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Sami people

Sami people
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Mari Boine Lars Levi Lstadius Lisa Thomasson Helga Pedersen Rene Zellweger Ole Henrik Magga Total population 163,400 (80,000135,000) Regions with significant populations
Spmi Norway United States Sweden Finland Russia Ukraine

133,400 37,890 [1] 30,000 [2] 14,600 [3] 9,350 [4] 1,991 [5] 136 [6]
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Sami languages: Northern Sami, Lule Sami, Pite Sami, Ume Sami, Southern Sami, Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Kildin Sami, Ter Sami Akkala Sami (extinct), Kemi Sami (extinct), Kainuu Sami (extinct) Nation State Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Russian Religion Lutheranism, Laestadianism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sami shamanism Related ethnic groups other Finnic peoples

The Sami people, also spelled Smi or Saami, are the indigenous people inhabiting the Arctic area of Spmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Smi are the only indigenous people of Scandinavia recognized and protected under the international conventions of indigenous peoples, and hence the northernmost indigenous people of Europe.[7] Sami ancestral lands span an area of approximately 388,350km2 (150,000 sq. mi.), which is approximately the size of Sweden, in the Nordic countries. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages and are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family. Traditionally, the Sami have pursued a variety of livelihoods, including coastal fishing, fur trapping and sheep herding. Their best-known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding. Currently about 10% of the Sami are connected to reindeer herding and 2,800 are actively involved in herding on a full-time basis.[8] For traditional, environmental, cultural and political reasons, reindeer herding is legally reserved only for Sami people in certain regions of the Nordic countries.[9]

Etymologies
The Smi are often known in other languages by the exonyms Lap, Lapp, or Laplanders, but many Sami regard these as pejorative terms.[10][11][12] Variants of the name Lapp were originally used in Sweden and Finland and, through Swedish, adopted by all major European languages: English: Lapps, German, Dutch: Lappen, Russian: (lopari), Ukrainian: , French: Lapons, Greek: (Lpnes), Italian: Lapponi, Polish: Lapoczycy, Spanish: Lapn, Portuguese: Lapes, Turkish: Lpon. The first known historical mention of the Sami, naming them Fenni, was by Tacitus, about 98CE.[13] Variants of Finn or Fenni were in wide use in ancient times, judging from the names Fenni and Phinnoi in classical Roman and Greek works. Finn (or variants, such as skridfinn, "striding Finn") was the name originally used by Norse speakers (and their proto-Norse speaking ancestors) to refer to the Sami, as attested in the Icelandic Eddas and Norse sagas (11th to 14th centuries). The etymology is somewhat uncertain, but the consensus seems to be that it is related to Old Norse finna, from proto-Germanic *finthanan ("to find"),[14] the logic being that the Sami, as hunter-gatherers "found" their food, rather than grew it. It has been suggested, however, that it may originally have been a more general term for "northern hunter gatherers", rather than referring exclusively to the Sami, which may explain why two Swedish runestones from the 11th century apparently refer to what is now southwestern Finland as Finland. Note that in Finnish, Finns (inhabitants of Finland), do not refer to themselves as Finns. As Old Norse gradually developed into the separate Scandinavian languages, Swedes apparently took to using Finn exclusively to refer to inhabitants of Finland, while Sami came to be called Lapps. In Norway, however, Sami were still called Finns at least until the modern era (reflected in toponyms like Finnmark, Finnsnes, Finnfjord and Finny) and some Northern Norwegians will still occasionally use Finn to refer to Sami people, although the Sami themselves now consider this to be a pejorative term. Finnish immigrants to Northern Norway in the 18th and 19th centuries were referred to as "Kvens" to distinguish them from the Sami "Finns".

Sami people The exact meaning of the term Lapp, and the reasons it came into common usage, are unknown; in modern Scandinavian languages, lapp means "a patch of cloth for mending", which may be a description[citation needed] of the clothing, called a gakti, that the Smi wore. Another possible source is the Finnish word lape, which in this case means "periphery". It is unknown how the word Lapp came into the Norse language, but one of the first written mentions of the term is in the Gesta Danorum by 12th century Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, who referred to the two Lappias, although he still referred to the Sami as (Skrid-)Finns.[15][16] In fact, Saxo never explicitly connects the Sami with the "two Laplands". It was popularized and became the standard terminology by the work of Johannes Schefferus, Acta Lapponica (1673), but was also used earlier by Olaus Magnus in his Description of the Northern peoples (1555). There is another suggestion that it originally meant "wilds".[citation needed] In Sweden and Finland, Lapp is common in place names, such as Lappi (Lnsi-Suomen lni) and Lapinlahti (It-Suomen lni) in Finland; and Lapp (Stockholm County), Lappe (Sdermanland) and Lappabo (Smland) in Sweden. As already mentioned, Finn is a common element in Norwegian (particularly Northern Norwegian) place names, whereas Lapp is exceedingly rare. In the North Smi language, lhppon olmmo means a person who is lost (from the verb lhppot, to get lost). Smi refer to themselves as Smit (the Smis) or Spmela (of Smi kin), the word Smi being inflected into various grammatical forms. It has been proposed that Smi (presumably borrowed from the Proto-Finnic word), Hme (Finnish for Tavastia) (< Proto-Finnic *m, the second still being found in the archaic derivation Hmlinen), and perhaps Suomi (Finnish for Finland) (< *sme-/sma-, compare suomalainen, supposedly borrowed from a Proto-Germanic source *sma- from Proto-Baltic *sma-, in turn borrowed from Proto-Finnic *m) are of the same origin and ultimately borrowed from the Baltic word *m, meaning "land".[17] The Baltic word is cognate with Slavic (zemlja), which also means "land".[18] The Smi institutions notably the parliaments, Homeland of the Smi people radio and TV stations, theatres, etc. all use the term Smi, including when addressing outsiders in Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, or English. In Norwegian, the Smi are today referred to by the Norwegianized form same, whereas the word lapp would be considered archaic and pejorative. Terminological issues in Finnish are somewhat different. Finns living in Finnish Lapland generally call themselves lappilainen, whereas the similar word for the Smi people is lappalainen. This can be confusing for foreign visitors because of the similar lives Finns and Smi people live today in Lapland. Lappalainen is also a common family name in Finland. As in the Scandinavian languages, lappalainen is often considered archaic or pejorative, and saamelainen is used instead, at least in official contexts.

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History
Since prehistoric times,[19][] the Sami people of Arctic Europe lived and worked in an area that stretches over the regions now known as Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola Peninsula. They have inhabited the northern arctic and sub-arctic regions of Fenno-Scandinavia and Russia for at least 5,000 years.[] The Sami are counted among the Arctic peoples and are members of circumpolar groups such as the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat.[20] Petroglyphs and archeological findings such as settlements dating from about 10,000B.C. can be found in the traditional lands of the Sami.[] A Sami family in Norway around 1900 The now-obsolete term for the archaeological culture of these hunters and gatherers of the late Paleolithic and early Mesolithic is Komsa. A cultural continuity between these stone-age people and the Sami can be assumed due to evidence such as the similarities in the decoration patterns of archeological bone objects and Sami decoration patterns, and there is no archeological evidence of this population being replaced by another.[] Recent archaeological discoveries in Finnish Lapland were originally seen as the continental version of the Komsa culture about the same age as the earliest finds on the coast of Norway.[21][22] It is hypothesized that the Komsa followed receding glaciers inland from the Arctic coast at the end of the last ice age (between 11,000 and 8000 years B.C.) as new land opened up for settlement (e.g., modern Finnmark area in the northeast, to the coast of the Kola Peninsula).[23] Since the Sami are the earliest ethnic group in the area, they are consequently considered an indigenous population of the area.[24]

Southern limits of Sami settlement in the past


How far south the Sami extended in the past has been debated among historians and archeologists for many years. The Norwegian historian Yngvar Nielsen, commissioned by the Norwegian government in 1889 to determine this question in order to settle contemporary questions of Sami land rights, concluded that the Sami had lived no farther south than Lierne in Nord-Trndelag county until around 1500, when they started moving south, reaching the area around Lake Femunden in the 18th century.[25] This hypothesis is still accepted among many historians, but has been the subject of scholarly debate in the 21st A Sami man and child in Finnmark, Norway, century. In recent years, several archaeological finds indicate a Sami circa 1900 presence in southern Norway in the Middle Ages, and southern Sweden,[] including finds in Lesja, in Vang in Valdres and in Hol and l in Hallingdal.[] Proponents of the Sami interpretations of these finds assume a mixed population of Norse and Sami people in the mountainous areas of southern Norway in the Middle Ages.[]

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Origins of the Norwegian Sea Sami


