“Frost: Life and Culture of the Sami Reindeer People of Norway,” on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., is a display of striking photography and startling scholarship. This exhibit comes as Sami (Saami) activists are asserting their right to political autonomy and filing legal claims to large tracts of territory based on indigeneity. The Smithsonian archeologist Noel Broadbent is “helping the Sami people assert their unique identity” with a digging program called “Search for a Past.” His efforts are concretized by a helpful wall map of a purported thirteenth-century “Sami homeland … called Sampi or Samiland, which once occupied...

 

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