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The boundary agreement between Sweden and Norway (Stromstad Treaty of 1751) had an annex, frequently called Lapp Codicil of 1751, Lappkodicillen or "Sami Magna Carta". It has the same meaning for Sámi even today (or at least till 2005), but is only a convention between Sweden and Norway and does not include Finland and Russia. It regulates how ...
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.
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
Louise Bäckman grew up in the Sámi village of Vapsten [] and went to Sámi residential and nomadic schools for five years. [2] Throughout her childhood and college years, she experienced anti-Sámi prejudice, as Sámi were not allowed to live in houses, and she and her classmates were punished for speaking their mother tongue.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Jon Henrik Mario Fjällgren (born 26 April 1987 [citation needed]) is a Colombian-born Swedish-Sámi singer and jojkare, an interpreter of Sámi joik. He was the winner of Talang Sverige 2014, the Swedish version of Got Talent. [1] Upon winning the competition he released the music album Goeksegh.