AMTHEM OF SAAMI

The Sami people (also Sámi, Saami, Lapps, sometimes also Laplanders) are an indigenous people of northern Europe inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. Their ancestral lands span across an area the size of Sweden in the Nordic countries. The Sami people are among the largest indigenous groups in Europe. Their languages are the Sami languages, which are classified as Finno-Ugric.

The cultural assimilation over many years of the Sami people in the four countries makes it difficult to estimate the numbers of Sami. However, the population is estimated at about 85,000. The Norwegian state recognizes any Norwegian as Sami if he or she has one great-grandparent whose home language was Sami, but there is not, and has not been, any registration of the home language spoken by Norwegian people. Roughly half of all Sami live in Norway, but many live in Sweden as well. Finland and Russia are also home to smaller groups located in the far north. The Sami in Russia were forced by the Soviet authorities to relocate to a collective called Lovozero/Lujávri, in the central part of the Kola Peninsula.

Traditionally, the Sami had a variety of livelihoods; fishing on the coast and in the inland, trapping animals for fur, sheep herding, etc. The best known livelihood is reindeer herding, but only a small percentage of the Sami have been mainly reindeer herders over the last centuries. Today, many Sami lead modern lives in the cities inside and outside the traditional Sami area, with modern jobs. Some 10% still practice reindeer herding, which for traditional and cultural reasons is reserved for Sami people in some parts of Nordic countries.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• World
• music
• Documentary
• National
• Anthem

[WDisharoon]

To the Europeans arguing with people you presume to be Americans: Let the ignorant be ignorant and don't follow their flames like moths. Ignore them; their only jollies are from inciting anger rather than from stimulating conversation - its compensation for all that they lack. Is there a dislike by the Swedes of Sami people (it is evident in a popular trilogy)?

Also to Emsann: I doubt most Swedes even care who your first king WAS other than for preservation of history.

[rocktrollet]

Very beautiful anthem.

And such an ugly debate.

[XxSciencELotusxX]

my bro name is sami and we are pakistani

[TheEmsann]

@namatson Hey,listen. There are some americans who talks alot crap about my country. Sweden,not Finland. I hope you don't think the sami people are ONLY from Finland. And i was talking about Sweden,not Finland! And americans think they can so much about Sweden,but they don't. And you are Finish American,you are like Finish. And you have to know,that i don't mean all americans,but the people who is talking alot of shit about my country! And America is a country full of racism!

[namatson]

@TheEmsann Emsann, listen friend. Please do not pit America as one place that thinks the same. It is as vast as Europe. We are not a fluid race or even regions that get along. I am a Finish American from a settlement of very strong Finnish culture in the NW of America with very strong ties to our old homeland. In my region we were a free territory that celebrates the fact that we were not American in origin but that America spread west to our already independent settlements. Many of us know.

[Girrovv]

It sounds very beautiful.....

[TheEmsann]

@ranger08supercub

And i think i know more about that,becouse i am from sweden and my great grandma and grandfather

was sami!

You americans think you so much about Sweden,but in fact you don't.

I know that a swede knows much better than you,we live in sweden you don't!

I don't think you even know our first king in sweden.

And we swedes does not think that skåne belongs to us,they're accent is from danmark.

Just one thing you can know about us swedes,how we think.

[TheEmsann]

@ranger08supercub

Why?

Just becouse your heritage are from lappland that doesn't mean that you have

sami roots or whatever you say in english.

My great grandma was sami,she was not from lappland.

[ranger08supercub]

@TheEmsann

 I disagree

[andyblyth1878]

good anthem