Everybody knows Santa’s sledge is pulled by reindeer, lives somewhere cold and even the Finns say he lives in Lapland.
In other words, Santa is a Sami. Just look at this http://www.visitnorway.com/ImageVault/Images/id_8233/conversionFormat_13/scope_0/ImageVaultHandler.aspx and deal with it.
The Sami people are the “Indians” of the North and they belong in the same group as Native Americans and Aboriginals. They live in Lapland, an area that stretches from north Norway over Sweden and Finland to Russia.
I would have liked there to be more characters in the comic, but I don’t have a lot of time to draw today, so this will have to do.
The Saami share very, very little East Asian ancestry with the Inuit, and that was from very late waves of invader/settlers. The Saami are not and never were the same as the First Peoples of America or the polar people of the Old World. They are a distinct group with strong Northern European Hunter-Gatherer ancestry mixed with Ancient North Eurasian, much like the rest of the Nordic areas. They only lack much of an Anatolian Early Farmer component (common in southern Europe) or the Caucasus Hunter Gatherer component that was a major part of the Indo-European peoples, who were Caucasus Hunter Gatherer, Northern European Hunter Gatherer, and Ancient North Eurasian with a small side order of Anatolian Early Farmer.
The Inuit and related groups of North America are racially distinct from other First Peoples, as well. They are quite late arrivals from Siberia, and they have a Han Chinese component that other First Peoples don't have. Other First Peoples are a mixture of Ancient North Eurasian and Early East Asian and are much more closely related to Polynesians and Taiwanese than to Han Chinese. The bits of these people who stayed in the Old World mixed heavily with the Northern Han at a later point, and that new Siberian people came and wiped out the existing First Peoples in the New World and spread across most of the northern latitudes to lightly--and I mean lightly--mix with the Saami people who were had been living in the polar regions for several thousand years.
@MarianneDos Thanks for the information.
I was wondering what was intended by "the same group as native american and aboriginals" as it doesn't seem like they could be somehow related.
@MarianneDos hey, I'm pretty sure that was just supposed to mean that Saami, just like Inuit and Native Americans, are the tribes that originally lived there before other (European) nations started to settle there. At least that is how I understood it. But thank you for the information, very interesting c:
@The_Yellow_Ardvark Aw dammit...
So the Eu is a farm. On of the cows said, "Screw it! I don't want to be milked anymore! And my whole family is leaving with me too!"
It seemed like a good idea for that one cow, even though it's family were very annoyed, until it realised that by stopping being milked, it had caught a disease, as that happens when you stop milking cows. The cows family started whispering to each other as how to best stay in the farm, but the big cow said No.
And this, my dear Americans is what happened in Brexit.
Technically, Turkey is historically correct. The character that most versions of Santa are based off of (Saint Nikolaus) was originally born in Turkey.
For consideration, when mailing letters to Santa, according to the Post Office in Canada, he DOES have an official address with Postal Code,
H0H 0H0. Nunavut is pretty vast and empty. Just the way Santa Claus wants you to think.
The Inuit and related groups of North America are racially distinct from other First Peoples, as well. They are quite late arrivals from Siberia, and they have a Han Chinese component that other First Peoples don't have. Other First Peoples are a mixture of Ancient North Eurasian and Early East Asian and are much more closely related to Polynesians and Taiwanese than to Han Chinese. The bits of these people who stayed in the Old World mixed heavily with the Northern Han at a later point, and that new Siberian people came and wiped out the existing First Peoples in the New World and spread across most of the northern latitudes to lightly--and I mean lightly--mix with the Saami people who were had been living in the polar regions for several thousand years.