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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]
Anders Poulsen or Poala-Ánde (in Northern Sámi; died 1692), was a North Sami noaidi, who was the last victim of the many Vardø witch trials, which took place between 1621 and 1692. [1] In Sámi form his name was Poala-Ánde. Anders Poulsen's Sámi drum.
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] Frozen (2013), features a major character named Kristoff who wears clothing resembling Sámi attire and has a pet reindeer.
Lars Nilsson (died 1693) was a Sami who was burned at the stake [1] for being a follower of the old Sami religion in Arjeplog [2] in Sweden during the time of the Christianization of the Sámi people. [3]
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 ...
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 ...
Swedification refers to the spread and/or imposition of the Swedish language, people and culture or policies which introduced these changes. In the context of Swedish expansion within Scandinavia, Swedification can refer to both the integration of Scania, Jemtland and Bohuslen in the 1600s and governmental policies regarding Sámi, Tornedalians and Finns during the 1800s and 1900s.
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.