ND-1-1526 Now, Sausage! Now, Sirloin! Now Venison and Brisket! On, Rump Roast! On Shank Roast! On Short Ribs! Can you risk it? ND-1-1523 The U.S. government and the Lomen Reindeer Corporation of Alaska thought thought reindeer meat was a good risk. In 1892 -- seventy years after poet Clement C. Moore named Santa's reindeer in "A Visit From St. Nicholas" -- Washington began importing a herd of Siberian reindeer to provide industry for Alaska's Inuit. Lomen became Alaska's leading producer of reindeer meat products. ND-1-1524