The bubonic plague Until the arrival of the bubonic plague of 1349 in northern Norway, the Sami and the Norwegians occupied very separate economic niches.[26] The Sami hunted reindeer and fished for their own livelihood. The Norwegians, concentrated on the outer islands and outer sections of the fjords, were connected to the greater European trade routes; did marginal farming in the Nordland, Troms, and Finnmark counties; and fished for trade products from the south.[27] The two groups co-existed using two different food resources.[27] According to old Nordic texts, the Sea Sami and the Mountain Sami are two classes of the same people and not two different ethnic groups as had been erroneously believed.[28]

Sami people, in Norway, 1928

This social economic balance greatly changed with the introduction of the bubonic plague in northern Norway in December 1349. The Norwegians were closely connected to the greater European trade routes, along which the plague traveled; consequently, they were infected and died at a far higher rate than Sami in the interior. Of all Nordic Sami people, Lavvu circa.1900 the states in the region, Norway suffered the most from this plague.[29] Depending on the parish, sixty to seventy-six percent of the northern Norwegian farms were abandoned following the plague,[30] while land-rents, another possible measure of the population numbers, dropped down to between 9-28% of pre-plague rents.[31] Although the population of northern Norway is sparse compared to southern Europe, the spread of the disease was just as rapid.[32] The method of movement of the plague-infested flea (Xenopsylla cheopsis) from the south was in wooden barrels holding wheat, rye, or wool where the fleas could live, and even reproduce, for several months at a time.[33] The Sami, having a non-wheat or -rye diet, eating fish and reindeer meat, living in communities detached from the Norwegians, and being only weakly connected to the European trade routes, fared far better than the Norwegians.[34]

Sami people Fishing industry Fishing has always been the main livelihood for the many Sami living permanently in seaside areas.[] Archeological research shows that the Sami have lived along the coast and once lived much further south in the past, and they were also involved in work other than just reindeer herding (e.g., fishing, agriculture, iron work).[] The fishing along the north Norwegian coast, especially in the Lofoten and Vesterlen islands, is quite productive with a variety of fish, and during medieval times, it was a major source of income for both the fisherman and the Norwegian monarchy.[35] With such massive population drops caused by the Black Death, the tax revenues from this industry greatly diminished. Because of the huge economic profits that could be had from these fisheries, the local authorities offered incentives to the Sami faced with their own population pressures to settle on the newly vacant farms.[36] This started the economic division between the Sea Sami (sjsamene), who fished extensively off the coast, and the Mountain Sami (fjellsamene, innlandssamene), who continued to hunt (among other, small-game animals), and later herd, reindeer. Even as late as the early 18th century, there were many Sami who were still settling on these farms left abandoned from the 1350s.[37][38] After many years of continuous migration, these Sea Sami became far more numerous than the reindeer mountain Sami, who today only make up 10% of all Sami. In contemporary times, there are also ongoing consultations between the Government of Norway and the Sami Parliament regarding the right of the coastal Sami to fish in the seas on the basis of historical use and international law.[39] State regulation of sea fisheries underwent drastic change in the late 1980s. The regulation linked quotas to vessels and not to fishers. These newly calculated quotas were distributed free of cost to larger vessels on the basis of the amount of the catch in previous years, resulting in small vessels in Sami districts falling outside the new quota system to a large degree.[][]

A Sea Sami man from Norway by Prince Roland Bonaparte in 1884

Mountain Sami As the Sea Sami settled along Norway's fjords and inland waterways pursuing a combination of farming, cattle raising, trapping and fishing, the smaller minority of the Mountain Sami continued to hunt wild reindeer. Around 1500, they started to tame these animals into herding groups, becoming the well-known reindeer nomads, often portrayed by outsiders as following the archetypal Sami lifestyle. The Mountain Sami faced the fact that they had to pay taxes to three nation-states, A Sea Sami man from Norway by Prince Roland Norway, Sweden and Russia, as they crossed the borders of each of the Bonaparte in 1884 respective countries following the annual reindeer migrations, which caused much resentment over the years.[] Sweden made the Sami work in a slavemine at Nasafjll, causing many Samis to flee from the area, so a large part of the provinces previously used by Pite and Lule Samis is depopulated. Government troops were ordered to prevent the Sami from fleeing.[]

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Post-1800s For long periods of time, the Sami lifestyle thrived because of its adaptation to the Arctic environment. Indeed, throughout the 18th century, as Norwegians of Northern Norway suffered from low fish prices and consequent depopulation, the Sami cultural element was strengthened, since the Sami were mostly independent of supplies from Southern Norway.
Traditional raised Sami storehouse, displayed at Skansen, Stockholm. A similar structure, the izbushka, is mentioned in Russian children stories as a house with chicken feet

However, during the 19th century, Norwegian authorities put the Sami culture under pressure in order to make the Norwegian language and culture universal. A strong economic development of the north also took place, giving Norwegian culture and language status. On the Swedish and Finnish side, the authorities were much less militant in their efforts, though Sami language was forbidden in schools; strong economic development in the north led to a weakening of status and economy for the Sami. In 1913-1920, the Swedish race-segregation politic created a race biological institute that collected research material from living people, graves, and sterilized Sami women. Throughout history, settlers were encouraged to move to the northern regions through incentives such as land and water rights, tax allowances, and military exemptions.[40] The strongest pressure took place from around 1900 to 1940, when Norway invested considerable money and effort to wipe out Sami culture. Notably, anyone who wanted to buy or lease state lands for agriculture in Finnmark had to prove knowledge of the Norwegian A Pite Sami from Beiarn language and had to register with a Norwegian name. This ultimately caused the dislocation of Sami people in the 1920s, which increased the gap between local Sami groups (something still present today) and sometimes bears the character of an internal Sami ethnic conflict. In 1913, the Norwegian parliament passed a bill on "native act land" to allocate the best and most useful lands to the Norwegian settlers. Another factor was the scorched earth policy conducted by the German army, resulting in heavy war destruction in northern Finland and northern Norway in 194445, destroying all existing houses, or kota, and visible traces of Sami culture. After World War II, the pressure was relaxed somewhat, though the legacy was evident into recent times, such as the 1970s law limiting the size of any house that Sami people were allowed to build. [citation needed] The controversy around the construction of the hydro-electric power station in Alta in 1979 brought Sami rights onto the political agenda. In August 1986, the national anthem ("Smi soga lvlla") and flag (Sami flag) of the Sami people were created. In 1989, the first Sami parliament in Norway was elected. In 2005, the Finnmark Act was passed in the Norwegian parliament. This law gives the Sami parliament and the Finnmark Provincial council a joint responsibility of administering the land areas previously considered state property. These areas (96% of the provincial area), which have always been used primarily by the Sami, now belong officially to the people of the

Sami people province, whether Sami or Norwegian, and not to the Norwegian state. Contemporary The indigenous Sami population is a mostly urbanised demographic, but a substantial number live in villages in the high arctic. The Sami are still coping with the cultural consequences of language and culture loss related to generations of Sami children taken to missionary and/or state-run boarding schools and the legacy of laws that were created to deny the Sami rights (e.g., to their beliefs, language, land and to the practice of traditional livelihoods). The Sami are experiencing cultural and environmental threats,[] including oil exploration, mining, dam building, logging, climate change, military bombing ranges, tourism and commercial development. Natural-resource prospecting Sapmi is rich in precious metals, oil, and natural gas. Mining activities in Arctic Sapmi cause controversy when they are in grazing and calving areas. Mining projects are rejected by the Sami Parliament in the Finnmark area. The Sami Parliament demands that resources and mineral exploration should benefit mainly the local Sami communities and population, as the proposed mines are in Sami lands and will affect their ability to maintain their traditional livelihood.[41] Mining Vindelfjllen locations even include ancient Sami spaces that are designated as ecologically protected areas, such as Vindelfjllen nature reserve.[42] In Russia's Kola Peninsula, vast areas have already been destroyed by mining and smelting activities, and further development is imminent. This includes oil and natural gas exploration in the Barents Sea. There is a gas pipeline that stretches across the Kola Peninsula. Oil spills affect fishing and the construction of roads. Power lines may cut off access to reindeer calving grounds and sacred sites.[43] Logging In northern Finland, there has been a longstanding dispute over the destruction of forests, which prevents reindeer from migrating between seasonal feeding grounds and destroys supplies of lichen that grow on the upper branches of older trees. This lichen is the reindeer's only source of sustenance during the winter months, when snow is deep. The logging has been under the control of the state-run forest system.[44] Greenpeace, reindeer herders, and Sami organisations carried out a historical joint campaign, and in 2010, Sami reindeer herders won some time as a result of these court cases. Industrial logging has now been pushed back from the most important forest areas either permanently or for the next 20 years, though there are still threats, such as mining and construction plans of holiday resorts on the protected shorelines of Lake Inari.[45] Military activities Government authorities and NATO have built bombing-practice ranges in Sami areas in northern Norway and Sweden. These regions have served as reindeer calving and summer grounds for thousands of years, and contain many ancient Sami sacred sites.[46][47]

