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Midnight Sun (2016), crime series which revolves around Sámi culture and conflicts of Sámi culture with modern Swedish society [216] Sami Blood (2016), a movie chronicling the life of a Sámi girl taken into a Swedish boarding school to be forcibly assimilated as a Swede [217]
On the Swedish and Finnish side, the authorities were much less militant in their efforts; however, strong economic development in the north led to a weakening of status and economy for the Sámi. The strongest pressure took place from around 1900 to 1940, when Norway invested considerable money and effort to wipe out Sámi culture.
Britta Marakatt-Labba (born 1951), Swedish Sami textile artist; Maxida Märak (born 1988), Swedish-Sami yoik singer, actress and activist; Lajla Mattsson Magga (born 1942), Swedish-born Norwegian Sami teacher, children's writer and lexicographer; Maria Magdalena Mathsdotter (1835–1873), Swedish Sami school founder
Forest Sami settlement at Spänningsvallen between Järfojaur and Seudnur, designated since 1971 as the Arvidsjaur Municipality. 1873 woodcut based on a photograph.. The forest Sámi (Swedish: Skogssamer) are Sámi people who lived in the woods and who, unlike the reindeer-herding Sámi people (the "fell Sámi"), did not move up into the fells during the summer season.
Madder-Attje - husband of Maderakka and father of the tribe. While his wife gives newborns their bodies, he gives them their souls. Mano, Manna, or Aske - god of the moon; Mubpienålmaj - the god of evil, influenced by the Christian Satan; Radien-attje - Creator and high god, the creator of the world and the head divinity. In Sámi religion, he ...
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 ...
Based on historic Swedification policies that distinguished between settled and nomadic Sámi, membership in Swedish siida s is essentially limited to those whose ancestors were nomads before 1886, barring the majority of Swedish Sámi from membership in a siida.
Traditionally, if the buttons on the belt are square, it shows the wearer is married. If they are round, the person is unmarried. If a married couple divorce, and the ex-husband still continues to use the Sami costume made by his ex-wife, he states by this that he wants her back. [citation needed]