Uma Saami Native Harvest Data Derived from Royal Swedish Taxation Records 1557-1614

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Wheelersburg, Robert P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1991
• Subjects: Animal mortality; Economic conditions; Fishes; History; Reindeer husbandry; Saami; Subsistence; Taxation; Trade and barter; Lapland; Sweden; Renne; Arctic; Lapons; Northern Sweden; reindeer husbandry; saami; renne
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64610

Royal tax records from 1557 to 1614 provide native harvest data for descriptive and quantitative analysis of the Saami (Lapp) reindeer hunting society in northern Sweden. The Saami made tax payments during the Scandinavian Late Middle Ages to Crown sheriffs in natural harvest products according to s...