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The Swedish government has allowed the world's largest onshore wind farm to be built in Pite, in the Arctic region where the Eastern Kikkejaure village has its winter reindeer pastures. The wind farm will consist of more than 1,000 wind turbines, one 80 mil and an extensive road infrastructure, which means that the feasibility of using the area for winter grazing in practice is impossible. Sweden has received strong international criticism, including by the UN Racial Suorvajaure near Pite Discrimination Committee and the Human Rights Committee, that Sweden violates Sami landrttigheter (land rights), including by not regulating industry. In Norway some Lappish politicians (for example - Aili Keskitalo) suggest giving the Sami Parliament a special veto right on planned mining projects.[48] Water rights State regulation of sea fisheries underwent drastic change in the late 1980s. The regulation linked quotas to vessels and not to fishers. These newly calculated quotas were distributed free of cost to larger vessels on the basis of the amount of the catch in previous years, resulting in small vessels in Sami districts falling outside the new quota system to a large degree. The Sami recently stopped a water-prospecting venture that threatened to turn an ancient sacred site and natural spring called Suttesaja into a large-scale water-bottling plant for the world marketwithout notification or consultation with the local Sami people, who make up 70 percent of the population. The Finnish National Board of Antiquities has registered the area as a heritage site of cultural and historical significance, and the stream itself is part of the Deatnu/Tana watershed, which is home to Europe's largest salmon river, an important source of Sami livelihood.[49] In Norway, the government plans for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in the Alta river in Finnmark, northern Norway led to a political controversy, rallying of the Sami popular movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. As a result, the opposistion in the Alta controversy brought attention not only to environmental issues but also to the issue of Sami rights. Climate change and environment Reindeer have major cultural and economic significance for indigenous peoples of the North. The human-ecological systems in the North, like reindeer pastoralism, are sensitive to change, perhaps more than in virtually any other region of the globe, due in part to the variability of the Arctic climate and ecosystem and the characteristic ways of life of indigenous Arctic peoples.[50] The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster caused nuclear fallout in the sensitive Arctic ecosystems and poisoned fish, meat and berries. Lichens and mosses are two of the main forms Sami man from Norway of vegetation in the Arctic and are highly susceptible to airborne pollutants and heavy metals. Since many do not have roots, they absorb nutrients, and toxic compounds, through their leaves. The lichens accumulated airborne radiation, and 73,000 reindeer had to be destroyed as "unfit" for human consumption in Sweden alone. The government promised Sami indemnification, which was not acted upon by government. Radioactive wastes and spent nuclear fuel have been stored in the waters off the Kola Peninsula, including locations that are only "two kilometers" from places where Sami live. There are a minimum of five "dumps" where spent

Sami people nuclear fuel and other radioactive waste are being deposited in the Kola Peninsula, often with little concern for the surrounding environment or population.[51] Tourism The tourism industry in Finland has been criticized for turning Sami culture into a marketing tool by promoting opportunities to experience "authentic" Sami ceremonies and lifestyle. At many tourist locales, non-Samis dress in inaccurate replicas of Sami traditional clothing, and gift shops sell crude reproductions of Sami handicraft. One popular "ceremony", crossing the Arctic Circle, actually has no significance in Sami spirituality. To the Sami, this is an insulting display of cultural exploitation.[52] Sami discrimination The Sami have been the subject of discrimination by the great powers nearly throughout their existence. They have never been a single community in a single region of Lapland, which until recently was considered only as a cultural region. Norway has been greatly criticized by international community for the politics of the norwegianisation and discrimination towards the aboriginal population of the country.[53] Recent research shows that the Sami are discriminated against in many contexts, especially, it is worrying that Sami children and adolescents exposed to various forms of bullying because of their Sami identity. On 8 April 2011 UN Racial Discrimination Committee recommendations were handed over Norway and addressed many issues, including the educational situation for students needing bilingual education in Sami. Committee wills was concerned that no language was taken as a basis for discrimination in the Norwegian anti-discrimination laws, and recommended wording of Racial Discrimination Convention art 1 contained in the Act. In the recommendations it emerged a number of points concerning the Sami population in Norway including the incorporation racial Convention through the Human Rights Act, improving the availability and quality of interpreter services and equality with civil Ombudsman's recommendations for action. A new present status report must have been ready by the end of 2012.[54] In Sweden the Sami often feel that the schools do not contribute to strengthening the Sami childrens identity and that children who are subjected to harassment and discrimination are not given the protection that they need and to which they are entitled. Sami children, young people and parents have also said that harassment connected to their ethnic background is part of their day-to-day life. It is manifested through taunts and other types of abuse. The Sami feel that the local authorities do not take the Sami right to mother tongue teaching seriously, even to the point of openly opposing it. It is evident that a childs possibilities for receiving mother tongue teaching are in many cases dependent on the parents involvement and knowledge of Sami linguistic rights.

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Culture
To make up for past suppression, the authorities of Norway, Sweden and Finland now make an effort to build up Sami cultural institutions and promote Sami culture and language.

Duodji (craft)

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Duodji, the Sami handicraft, originates from the time when the Samis were self-supporting nomads, believing therefore that an object should first and foremost serve a purpose rather than being primarily decorative. Men mostly use wood, bone, and antlers to make items such as antler-handled scrimshawed sami knives, drums, and guksi (burl cups). Women used leather and roots to make items such as gkti (clothing), and birch- and spruce-root woven baskets.

Clothing
Gakti are the traditional clothing worn by the Smi people. The gkti is worn both in ceremonial contexts and while working, particularly when herding reindeer. Traditionally, the gkti was made from reindeer leather and sinews, but nowadays, it is more common to use wool, cotton, or silk. Women's gkti typically consist of a dress, a fringed shawl that is fastened with 1-3 silver brooches, and boots/shoes made of reindeer fur or leather. Boots can have pointed or curled toes and often have band-woven ankle wraps. Eastern Sami boots have a rounded toe on reindeer-fur boots, lined with felt and with beaded details. There are different gkti for women and men; men's gkti have a shorter "jacket-skirt" than a women's long dress. Traditional gkti are most commonly in variations of red, blue, green, white, medium-brown tanned leather, or reindeer fur. In winter, there is the addition of a reindeer fur coat and leggings, and sometimes a poncho (luhkka) and rope/lasso. The colours, patterns and the jewellery of the gkti indicate where a person is from, if a person is single or married, and sometimes can even be specific to their family. The collar, sleeves and hem usually have appliqus in the form of geometric shapes. Some regions have ribbonwork, others have tin embroidery, and some Eastern Sami have beading on clothing or collar. Hats vary by gender, season, and region. They can be wool, leather, or fur. They can be embroidered, or in the East, they are more like a beaded cloth crown with a shawl. Some traditional shamanic headgear had animal hides, plaits, and feathers, particularly in East Sapmi.

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Beaded belt, knife, and antler needlecase

The gkti can be worn with a belt; these are sometimes band-woven Sami woman from Sweden belts, woven, or beaded. Leather belts can have scrimshawed antler buttons, silver concho-like buttons, tassles, or brass/copper details such as rings. Belts can also have beaded leather pouches, antler needle cases, accessories for a fire, copper rings, amulets, and often a carved and/or scrimshawed antler handled knife. Some Eastern Sami also have a hooded jumper () from reindeer skins with wool inside and above the knee boots.

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Sami mittens

Media and literature


There are short daily news bulletins in Northern Smi on national TV in Norway, Sweden and Finland. Children's television shows in Sami are also frequently made. There is also a radio station for Northern Smi, which has some news programs in the other Smi languages. A single daily newspaper is published in Northern Sami, vvir,[55] along with a few magazines. There is a Smi theatre, Beaivva, in Kautokeino on the Norwegian side, as well as in Kiruna on the Swedish side. Both tour the entire Smi area with drama written by Smi authors or international translations.

Muitalus smiid birra by Johan Turi

A number of novels and poetry collections are published every year in Northern Smi, and sometimes in the other Smi languages as well. The largest Sami Publishing house is Davvi Girji.

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Marry ilonieida Somby, Sami author from Deatnu

Music
A characteristic feature of Sami musical tradition is the singing of yoik/joik. Yoiks are song-chants and are traditionally sung a cappella, usually sung slowly and deep in the throat with apparent emotional content of sorrow or anger. Yoiks can be dedicated to animals and birds in nature, special people or special occasions, and they can be joyous, sad or melancholic. They often are based on syllablic improvisation. In recent years, musical instruments frequently accompany yoiks. The only traditional Sami instruments that were sometimes used to accompany yoik are the "fadno" flute (made from reed-like Angelica archangelica stems) and hand drums (frame drums and bowl drums).

