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And people still wonder where Santa Claus came from ~ and I don't mean the dude from Armenia or Greece ~ the original model with the red suit and fur trim, with a big bag ~ he even has a prototypical Sa'ami hat! He drives a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer (and you eat enough amanita muscaria like they do and you'll think you are flying).

Did you know those animals can do bursts of 75MPH and can run flat out for long distances at 65MPH.

Flying!

BTW, Laz, my interest in the Sa'ami started with a need to research a peculiar heart malady found in many of my relatives ~ I found it in a single tribe of Sa'ami ~ not all of them, just one (also associated with a type of porphyria) ~ the last white folks on Earth to be known up to modern times for making a living exclusively on reindeer.

The relatives get a relatively benign bit of surgery and it fixes the problem. There are several other marker genes but we don't need to go into them.

So, the way you get genes is from your ancestors, hence my hobby ~ and it's also proven invaluable in figuring out what is making the relatives sick and what the kids have to watch out for.

The Swedish medical establishment loves to study these guys ~ they are definitely adapted to the Arctic and have a pre-modern genome!

I think Renee Zelweiger, Kirsten Dunst and Pam Anderson are part of the same Skolt Sa'ami nation, but might be from the closely related Inari. The dude the future queen of Sweden married (her personal trainer) is also part of that crowd, as is Elin Nordgren (the now very rich former Mrs. Tiger Woods.

Just like to note that with the Skolt and Inari you really could do worse than marrying your cousins ~ much worse really ~