The Sámi (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi-speaking Indigenous peoples inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today...
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group of Sámi who live within one state and one municipality. Inari Sámi are indigenous peoples of their area. The traditional homeland of Inari Sámi is the...
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Sámi languages (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee), also rendered in English as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi peoples in...
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Sámi languages and Finnish. When biological anthropology was developed in the 19th century, Sámi were seen instead to differ from surrounding peoples...
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hard custody of Sámi peoples resulted in a great loss of Sámi culture. In the 1630s Swedish authorities imposed a corveé system on Sámi communities near...
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The Sámi flag is the flag of Sápmi and the Sámi people, one of the Indigenous people groups of the Nordic countries and the Kola Peninsula of the Russian...
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Norwegianization of the Sámi (Norwegian: fornorsking av samer) was an official policy carried out by the Norwegian government directed at the Sámi people and later...
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Sápmi (redirect from Sámi native region)
centres of Sámi culture, and because of that, it is also widely known as the "capital of Sámi culture". Sápmi (and corresponding terms in other Sami languages)...
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Sámi politics refers to politics that concern the Sámi ethnic group in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. In a more narrow sense, it has come to indicate...
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Sámi cuisine is the cuisine of peoples from the Sápmi territory of the Sámi people, which spans Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Its traditional cuisine...
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region to region within Sápmi. Traditional Sámi religion is generally considered to be Animism. The Sámi belief that all significant natural objects...
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the Sámi people were compelled to subject themselves to the law of Sweden by attending them. They were however silently allowed to practice Sámi shamanism...
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Sami, Paletwa, Myanmar, a town Sámi languages, languages spoken by the Sámi Sami (chimpanzee), kept at the Belgrade Zoo Sami, a common name for Prosopis...
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This is a list of Sámi people who are Sámi or who are of established Sámi descent. Nina Afanasyeva (born 1939), Russian-Sámi politician and language activist...
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traditional Sámi music songs (e.g. Kvad and Leudd songs) and joiks are important musical expressions of the Sámi people and Sámi languages. The Sámi also use...
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Sámi Americans are Americans of Sámi descent, who originate from Sápmi, the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia...
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The Sámi People's Party (Norwegian: Samefolkets Parti, Northern Sami: Sámeálbmot bellodat) is a Norwegian political party, founded on 15 October 1999,...
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A Sámi drum is a shamanic ceremonial drum used by the Sámi people of Northern Europe. Sámi ceremonial drums have two main variations, both oval-shaped:...
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Sámi clothing is clothing used by the Sámi. The style of clothing they use varies among regions and language groups, but there are many common or similar...
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Northern Sámi or North Sámi (English: /ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee; Northern Sami: davvisámegiella [ˈtavːiːˌsaːmeˌkie̯lːa]; Finnish: pohjoissaame [ˈpohjoi̯ˌsːɑːme];...
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Saami Council (redirect from Sámi Parliamentary Council)
safeguard Sámi rights and interest; consolidate the feeling of affinity among the Sámi people; attain recognition for the Sámi as one people and an indigenous...
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Kemi Sámi was a Sámi language that was originally spoken in the southernmost district of Finnish Lapland as far south as the Sámi siidas around Kuusamo...
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Ethnic groups in Finland (section Sámi)
examples include the Swedish speaking minority within the country and the Sámi peoples in the north. With modern international migration to Finland, different...
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Finn (ethnonym) (category Sámi peoples)
name Finn is an ethnonym that in ancient times usually referred to the Sámi peoples, but now refers almost exclusively to the Finns. The probable cognates...
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The Sámi Parliament of Norway (Norwegian: Sametinget, Northern Sami: Sámediggi [ˈsaːmeˌtiɡːiː], Lule Sami and Pite Sami: Sámedigge, Ume Sami: Sámiediggie...
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2023. "The Sámi: The People, Their Culture and Languages". Council of Europe. 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2023. "Rights of the Sámi People". Finnish Ministry...
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Inari Sámi (Inari Sami: anarâškielâ, lit. 'the Inarian language' or aanaarsämikielâ, 'the Inari (Aanaar) Sámi language') is a Sámi language spoken by the...
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Uralic languages family of Eurasia. Siberian origins are still visible in the Sámi, Finns and other populations of the Finno-Ugric language family. An abundance...
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The forest Sámi (Swedish: Skogssamer) are Sámi people who lived in the woods and who, unlike the reindeer-herding Sámi people (the "fell Sámi"), did not...
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Circumpolar peoples and Arctic peoples are umbrella terms for the various indigenous peoples of the Arctic region. Approximately four million people are resident...
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