Sofia Jannok, a Sami vocalist and musician from Gllivare (Sweden)

Education
Education with Sami as the first language is available in all four countries, and also outside the Sami area. Sami University College is located in Kautokeino. Sami language is studied in several universities in all countries, most notably the University of Troms, which considers Sami a mother tongue, not a foreign language.

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Festivals and markets


Numerous Sami festivals throughout the Spmi area celebrate different aspects of the Sami culture. The best-known on the Norwegian side is Riddu Riu, though there are others, such as Ijahis Idja in Inari. Among the most festive are the Easter festivals taking place in Kautokeino and Karasjok prior to the springtime reindeer migration to the coast. These festivals combine traditional culture with modern phenomena such as snowmobile races.

Visual Arts
In addition to Duodji (Sami handicraft), there is a developing area of contemporary Sami visual art. Galleries such as Smi Diddaguovdd (Sami Center for Contemporary Art)[] are being established.
Sara Marielle Gaup at Riddu Riu

Dance
For many years there was a misconception that the Smi were the only Indigenous people without a dance tradition in the world.[56] A shamanistic arctic people without dance, does not make sense and is more likely to be a supression of dance tradition due to its relationship to pre-Christian Shamanic traditions. Sami dance companies have emerged such as Kompani Nomad.[] A book about the lost Sami dance tradition called "Jakten p den frsvunna samiska dansen was recently published by Ume University's Centre for Sami Research (CeSam)[57]. In the eastern areas of Spmi the dance tradition has been more continuous and is continued by groups such as Johtti Kompani.[]

Reindeer husbandry
Reindeer husbandry has been, and is, an important aspect of Sami culture. During the years of forced assimilation, the areas in which reindeer herding was an important livelihood were among the few where the Sami culture and language survived. Today, in Norway and Sweden, reindeer husbandry is legally protected as an exclusive Sami livelihood, such that only persons of Sami descent with a linkage to a reindeer herding family can own, and hence make a living off, reindeer. Presently, about 2,800 people are engaged Reindeer herding in reindeer herding in Norway.[8] In Finland, reindeer husbandry is not exclusive and is practiced to a limited degree also by ethnic Finns. Legally, it is restricted to EU/EEA nationals resident in the area. In the north (Lapland), it plays a major role in the local economy, while its economic impact is lesser in the southern parts of the area (Province of Oulu). Among the reindeer herders in the Saami villages, the women usually have a higher level of formal education in the area.[58]

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Sami policy
Norway
The Sami have been recognized as an indigenous people in Norway (1990 according to ILO convention 169 as described below), and hence, according to international law, the Sami people in Norway are entitled special protection and rights. The legal foundation of the Sami policy is:[59] Article 110a of the Norwegian Constitution. The Sami Act (act of 12 June 1987 No. 56 concerning the Sami Parliament (the Smediggi) and other legal matters pertaining to the Samis).

Sami Parliament of Norway

The constitutional amendment states: "It is the responsibility of the authorities of the State to create conditions enabling the Sami people to preserve and develop its language, culture and way of life." This provides a legal and political protection of the Sami language, culture and society. In addition the "amendment implies a legal, political and moral obligation for Norwegian authorities to create an environment conducive to the Samis themselves influencing on the development of the Sami community" (ibid.). The Sami Act provides special rights for the Sami people (ibid.): "...the Samis shall have their own national Sami Parliament elected by and amongst the Samis" (Chapter 12). The Sami people shall decide the area of activity of the Norwegian Sami Parliament. The Sami and Norwegian languages have equal standing in Norway (section 15; Chapter 3 contains details with regards to the use of the Sami language). In addition, the Sami have special rights to reindeer husbandry. The Norwegian Sami Parliament also elects 50% of the members to the board of the Finnmark Estate, which controls 95% of the land in the county of Finnmark. Norway has also accepted international conventions, declarations and agreements applicable to the Sami as a minority and indigenous people including:[60] The International Covenant on Civil and Political Right (1966). Mountain landscape in Kvalsund near Article 27 protects minorities, and indigenous peoples, against Hammerfest discrimination: "In those states in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities, shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practice their own religion, or use their own language." ILO Convention No. 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (1989). The convention states that rights for the indigenous peoples to land and natural resources are recognized as central for their material and cultural survival. In addition, indigenous peoples should be entitled to exercise control over, and manage, their own institutions, ways of life and economic development in order to maintain and develop their identities, languages and religions, within the framework of the states in which they live. The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965). The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979). The Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (1995). The Council of Europe's Charter for Regional and Minority Languages (1992).

Sami people The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007).[61] In 2007, the Norwegian Parliament passed the new Reindeer Herding Act acknowledging siida as the basic institution regarding land rights, organization, and daily herding management.[]

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Sweden
The Sametingslag was established as the Swedish Sami Parliament as of 1 January 1993. Sweden recognised the existence of the "Sami nation" in 1989, but the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, C169 has not been adopted. All indigenous rights are currently banned. The Compulsory School Ordinance states that Sami pupils are entitled to be taught in their native language; however, a municipality is only obliged to arrange mother-tongue teaching in Sami if a suitable teacher is available and the pupil has a basic knowledge of Sami.[]

Sami Parliament in Sweden

In 2010, after 14 years of negotiation, Laponiatjuottjudus, an association with Sami majority control, will govern the UNESCO World Heritage Site Laponia. The reindeer-herding law will apply in the area as well.[62] In 1998, Sweden formally apologized for the wrongs committed against the Sami.

Finland
The act establishing the Finnish Sami Parliament (Finnish: Saamelaiskrjt) was passed on November 9, 1973. Finland recognized the Sami as a "people" in 1995, but they have yet to ratify ILO Convention 169 Concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples.

Land near Ylls

Finland ratified the 1966 U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights though several cases brought before the U.N. Human Rights Committee. Of those, 36 cases involved a determination of the rights of individual Sami in Finland and Sweden. The committee decisions clarify that Sami are members of a minority within the meaning of Article 27 and that deprivation or erosion of their rights to practice traditional activities that are an essential element of their culture do come within the scope of Article 27.[63] The case of J. Lansman versus Finland concerned a challenge by Sami reindeer herders in northern Finland to plans of the Finnish Central Forestry Board to approve logging and construction of roads in an area used by the herdsmen as winter pasture and spring calving grounds.[] Sami have had some access to Sami language instruction (in some schools) since 1970s, and language rights were established in 1992. There are three Sami languages spoken in Finland: North Sami, Skolt Sami and Inari Sami. Of these languages, Inari Sami, which is spoken by about 350 speakers, is the only one that is used entirely within borders of Finland, mainly in the municipality of Inari.
Finnish Lapland. The three northernmost municipalities Utsjoki, Inari and Enonteki and part of Sodankyl is officially considered the Sami area.

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Russia
Russia has not adopted the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, C169. The inhabitants of the Kola tundra were forcibly relocated to kolkhoz'es (collective communities) by the state;[66] most Saami are in one kolkhoz at Lujvri (Lovozero). The 1822 Statute of Administration of Non-Russians in Siberia asserted state ownership over all the land in Siberia and then "granted" possessory rights to the natives.[][67] Governance of indigenous groups, and especially collection of taxes from them, necessitated protection of indigenous peoples against exploitation by traders and settlers.[] The 1993 Constitution, Article 69 states, "The Russian Federation guarantees the rights of small indigenous peoples in accordance with the generally accepted principles and standards of international law and international treaties of the Russian Federation."[][68] For the first time in Russia, the rights of indigenous minorities were established in the 1993 Constitution.[] The Russian Federation ratified the 1966 U.N. Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;[] Section 2 explicitly forbids depriving a people of "its own means of subsistence."[] The Russian parliament (Duma) has adopted partial measures to implement it.[] The Russian Federation lists distinct indigenous peoples as having National Culture Center in Lovozero special rights and protections under the Constitution and federal laws and decrees.[][69] These rights are linked to the category known since Soviet times as the malochislennye narody ("small-numbered peoples"), a term that is often translated as "indigenous minorities", which include Arctic peoples such as the Sami, Nenets, Evenki, and Chukchi.[] In April 1999, the Russian Duma passed a law that guarantees socio-economic and cultural development to all indigenous minorities, protecting traditional living places and acknowledging some form of limited ownership of territories that have traditionally been used for hunting, herding, fishing, and gathering activities. The law, however, does not anticipate the transfer of title in fee simply to indigenous minorities. The law does not recognize development rights, some proprietary rights including compensation for damage to the property, and limited exclusionary rights. It is not clear, however, whether protection of nature in the traditional places of inhabitation implies a right to exclude conflicting uses that are destructive to nature or whether they have the right to veto development.[] The Russian Federation's Land Code reinforces the rights of numerically small peoples ("indigenous minorities") to use places they inhabit and to continue traditional economic activities without being charged rent.[][70] Such lands cannot be allocated for unrelated activities (which might include oil, gas, and mineral development or tourism) without the consent of the indigenous peoples. Furthermore, indigenous minorities and ethnic groups are allowed to use environmentally protected lands and lands set aside as nature preserves to engage in their traditional modes of land use.[]
Kildin Sami Map. is "Sami" in Cyrillics

