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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.
The Rosenhane Collection, Library of Swedish National Heritage Board (Vitterhetsakademiens bibliotek ). Source/Photographer: Sami people in Härjedalen, Sweden. Uploaded by russavia. Photograph by: Jan Eve Olsson. 1995-01-01 00:00. Swedish National Heritage Board from Sweden: Permission (Reusing this file) Swedish National Heritage Board ...
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 ...
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.
A lavvu in the late 1800s, from "Norge i det nittende aarhundrede" (1900). A lavvu (or Northern Sami: lávvu, Lule Sami: låvdagoahte, Inari Sami: láávu, Skolt Sami: kååvas, Kildin Sami: коавас (kåvas), Finnish: kota or umpilaavu, Norwegian: lavvo or sametelt, and Swedish: kåta) is a temporary dwelling used by the Sami people of northern extremes of Northern Europe.
A goahti (Northern Sámi), goahte (Lule Sámi), gåhte (Pite Sámi), gåhtie (Ume Sámi) or gåetie (Southern Sámi), (also gábma), (Norwegian: gamme, Finnish: kota, Swedish: kåta), is a Sami hut or tent of three types of covering: fabric, peat moss or timber.
Vuojatädno, a watercourse in Padjelanta. The rock carvings are carved into soapstone mountainside. The early carvings feature harnessed Reindeer, [1] an animal of great importance to the Sámi well as anthropomorphs which may be early representations of the Finno-Uralic female deity Máttaráhkká. [2]
It includes Swedish people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.