"The Same Nature as the Reindeer": Johan Turi's Portrayal of Sámi Knowledge

[...]that which pertains to skiing and running is part of their being.) JOHAN TURI, secure in his identity as a Sámi, confident in his experiences as a sometime herder, healer, wolf hunter, son of a teacher, and godson of a minister, assumed in his Muitalus sdmiid birra the authority to give an account of Sámi culture to the wide world. [...]I argue, knowledge for Turi is the life-blood of Sámi culture, without which the Sámi way of being would be irreparably lost. In so doing, of course, Turi also helped preserve that knowledge, fixing it in a textual form that can still be read and appreciated a century later as a record of Sámi traditions and as a snap-shot of Sámi cultural life in one part of Sápmi at the beginning of the twentieth century.