Sami people Regional law, Code of the Murmansk Oblast, calls on the organs of state power of the oblast to facilitate the native peoples of the Kola North, specifically naming the Sami, "in realization of their rights for preservation and development of their native language, national culture, traditions and customs." The third section of Article 21 states: "In historically established areas of habitation, Sami enjoy the rights for traditional use of nature and [traditional] activities."[] Throughout the Russian North, indigenous and local people are being denied rights to fish, hunt, use pastureland, or exercise control over resources upon which they and their ancestors have depended for centuries. The failure to protect indigenous ways, however, stems not from inadequacy of the written law, but rather from the failure to implement existing laws. Unfortunately, violations of the rights of indigenous peoples continue, and oil, gas, and mineral development and other activities (mining, timber cutting, commercial fishing, and tourism) that bring foreign currency into the Russian economy prevail over the rule of law.[]

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Kola Bay

The life ways and economy of indigenous peoples of the Russian North are based upon reindeer herding, fishing, terrestrial and sea mammal hunting, and trapping. Many groups in the Russian Arctic are semi-nomadic, moving seasonally to different hunting and fishing camps. These groups depend upon different types of environment at differing times of the year, rather than upon exploiting a single commodity to exhaustion.[][71] Throughout northwestern Siberia, oil and gas development has disturbed pastureland and undermined the Chibini massif, Kola Peninsula ability of indigenous peoples to continue hunting, fishing, trapping, and herding activities. Roads constructed in connection with oil and gas exploration and development destroy and degrade pastureland,[72] ancestral burial grounds, and sacred sites and increase hunting by oil workers on the territory used by indigenous peoples.[73] In the Sami homeland on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia, regional authorities closed a fifty-mile (eighty-kilometer) stretch of the Ponoi River (and other rivers) to local fishing and granted exclusive fishing rights to a commercial company offering catch-and-release fishing to sport fishers largely from abroad.[74] This deprived the local Sami (see Article 21 of the Code of the Murmansk Oblast) of food for their families and community and of their traditional economic livelihood. Thus, closing the fishery to locals may have violated the test articulated by the U.N. Human Rights Committee and disregarded Krasnoshchelye village on the Ponoi River the Land Code, other legislative acts, and the 1992 Presidential decree. Sami are not only forbidden to fish in the eighty-kilometer stretch leased to the Ponoi River Company but are also required by regional laws to pay for licenses to catch a limited number of fish outside the lease area. Residents of remote communities have neither the power nor the resources to demand enforcement of their rights. Here and elsewhere in the circumpolar north, the failure to apply laws for the protection of indigenous peoples leads to "criminalization" of local indigenous populations who cannot survive without "poaching" resources that should be accessible to them legally.[] Although indigenous leaders in Russia have occasionally asserted indigenous rights to land and resources, to date there has been no serious or sustained discussion of indigenous group rights to ownership of land.[]

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Nordic
On 16 November 2005 in Helsinki, a group of experts, led by former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway Professor Carsten Smith, submitted a proposal for a Nordic Sami Convention to the annual joint meeting of the ministers responsible for Sami affairs in Finland, Norway and Sweden and the presidents of the three Sami Parliaments from the respective countries. This convention recognizes the Sami as one indigenous people residing across national borders in all three countries. A set of minimum standards is proposed for the rights of developing the Sami language and culture and rights to land and water, livelihoods and society.[75] The convention has not yet been ratified in the Nordic countries.[76]

Spmi
Spmi is the name of the cultural region traditionally inhabited by the Sami people. Non-Sami and many regional maps have often called this same region Lapland as there is considerable regional overlap between the two terms. Lapland can be either misleading, offensive, or both, depending on the context and where this word is used, to the Sami. Among the Sami people, Spmi is strictly used and acceptable. Spmi is located in Northern Europe, includes the northern parts of Fennoscandia and spans four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.

Area
There is no official geographic definition for the boundaries of Spmi. However, the following counties and provinces are usually included: Dalarnas Ln county in Sweden Finnmark county in Norway Jmtlands Ln county in Sweden Lapland Region in Finland Murmansk oblast in Russia Nord-Trndelag county in Norway Nordland county in Norway Norrbottens Ln county in Sweden Troms county in Norway Vsterbottens Ln county in Sweden The municipalities of Gllivare, Jokkmokk and Arjeplog in Swedish Lappland were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 as a "Laponian Area". The Sami Domicile Area in Finland consists of the municipalities of Enonteki, Utsjoki and Inari as well as a part of the municipality of Sodankyl.
Laponian area in Spmi, UNESCO World Heritage Site

Sami people Important Sami towns The following towns and villages have a significant Sami population or host Sami institutions (Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish or Russian name in parentheses): Aanaar, Anr, or Aanar (Inari), is the location of the Finnish Sami Parliament, Sajos Smi Cultural Centre, SAKK - Saamelaisalueen koulutuskeskus (Smi Education Institute), Anarkiel servi (Inari Smi Language Association), and the Inari Sami Siida Museum. Aarborte (Hattfjelldal) is a southern Sami center with a Southern Sami-language school and a Sami culture center. Arjepluovve (Arjeplog). Deatnu (Tana) has a significant Sami population. Divtasvuodna (Tysfjord) is a center for the Lule-Sami population. The rran Lule-Sami center is located here. Givuotna (Kfjord, Troms) is an important center for the Sea-Sami culture. Each summer the Riddu Riu festival is held in Givuotna. The municipality has a Sami-language center and hosts the ja Sami Center. The opposition against Sami language and culture revitalization in Givuotna was infamous in the late 1990s and included Sami-language road signs being shot to pieces repeatedly.[77] Giron (Kiruna), proposed seat of the Swedish Sami Parliament.
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Kanevka, Ponoy River, Russia's Lovozersky District

Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino) is perhaps the cultural capital of the Sami. About 90% of the population speaks Sami. Several Sami institutions are located in Kautokeino including: Beaivv Smi Theatre, a Sami high school and reindeer-herding School, the Sami University College, the Nordic Sami Research Institute, the Sami Language Board, the Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous People, and the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry. In addition, several Sami media are located in Kautokeino including the Sami-language u newspaper, and the DAT Sami publishing house and record company. Kautokeino also hosts the Sami Easter Festival, which includes the Sami Grand Prix 2010 (Sami Musicfestival) and the Reindeer Racing World Cup. The Kautokeino rebellion in 1852 is one of the few Sami rebellions against the Norwegian government's oppression against the Sami. Inudh, or Eanodat (Enonteki). Jiellevrri, or Vhir (Gllivare)

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Jhkmhkke (Jokkmokk) holds a Sami market on the first weekend of every February and has a Sami school for language and traditional knowledge called Samij hpadusguovdsj [78]. Krjohka (Karasjok) is the seat of the Norwegian Sami Parliament. Other important Sami institutions are located in Krjohka, including NRK Sami Radio, the Sami Collections museum, the Sami Art Centre, the Sami Specialist Library, the Mid-Finnmark legal office, the Inner Finnmark Child and Youth Psychiatric Policlinic, the Sami Specialist Medical Centre, and the Sami Health Research Institute.[79] In addition, the Spmi cultural park is in the township, and the Sami-language Min igi newspaper is published here. Leavdnja (Lakselv) in Porsgu (Porsanger) municipality is the location of the Finnmark Estate and the Sgat Sami newspaper. The Finnmarkseiendommen organization owns and manages about 95% of the land in Finnmark, and 50% of its board members are elected by the Norwegian Sami Parliament. Lujavvr (Lovozero) Luvlieluspie (stersund) is the center for the Southern Sami people living in Sweden. It is the site for Gaaltije centre for South Sami culture a living source of knowledge for South Sami culture, history and business. Luvlieluspie also hosts the Sami Information Centre and one of the offices to the Sami Parliament in Sweden. Ohcejohka (Utsjoki). Snase (Snsa) is a center for the Southern Sami language and the only municipality in Norway where Southern Sami is an official language. The Saemien Sijte Southern Sami museum is located in Snase.

jtte Museum of the Sami people, Jokkmokk

Log cabin in Utsjoki

Unjrga (Nesseby) is an important center for the Sea Sami culture. It is also the site for the Vrjjat Smi Museum and the Norwegian Sami Parliament's department of culture and environment. The first Sami to be elected into the Norwegian Parliament, Isak Saba, was born there. rviesjvrrie (Arvidsjaur). New settlers from the south of Sweden didn't arrive until the second half of the 18th century. Because of that, Sami tradition and culture has been well preserved. Sami people living in the south of Norrbotten, Sweden, use the city for Reindeer herding during the summer. During winter they move the Reindeers to the coast, to Pite.

