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The Sámi (/ ˈ s ɑː m i / SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi-speaking indigenous people inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
The Sámi feminist movement first achieved cultural prominence in the 1970s. The equal status of Sámi women within reindeer husbandry has been an important issue within Sámi feminism. [1] In Sweden, male violence against Sámi women is an overlooked topic within discussions about domestic violence.
[11] [4] The Sami Siida of North America was also formed as a network connecting Sámi descendants in North America. These organizations have made efforts to reconnect with surviving Sámi populations in northern Scandinavia, and to revive traditional Sámi art forms, such as storytelling .
The uniqueness of the Sami gene pool has made it one of the most extensively studied genetic populations in the world. The most frequent Sami MtDNA (female) haplotype is U5b1b1 comprising nearly half of all haplotypes, with type V in around the same quantities, with some minor D, H and Z. [10]
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The region stretches over four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.To the north, it is bounded by the Barents Sea, Norwegian Sea, and White Sea. [2] [3] Lapland (/ ˈ l æ p l æ n d /) has been a historical term for areas inhabited by the Sami based on the older term "Lapp" for its inhabitants, a term which is now considered outdated or pejorative. [4]
Though Norway’s supreme court in 2021 ruled that two wind farms built at Fosen violated Sami - indigenous people of northern Norway - rights under international conventions, but the turbines ...
Astrid Båhl (born 1959), Norwegian Sami artist, designed the Sami flag; Katarina Barruk (born 1994), Swedish Sami singer who performs in the Ume Sami language; Matte Heatta Bjelland (born 1983), better known as Máddji, Norwegian-Sami singer, composer and soccer player; Ellen-Sylvia Blind (1925–2009), Swedish Sami writer