Sámi People
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| Norway | 37,890–60,000 |
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| Sweden | 14,600–36,000 |
| Finland | 9,350 |
| Russia | 1,991 |
| United States | 480 (first ancestry); 945 (first and second) |
| Ukraine | 136 |
| Music groups | Inuit |
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| ID | 2996298 |
About Sámi People
The Sámi people are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula within the Murmansk Oblast of Russia. The Sámi have historically been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders.
Voice referendum: Indigenous rights vote is a reckoning for Australia
... The Sami People - who have inhabited northern Scandinavia for thousands of years - have had their own parliaments in Finland, Norway, and Sweden since the 1980s and 1990s, and their rights are recognised in the constitutions of all three nations...
Who owns the Arctic and should they drill for oil and gas?
... Lasse Eriksen Bjoern, an activist from the indigenous Sami People of northern Norway, told Reuters that Three Norwegian courts rejected their case, but the ECHR is taking it seriously and asked Norway s government to make its defence...