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Demographics
In the geographical area of Spmi, the Sami are a small population. According to some, the estimated total Sami population is about 70,000.[80] One problem when attempting to count the population of the Smi is that there are few common criteria of what "being a Smi" constitutes. In addition, there are several Smi languages and additional dialects, and there are several areas in Sapmi where few of the Sami speak their native language due to the forced cultural assimilation, but still consider themselves Sami. Other identity markers are kinship (which can be said to, at some level or other, be of high importance for all Smi), the geographical region of Spmi where their family came from, and/or protecting or preserving certain aspects of Sami culture.[81] All the Nordic Smi Parliaments have included as the "core" criterion for registering as a Smi the identity in itself one must declare that one truly consider oneself a Smi. Objective criteria vary, but are generally related to kinship and/or language.

Sami family at spring celebration

Still, due to the cultural assimilation of the Sami people that had occurred in the four countries over the centuries, population estimates are difficult to measure precisely.[82] The population has been estimated to be between 80,000 and 135,000[83][84] across the whole Nordic region, including urban areas such as Oslo, Norway, traditionally considered outside Spmi. The Norwegian state recognizes any Norwegian as Smi if he or she has one great-grandparent whose home language was Smi, but there is not, and has never been, any registration of the home language spoken by Norwegian people. Roughly half of all Smi live in Norway, but many live in Sweden, with smaller groups living in the far north of Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. The Smi in Russia were forced by the Soviet authorities to relocate to a collective called Lovozero/Lujvri, in the central part of the Kola Peninsula.

Division by geography
Spmi is traditionally divided into: Eastern Sapmi (Kola peninsula, eastern Norway and Finland Sami regions) Northern Spmi (most of northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland) Lule Spmi (Lule River valley area) Southern Spmi (southern Sweden and Norway Sami area)

It should also be noted that many Sami now live outside Spmi, in large cities such as Oslo in Norway.

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Division by language
Below is a division based on Sami language (the numbers are the estimated number of speakers of each language):[] Davvismegiella (Northern Sami): 15,000 Julevsmegiella (Lule Sami): 1,500 (Sam' kll, Kildin Sami): 650 Nurttsm (Skolt Sami): 500 Lullismegiella (Southern Sami): 500 Anarkiel (Inari Sami): 300 Ter Sami: 2 Ume Sami: <20 Pite Sami: <20 There are also two extinct Sami languages: Kemi Sami and Akkala Sami. Note that many Sami do not speak any of the Sami languages any more due to historical assimilation policies, so the number of Sami living in each area is much higher. As with many indigenous languages,[85] all Sami languages are at some degree of endangerment, ranging from what UNESCO defines as "definitely endangered" to "critically endangered" (and even "extinct").[]
Geographic distribution of the Sami languages: 1. Southern Sami, 2. Ume Sami, 3. Pite Sami, 4. Lule Sami, 5. Northern Sami, 6. Skolt Sami, 7. Inari Sami, 8. Kildin Sami, 9. Ter Sami. Darkened area represents municipalities that recognize Sami as an official language.

Division by occupation
A division often used in Northern Sami is based on occupation and the area of living. This division is also used in many historical texts: Non-reindeer Sami not living by the sea (in Northern Sami dalon). Non-nomadic Sami. Is now probably the largest group of Sami. Reindeer Sami (in Northern Sami boazosapmelash or badjeolmmosh). Previously nomadic Sami living as reindeer herders. Now most have a permanent residence in the Sami core areas. Some 10% of Sami practice reindeer herding, which is seen as a fundamental part of a Sami culture and, in some parts of the Nordic countries, can only be practiced by Samis. Sea Sami (in Northern Sami mearasapmelash). These lived traditionally by combining fishing and small-scale farming. Today, often used for all Sami from the coast regardless of their occupation. Historical texts often divide the Sami into: Forest Sami, Mountain Sami, River Sami, and Eastern Sami.[86]

Division by country
According to the Swedish Sami Parliament, the Sami population of Norway is 40,000. If all people who speak Sami or have a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent who speaks or spoke Sami are included, the number reaches 70,000. As of 2005, 12,538 people were registered to vote in the election for the Sami Parliament in Norway.[87] The bulk of the Sami live in Finnmark and Northern Troms, but there are also Sami populations in Southern Troms, Nordland and Trndelag. Due to recent migration, it has also been claimed that Oslo is the municipality with the

Sami people largest Sami population. The Sami are in a majority only in the municipalities of Guovdageaidnu-Kautokeino, Karasjohka-Karasjok, Porsanger, Deatnu-Tana and Unjargga-Nesseby in Finnmark, and Givuotna (Kfjord) in Northern Troms. This area is also known as the Sami core area. Sami and Norwegian are equal as administrative languages in this area. According to the Swedish Sami Parliament, the Sami population of Sweden is about 20,000. According to the Finnish Population Registry Center and the Finnish Sami Parliament, the Sami population living in Finland was 7,371 in 2003.[88] As of 31 December 2006, only 1776 of them had registered to speak one of the Sami languages as the mother tongue.[89] According to the 2002 census, the Sami population of Russia was 1,991. Since 1926, the number of identified Sami in Russia has gradually increased: Census 1926: 1,720 (this number refers to the entire Soviet Union) Census 1939: 1,829 Census 1959: 1,760 Census 1970: 1,836 Census 1979: 1,775 Census 1989: 1,835

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Census 2002: 1,991

Sami immigration outside of Sapmi


There are an estimated 30,000 people living in North America who are either Sami, or descendants of Sami.[90] Most have settled in areas that are known to have Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish immigrants. Some of these concentrated areas are Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Illinois, California, Washington, Utah and Alaska; and throughout Canada, including the Canadian territories of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and the territory now known as Nunavut. Descendants of these Sami immigrants typically know little of their heritage, because their ancestors purposely hid their indigenous culture to avoid discrimination from the dominating Scandinavian or Nordic culture. Though some of these Sami are diaspora that moved to North America in order to escape assimilation policies in their home countries, many continued to downplay their Sami culture in an internalization of colonial viewpoints about indigenous peoples and in order for them to try to blend into their respective Nordic cultures. There were also several Sami families that were brought to North America with herds of reindeer by the U.S. and Canadian governments as part of the "Reindeer Project" designed teach the Inuit about reindeer herding.[91]
Reindeer in Alaska

Some of these Sami immigrants and descendants of immigrants are members of the Sami Siida of North America. There are Sami whose history is known, and also ones with histories that are not known. Back in the 1600s Sweden began the settlement of its New Sweden Colony (now Delaware). This included Sami families rounded up in winter time. This continued for a number of years and included hundreds of trips between Sweden and America.[citation
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For a variety of reasons some of these Sami relocated to the Chesapeake Bay area and to roughly what is now Lancaster county PA. Later, with the arrival of the Quakers, they relocated to York county PA ~ just one of the reasons the county has the same township names as Lancaster.[citation needed]

Sami people Over time that community expanded and moved West, leaving behind a legacy in a series of towns, townships, villages and small cities typified by having names that include the word "Deer." Some places also have Christmas theme names, such as Santa Claus, Indiana.[citation needed]

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Organization
Spmi demonstrates a distinct semi-national identity that transcends the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. There is no movement for complete autonomy.[citation needed]

Sami Parliaments
The Sami Parliaments (Smediggi in Northern Sami, Smitigge in Inari Sami, Smte in Skolt Sami) founded in Finland (1973), Norway (1989) and Sweden (1993) are the representative bodies for peoples of Sami heritage. Russia has not recognized the Sami as a minority and, as a result, recognizes no Sami parliament. There is no single, unified Sami parliament that spans across the Nordic countries. Rather, each of the aforementioned three countries has set up their own separate legislatures for Sami people, even though the three Sami Parliaments often work together on cross-border issues. In all three countries, they act as an institution of cultural autonomy for the indigenous Sami people. The parliaments have very weak political influence, far from autonomy. They are formally public authorities, ruled by the Scandinavian governments, but have democratically elected parliamentarians, whose mission is to work for the Sami people and culture. Candidates' election promises often get into conflict with the institutions' submission under their governments, but as authorities, they have some influence over the government.

