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Elsa Laula Renberg was born on the 29th of November 1877 to Lars Thomasson Laula (1846–1899) and Kristina Josefina Larsdotter (1847–1912). Her place of birth is debated as her family lived in a Siida on the border of Norway and Sweden, however regardless she was born in Sápmi territory.
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.
Margareta (c.1369–c.1425), Swedish Sami missionary; Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter (1835–1873), Swedish Sami founder of Sami schools; Randi Marainen (born 1953), Norwegian-born Swedish Sami silversmith; Britta Marakatt-Labba (born 1951), Swedish Sami textile artist; Maxida Märak (born 1988), Swedish-Sami yoik singer, actress and activist
Maxida Märak (born 1988), Swedish Sámi yoik singer, musician, actress and rights activist; Espen Minde (born 1983), Norwegian footballer [citation needed] Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter (1835–1873), Swedish Sámi founder of Sami schools; Matti Morottaja (born 1942), Finnish Sámi politician and writer; Silje Karine Muotka (born 1975 ...
Teachers followed Sámi reindeer herders to provide education for the children, but Sámi areas were increasingly exploited by the then new mines in Kiruna and Gällivare and the construction of the Luleå-Narvik railway. Later, with the founding of the Swedish Race Biology Institute, Sámi graves were plundered to provide research material ...
The act was modeled in part on Norwegian and Swedish policies on the ownership of reindeer by the Sami people of Sápmi. Many Sámi had recently arrived in Alaska to manage the reindeer in the 1930s. As a result of the act, Alaskan Sámi were required to sell their herds to the government at $3 per head.
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 ...
Anders Fjellner in traditional Sámi gákti in 1871. Photo by Lotten von Düben.. Throughout his life, as he moved around northern Sweden, Fjellner collected and preserved Sámi folktales, joik, and traditions, which became the root of much of his poetry, including the epics "Päiven Pārne'" (Sons of the Sun) and "Piššan Paššan Pardne" (Son of Pišša and Pašša) and two shorter poems ...