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Sámi people

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During the years of , the areas in which reindeer herding was an important livelihood were among the few where the Sami culture and language survived. Sports and games of medieval cultures. Borg alphabet book, published in 1859 in Finnish- There is no single Sámi language, but a group of ten distinct. Sámi people outside 1900—1920 Total population Estimated 80,000—100,000 or more Regions with significant populations Sápmi 63,831—107,341 37,890—60,000 14,600—36,000 9,350 1,991 480 first ancestry 945 first and second 136 Languages , , , , , , , , , , , , , Religion including , Related ethnic groups Other The Sámi people also spelled Sami or Saami are an indigenous inhabiting , which today encompasses large northern parts of and , northern parts of , and the within the of. The Sámi Act provides special rights for the Sámi people ibid.

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Grimes; Joseph Evans Grimes 2000. Archived from on 18 August 2010. Kautokeino also hosts the , which includes the Sámi Grand Prix 2010 Sámi Musicfestival and the Reindeer Racing World Cup. In the far east of the Sami area, the Russian monk Trifon converted the Sami in the 16th century. 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. In the eastern areas of Sápmi the dance tradition has been more continuous and is continued by groups such as Johtti Kompani.

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The municipality has a Sámi-language center and hosts the. Since many do not have roots, they absorb nutrients, and toxic compounds, through their leaves. The law does not recognize development rights, some proprietary rights including compensation for damage to the property, and limited exclusionary rights. To the Sámi, this is an insulting display of cultural exploitation. Presently, about 2,800 people are engaged in reindeer herding in Norway. The Local: Sweden's News in English. This has effectively allowed the Finnish government to take without compensation, motivated by economic gain, land occupied by the Sámi for centuries.

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Variants of the name Lapp were originally used in Sweden and Finland and, through Swedish, adopted by many major European languages: English: Lapps; German, : Lappen; : Lapons; : Λάπωνες Lápōnes ; : lappok; : Lapponi; : Lapończycy; : Lapões; : Lapones; : laponi; : Lapon. Yoiks can be dedicated to animals and birds in nature, special people or special occasions, and they can be joyous, sad or melancholic. Roads constructed in connection with oil and gas exploration and development destroy and degrade pastureland, ancestral burial grounds, and sacred sites and increase hunting by oil workers on the territory used by indigenous peoples. The game is related to South Scandinavian , Arabian and Indian tablan. Of those, 36 cases involved a determination of the rights of individual Sámi in Finland and Sweden. In Norway, Sweden and Finland Sámi are primarily Lutheran; Skolt Sámi of Finland and Sámi of Russia are primarily orthodox Christians.

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Men mostly use wood, bone, and antlers to make items such as antler-handled , , and burl cups. With such massive population drops caused by the Black Death, the tax revenues from this industry greatly diminished. In 1989, the first Sami parliament in Norway was elected. Hats vary by sex, season, and region. Currently about 10% of the Sámi are connected to reindeer herding, providing them with meat, fur, and transportation.

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Lansman versus Finland concerned a challenge by Sámi reindeer herders in northern Finland to the Finnish Central Forestry Board's plans to approve logging and construction of roads in an area used by the herdsmen as winter pasture and spring calving grounds. The parliaments have very weak political influence, far from autonomy. Of these languages, Inari Sámi, which is spoken by about 350 speakers, is the only one that is used entirely within the borders of Finland, mainly in the municipality of Inari. The geographical distribution of the Sámi has evolved over the course of history. København, Kristiania: Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag.

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Ethnographic photography of the Sami began with the invention of the camera in the 19th century. From the the Sámi occupied the area off the coast of Finnmark and the Kola peninsula. They often are based on syllablic improvisation. The Finnmarkseiendommen organization owns and manages about 95% of the land in Finnmark, and 50% of its board members are elected by the Norwegian Sámi Parliament. It was the result of a competition for which many suggestions were entered. The Sámi refer to themselves as Sámit the Sámis or Sápmelaš of Sámi kin , the word Sámi being into various grammatical forms.

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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 and. They have never been a single community in a single region of Lapland, which until recently was considered only a cultural region. This caused the in the 1920s, which increased the gap between local Sami groups something still present today that sometimes has the character of an internal Sami ethnic conflict. Through a mainly French initiative from as part of his , began research on Sami mythology. Their traditional languages are the and are classified as a branch of the.

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In Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Justice, Lexington Books. Among the reindeer herders in Sámi villages, the women usually have a higher level of formal education in the area. Archived from on May 11, 2011. Arne Sørli set the poem to music, which was then approved at the 15th Sami Conference in in 1992. In Norwegian, the Sámi are today referred to by the Norwegianized form Same. In recent years, musical instruments frequently accompany yoiks. Some Eastern Sámi also have a hooded jumper малиц from reindeer skins with wool inside and above the knee boots.

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Depending on the , sixty to seventy-six percent of the northern Norwegian farms were abandoned following the plague, while land-rents, another possible measure of the population numbers, dropped down to 9—28% of pre-plague rents. . This is due in part to historic laws prohibiting the use of Sámi languages in schools and at home in Sweden and Norway. Det Norske Geografiske Selskabs årbog in Norwegian. The Sámi hunted reindeer and fished for their livelihood. The Russian Federation ratified the 1966 U.

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