Ann Mari Thomassen, Norwegian Sami Association

Norwegian organizations
The main organisations for Sami representation in Norway are the siidas. They cover northern and central Norway.

Swedish organizations
The main organisations for Sami representation in Sweden are the siidas. They cover northern and central Sweden.
Sven-Roald Nyst, Aili Keskitalo and Ole Henrik Magga, the three first presidents of the Sami Parliament of Norway.

Finnish organizations

In contrast to Norway and Sweden, in Finland, a siida (paliskunta in Finnish) is a reindeer-herding corporation that is not restricted by ethnicity. There are indeed some ethnic Finns who practice reindeer herding, and in principle, all residents of the reindeer herding area (most of Finnish Lapland and parts of Oulu province) who are citizens of EEA countries,[92] i.e., the European Union and Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, are allowed to join a paliskunta.

Russian organizations

Sami people In 2010, the Sami Council supported the establishment of a cultural center in Russia for Arctic peoples. The Center for Northern Folk aims to promote artistic and cultural cooperation between the Arctic peoples of Russia and the Nordic countries, with particular focus on indigenous peoples and minorities.[93]

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Border conflicts
Spmi, the Sami traditional lands, cross four national borders. Traditional summer and winter pastures sometimes lie on different sides of the borders of the nation-states. In addition to that, there is a border drawn for modern-day Spmi. Some state that the rights (for reindeer herding and, in some parts, even for fishing and hunting) include not only modern Spmi but areas that are beyond today's Spmi that reflect older territories. Today's "borders" originate from the 14th to 16th centuries when land-owning conflicts occurred. The establishment of more stable dwelling places and larger towns originates from the 16th century and was performed for strategic defence and economic reasons, both by peoples from Sami groups themselves and more southern immigrants.

Land rights for grazing reindeer

Owning land within the borders or being a member of a siida (Sami corporation) gives rights. A different law enacted in Sweden in the mid-1990s gave the right to anyone to fish and hunt in the region, something that was met with large skepticism and anger amongst the siidas. Court proceedings have been common throughout history, and the aim from the Sami viewpoint is to reclaim territories used earlier in history. Due to a major defeat in 1996, one siida has introduced a sponsorship "Reindeer Godfather" concept to raise funds for further battles in courts. These "internal conflicts" are usually conflicts between non-Sami land owners and reindeer owners. Cases question the Sami ancient rights to reindeer pastures. In 2010, Sweden was criticized for its relations with the Sami in the Universal Periodic Review conducted by the Working Group of the Human Rights Council.[] The question whether the fjeld's territory is owned by the governments (crown land) or by the Sami population is not answered.[citation needed] From an indigenous perspective, people "belong to the land", the land does not belong to people, but this does not mean that hunters, herders, and fishing people do not know where the borders of their territories are located as well as those of their neighbors.[]

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National symbols
Although the Sami have considered themselves to be one people throughout history, the idea of Spmi, a Sami nation, first gained acceptance among the Sami in the 1970s, and even later among the majority population. During the 1980s and 1990s, a flag was created, a national song was written, and the date of a national day was settled.

Flag
The Sami flag was inaugurated during the Sami Conference in re, Sweden, on 15 August 1986. It was the result of a competition for which many suggestions were entered. The winning design was submitted by the artist Astrid Bhl from Skibotn, Norway. The motif (shown right) was derived from the shaman's drum and the poem "Paiven parneh" ("Sons of the Sun") by the South Sami Anders Fjellner describing the Sami as sons and daughters of the sun. The flag has the Sami colours, red, green, yellow and blue, and the circle represents the sun (red) and the moon (blue).

Sami flag

The Sami People's Day


The Sami National Day falls on February 6 as this date was when the first Sami congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway. This congress was the first time that Norwegian and Swedish Sami came together across their national borders to work together to find solutions for common problems. The resolution for celebrating on 6 February was passed in 1992 at the 15th Sami congress in Helsinki. Since 1993, Norway, Sweden and Finland have recognized February 6 as Sami National Day.

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"Song of the Sami People"


"Smi soga lvlla" ("Song of the Sami People", lit. "Song of the Sami Family") was originally a poem written by Isak Saba that was published in the newspaper Sagai Muittalgje for the first time on 1 April 1906. In August 1986, it became the national anthem of the Sami. Arne Srli set the poem to music, which was then approved at the 15th Sami Conference in Helsinki in 1992. "Smi soga lvlla" has been translated into all of the Sami languages.

Religion
Widespread Shamanism persisted among the Sami up until the 18th century. Most Sami today belong to the state-run Lutheran churches of Norway, Sweden and Finland. Some Sami in Russia belong to the Russian Orthodox Church, and similarly, some Skolt Sami resettled in Finland are also part of an Eastern Orthodox congregation, with an additional small population in Norway.

Traditional Sami religion


Traditional Sami religion was a type of polytheistic paganism. (See Sami deities.) There was some diversity due to the wide area that is Spmi, allowing for the evolution of variations in beliefs and practices between tribes. The old beliefs are closely connected to the land, animism, and the supernatural. Sami spirituality is often characterized by pantheism, a strong emphasis on the importance of personal spirituality and its interconnectivity with one's own daily life, and a Copper etching (1767) by O.H. von Lode deep connection between the natural and spiritual "worlds".[94] Among showing a noaidi with his meavrresgrri drum other roles, the Sami Shaman, or noaidi, enabled ritual communication with the supernatural[95] through the use of tools such as drums, chants, and sacred objects.[] Some practices within the Old Sami religion included natural sacred sites such as mountains, springs, land formations, as well as man-made ones such as petroglyphs and labyrinths.[96] Sami religion shared some elements with Norse mythology, possibly from early contacts with trading Vikings (or vice versa). Through a mainly French initiative from Joseph Paul Gaimard as part of his La Recherche Expedition, Lars Levi Lstadius began research on Sami mythology. His work resulted in Fragments of Lappish Mythology, since by his own admission, they contained only a small percentage of what had existed. The fragments were termed Theory of Gods, Theory of Sacrifice, Theory of Prophecy, or short reports about rumorous Sami magic and Sami sagas. Generally, he claims to have filtered out the Norse influence and derived common elements between the South, North, and Eastern Sami groups. The mythology has common elements with other traditional indigenous religions as well such as those in Siberia and North America.

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Missionary efforts
The term Sami religion usually refers to the traditional religion, practiced by most Smi until approximately the 18th century. Christianity was introduced by Roman Catholic missionaries as early as the 13th century. Increased pressure came after the Protestant Reformation, and rune drums were burned or sent to museums abroad. In this period, many Sami practiced their traditional religion at home, while going to church on Sunday. Since the Sami were considered to possess "witchcraft" powers, they were often accused of sorcery during the 17th century and were the subjects of witchcraft trials and burnings.[97] In Norway, a major effort to convert the Sami was made around 1720, when Thomas von Westen, the "Apostle of the Sami", burned drums, burned sacred objects, and converted people.[] Out of the estimated thousands of drums prior to this period, only about 70 are known to remain today, scattered in museums around Europe.[] Sacred sites were destroyed, such as sieidi (stones in natural or human-built formations), lda and sivu (sacred hills), springs, caves and other natural formations where offerings were made. In the far east of the Sami area, the Russian monk Trifon converted the Sami in the 16th century. Today, St. George's chapel in Neiden, Norway (1565), testifies to this effort.

Tore Johnsen, Sami Christian priest and leader of the Sami Church Council, and an important figure at the 2004 Samiske kirkedager

A sermon at the 2004 Samiske kirkedager

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Laestadius
The Swedish Sami vicar Lars Levi Lstadius initiated a puritan Lutheran movement among the Sami around 1840. This movement is still very dominant in Sami-speaking areas. Lstadius was a natural linguist, taking it upon himself to become fluent in Finnish and the North Smi and South Smi, in addition to his knowledge of Swedish, the language he used for scholarly publications.[]

Neo-shamanism and traditional healing


Today there are a number of Sami who seek to return to the traditional Pagan values of their ancestors. There are also some Sami that claim to be noaidi and offer their services through newspaper advertisements, in New Age arrangements, or for tourist groups. While they practice a religion based on that of their ancestors, widespread anti-pagan prejudice has caused these shamans to be generally not viewed as part of an unbroken Sami religious tradition. Traditional Smi beliefs are composed of three intertwining elements: animism, shamanism, and polytheism. Smi animism is manifested in the Smis belief that all Noaidi drum significant natural objects (such as animals, plants, rocks, etc.) possess a soul, and from a polytheistic perspective, traditional Smi beliefs include a multitude of spirits.[] Many contemporary practitioners are compared with practitioners of neo-paganism, as a number of neopagan religions likewise combine elements of ancient pagan religions with more recent revisions or innovations, but others feel they are attempting to revive or reconstruct indigenous Sami religions as found in historic, folkloric sources and oral traditions. A very different religious idea is represented by the numerous "wise men" and "wise women" found throughout the Sami area. They often attempt to heal the sick through rituals and traditional medicines and may also combine traditional elements, such as older Sami teachings, with newer monotheistic inventions that Christian missionaries taught their ancestors, such as readings from the Bible.

