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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.
Sámi camp in Norway, c. 1900, painted by Wilhelm Peters Sámi people in Norway. In the 20th century, Norwegian authorities put the Sámi culture under pressure in order to make the Norwegian language and culture universal. A strong economical development of the north also took place, giving Norwegian culture and language status.
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term for areas inhabited by the Sami based on the older term "Lapp" for its inhabitants, a term which is now considered outdated or pejorative.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]
A Sámi family in Kanstadfjorden, around 1900. Fotokromtrykk.. The Norwegianization of the Sámi (Norwegian: fornorsking av samer) was an official policy carried out by the Norwegian government directed at the Sámi people and later the Kven people of northern Norway, in which the goal was to assimilate non-Norwegian-speaking native populations into an ethnically and culturally uniform ...
Queen Sonja of Norway has described art as a “unifying force in turbulent times” as she awarded the world’s most important prize for printmaking to Tomas Colbengtson, an indigenous Sámi artist.
The Komsa culture has thus become central again as the origin of northern Sweden's earliest inhabitants. Researchers no longer believe, however, that the people who left traces at Komsa lived out the Ice Age on the Northern Norwegian coast, rather that the coastal area was quickly colonised from the south during the final stages of the Ice Age.
Norway on Wednesday reached an agreement with the Sami people, ending a nearly three-year dispute over Europe’s largest onshore wind farm and the Indigenous right to raise reindeer. Energy ...
The Museum for Northern Peoples (Norwegian: Samtidsmuseet for nordlige folk; Northern Sami: Davvi álbmogiid dálážiid musea) is a museum located at the Center for Northern Peoples in Manndalen in Gáivuotna Municipality (Kåfjord) in Troms county, Norway. It covers the art and culture of northern peoples, and regional Sami culture and ...