulled through birch forest in the same way that goods were transported from the summer to winter feeding grounds of the semi-nomadic Sami people.

BBC: Finland��s native S��mi adventures

Nordin created the first backpack in an effort to find a lighter solution for his hikes through the Swedish forest and used the native Sami people to test his new lighter wooden frame.

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The connection between the Sami people and their reindeer has been about survival in a hostile land and it runs very deep: there is a legacy lasting millennia of living together in the polar North.

BBC: Threat to life on Arctic frontline

Wimme, a member of the nomadic Sami, or Lapp, people, has made an art form of their joik singing style.

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The Finnish researchers studied a population of people, called Sami, who lived in northern Scandinavia from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

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Turkey might look a little more ripe for investments in 2011 when people like Mehmet Sami, executive board member of securities firm Ata Invest, anticipate that it will become an investment grade country.

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The reindeer play a central role in the livelihoods and culture of the indigenous people of the region, the Sami, but this way of life is under pressure, as I saw on a journey in northern Norway earlier this month.

BBC: Threat to life on Arctic frontline