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Language
There is no single Sami language, but a group of ten distinct Sami languages. Six of these languages have their own written standards. The Sami languages are relatively closely related, but not mutually intelligible; for instance, speakers of Southern Sami cannot understand Northern Sami. Especially earlier, these distinct languages were referred to as "dialects", but today, this is considered misleading due to the deep differences between the varieties. Most Sami languages are spoken in several countries, because linguistic borders do not correspond to national borders. All Sami languages are endangered. This is due in part to historic laws prohibiting the use of Sami languages in schools and at home in Sweden and Norway. Sami languages, and Sami song-chants, called yoiks, were illegal in Norway from 1773 until 1958. Then, access to Sami instruction as part of schooling was not available until 1988. Special residential schools that would assimilate the Sami into the dominant culture were established. These were originally run by missionaries, but later, controlled by the government. For example, in E.W. Borg alphabet book, published in 1859 in Russia, Sami children were taken away when aged 12 and returned Finnish-Inari Sami when aged 1517 with no knowledge of their language and traditional communities. Not all Sami viewed the schools negatively, and not all of the schools were brutal. However, being taken from home and prohibited from speaking Sami has resulted in cultural alienation, loss of language, and lowered self-esteem.[98] The Sami languages belong to the Uralic language family, linguistically related to Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian. Due to prolonged contact and import of items foreign to Sami culture from neighboring Scandinavians, there are a number of Germanic loanwords in Sami, particularly for "urban" objects. The majority of the Sami now speak the majority languages of the countries they live in, i.e., Swedish, Russian, Finnish and Norwegian. Efforts are being made to further the use of Sami languages among Sami and persons of Sami origin. Despite these changes, the legacy of cultural repression still exists. Many older Sami still refuse to speak Sami. In addition, Sami parents still feel alienated from schools and hence do not participate as much as they could in shaping school curricula and policy.[99] In Norway, the name of the language and the people is often spelled Saami; in Finland, the name of the language is spelled Saame and the name of the people Saamelainen.

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Genetic studies
Anthropologists have been studying the Sami people for hundreds of years for their assumed physical and cultural differences from the rest of the Europeans. Recent genetic studies have indicated that the two most frequent maternal lineages of the Smi people are the haplogroups V and U5b, ancient in Europe. "The Y-chromosomal variety in the Saami is also consistent with their European ancestry. It suggests that the large genetic separation of the Saami from other Europeans is best explained by assuming that the Saami are descendants of a narrow, distinctive subset of Europeans." [100][101] Other haplogroups suggest additional input from other populations at various times. This tallies with archeological evidence suggesting that several different cultural groups made their way to the core area of Sami from 8000 to 6000BC,[102] presumably including some of the ancestors of present-day Sami.

History of scientific research carried out on the Sami

Sami mother with her children

The genetic makeup of Sami people has been extensively studied for as long as such research has been in existence, although until recent times, the purpose of this research has mostly been at best ethnocentric, at worst racist and defamatory. Ethnographic photography of the Sami began with the invention of the camera in the 19th century.[103] This continued on into the 1920s and 1930s, when Sami were photographed naked and anatomically measured by scientists, with the help of the local police sometimes at gunpoint to collect data that would justify their own racial theories.[104] Thus, there is a degree of distrust by some in the Sami community towards genetic research.[104] Some examples of racist research are: the Statens Institut for Rasbiologi compulsory sterilization project for Sami women, which continued until 1975,[105] and Sami graves being plundered to provide research materials,[106][107][] of which their remains and artifacts from this period from across Spmi can still be found in various state collections.[][][108][109] In the late 19th century, colonial fascination with Arctic peoples led to human beings exhibited in human zoos. Sami people were exhibited with their traditional lavvu tents, weapons, and sleds, beside a group of reindeer at Tierpark Hagenbeck[110] and other zoos across the globe.

Notable people of Sami descent


Explorers and adventurers
Samuel Balto (18611921), Arctic explorer one of the first people to cross Greenland on skis (together with Nansen) and gold miner. Lars Monsen (1963present) adventurer, explorer, journalist and author.[111]

Lars Monsen, adventurer, bushcraftsman, journalist

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Literature
Ella Holm Bull (19292006), author, musician. Anders Fjellner (17951876), Protestant priest and poet. Wrote down the mythological joik that inspired the Smi flag. Ailo Gaup (1944present), an author and neo-shaman who participated in founding the Beaivv Smi Theatre. Isak Mikal Saba (18751925), politician and writer. Was the first Sami parliamentarian (Norwegian Labour Party) and wrote the Sami national anthem. Johan Turi (18541936), wrote one of the first novels in the Smi language.[112] Nils-Aslak Valkeap (19432001), musician, poet and artist. Gladys Koski Holmes (19322005), a Sami-American artist, writer, and poet. Holmes won poetry awards, published a children's book, and was the Sami Siida of North America's ambassador to the Siida art show at the NANA festival in Troms.[113][114][115]

Vajas, Sami musical group

Music
Vajas, popular musical group. nde Somby, Sami musician and law professor. Adjagas, musical group. Mari Boine (1956present), musician. ystein Aarseth, former guitarist for black metal band Mayhem Ingor nte ilo Gaup (1960present), actor, composer, and folk musician. Sofia Jannok (1982present), performer, musician and radio host. Joni Mitchell (1943present), musician and painter.[116][] Wimme Saari (1959present), musician. Lisa Cecilia Thomasson-Bosi, or Lapp-Lisa (18781932), singer. Nils-Aslak Valkeap (19432001), musician, poet and artist. Niko Valkeap (1968present), musician and songwriter. Mikkl Morottaja (1984present), rap musician.[117] Jonne Jrvel (1974present), musician and songwriter. Ulla Pirttijrvi (1971present), joik singer. The Blacksheeps, punk rock band. Berit Margrethe Oskal(1977present), Sami joiker and musician.
Sami singer Niko Valkeap Sami singer Mari Boine

Sami people working in film and theatre


Beaivv Smi Theatre Mikkel Gaup, actor.

Sami actor Mikkel Gaup in 1987 Norwegian-Sami film Ofelas (Pathfinder)

Nils Gaup (1955present), film director. Well-known films include Ofelas (Pathfinder), which was nominated for an Academy Award, and the 2008 film Kautokeino-Opprret, based on the Kautokeino Rebellion.

Sami people Anni-Kristiina Juuso (1979present), actress. Tommy Wirkola (1979), Norwegian filmmaker of Finnish Sami descent. Lance Henriksen (1940), actor of Norwegian parentage; his grandmother was Sami. Rene Zellweger (1969), Oscar-winning actress whose Norwegian mother is of partial Sami descent.

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Politics and society


Margareta (ca 1369ca 1425), missionary. Lars Levi Laestadius (180061), religious reformist, bothanist and ethnologist.[118] Ole Henrik Magga (1947present), politician. The first President of the Norwegian Smi Parliament (NSR) and first Chairman of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Helga Pedersen (1973present) politician. The first Sami member of Government (Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, Norwegian Labour Party).[119] Elsa Laula Renberg (18771931), politician who among other things organized the first international Sami conference. Isak Mikal Saba (18751925), politician and writer. Was the first Sami parliamentarian (Norwegian Labour Party) and wrote the Sami national anthem. Janne Seurujrvi (1975present), politician. The first Sami member of Parliament of Finland.

Sami actress Anni-Kristiina Juuso

Sami skier Anja Prson

Visual arts
Hans Ragnar Mathisen, artist.[120] Joni Mitchell (1943present) musician and painter.[116][] Nils-Aslak Valkeap (19432001), musician, poet and artist.

Sports
Ailo Gaup (1980present), a motorcross sportsman who invented the "underflip". Morten Gamst Pedersen (1981present), Football player (currently playing for Blackburn Rovers).[121] Brje Salming (1951present), legendary NHL defenseman, member of Hockey Hall of Fame, voted to the IIHF all-century team. Anja Prson (1981present) and Jens Byggmark (1985present), alpine skiers.[122] The Spmi national football team.

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Other
Graan, the single noble family of Smi descent (Swedish nobility).

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External links
Saami Council (http://www.saamicouncil.net/?deptid=1116) Sami people (http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/Sami//) at the Open Directory Project

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