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Their best-known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding. As of 2007 [update] about 10% of the Sámi were connected to reindeer herding, which provides them with meat, fur, and transportation; around 2,800 Sámi people were actively involved in reindeer herding on a full-time basis in Norway. [ 10 ]
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 ...
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.
Demant made another ethnographic visit to Sweden in 1910, where she lived in Glen with the South Sami couple Marta and Nils Nilsson. In 1913, she published Med lapperne i højfjeldet (translation: "With the Lapps in the High Mountains"), an account of Sami customs based on her one-year nomadic travels in 1907–08. [2]
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.
The Sami believed that madness (in the shape of psychoses and depression) were provoked by the lack of sunshine and light during the long, dark winter. In Sami myth, she travels with her daughter, Beaivi-nieida , through the sky in an enclosure covered by reindeer bones or antlers, bringing spring with them.
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