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ISBN-10: 1157645127
ISBN-13: 9781157645122
Edition: N/A
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Sami people, Chukchi people, Koryaks, Eskimo, Nenets people, Inuit, Inuit culture, Gwich'in, Sadlermiut, Dene, Gwichyaa Gwich'in, Inupiat people, T ch people, Skolts, Aboriginal peoples in Northern Canada, Dislocation of Sami people, Kalaallit, Aivilingmiut. Excerpt: The Sami people, also spelled Sami, or Saami, are the arctic indigenous people inhabiting Sapmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sami are… Europe's northernmost and the Nordic countries' only officially indigenous people. Sami ancestral lands span an area of approximately 388,350 km (150,000 sq. mi), which is approximately the size of Sweden in the Nordic countries. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages and are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family. The Sami languages are endangered. Traditionally, the Sami have pursued a variety of livelihoods, including coastal fishing, fur trapping and sheep herding. Their best known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding, with which about 10% of the Sami are connected and 2800 actively involved on a full-time basis. For traditional, environmental, cultural and political reasons, reindeer herding is legally reserved only for Sami people in certain regions of the Nordic countries. The Sami are often known in other languages by the exonyms "Lap," "Lapp," or "Laplanders," but many Sami regard these as pejorative terms. Variants of the name Lapp were originally used in Sweden and Finland, and through Swedish adopted by all major European languages: English: , German, Dutch: , Russian: (lopari), Ukrainian: , French: , Greek: (Lapones), Italian: , Polish: , Spanish: , Portuguese: , Turkish: . The word "Lapp" is defined in the Lexicon Lapponicum ...