Some of the Saami kids we talked to for the Scandinavian Natives issue got to take their artwork on tour - from Gällivare to Stockholm's International Museum of Kids' Art. The show opened a few days ago and here are some of the things they had to say about their art and stuff …Niklas: "I've never driven a snow scooter. I'm only 14. I'll be 15 next year, which means I can get granted exemption, so I'll be able to drive one. I'll apply for it this autumn, and I'll have it for the winter in time for when we move the reindeers."Once when we were moving the reindeers and we were up in the helicopter, my cousin started feeling queasy. So the pilot gave him his cap and went, "If you need to puke, puke in this." And my cousin puked in his cap. Then they threw it out the window."Marja-Susanna: "Niklas and me are third cousins. We have our reindeers in the same area, but they're not together. I stay in a big house during the summer, Niklas has a tiny house that looks like a tent, in which maybe five people live."We made a slideshow with pictures from when we moved the reindeers, and we recorded the sound of the reindeers' hooves. But right in the middle of the recording you can hear Sanni go, "Hey Niklas, are so proud of your iPod you need to show it off like that?" So we'll have to do it over … "Sanna-Marja: "That old woman I drew from a photograph. It's not anyone I know, it was just a picture. I guess I could go on studying or working with art. It beats math."During the summer my family and me live in our tent, but I prefer living in the city. And I hate fishing, I've never even caught a fish. Oh, actually once I really did catch a fish. It was the tiniest thing you ever saw."Special thanks to Kulturkraft
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