Reindeer

Throughout history, reindeer have played an important role as a source of food and clothing to many indigenous people. Native to the Artic, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia and North America, the reindeer, or caribou, are the only large scale successfully semi-domesticated deer in the world. In northern Scandinavia, the Sámi people have lived off reindeer herding for more than four centuries. Before that, they lived off hunting wild reindeer and fishing. Still today the animals constitute the pillar of their livelihood.