In the late 1890s, Sheldon Jackson had a well-intentioned idea: he would bring nearly 1300 reindeer and some Sami herders to teach the Native Alaskans how to care for and use the animals to provide a measure of food security.
Over 120 years later, there are still descendants of those Siberian reindeer in Alaska, and Sami and Native people have surprisingly similar stories of colonization.
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