Sami people in the late 1800 Sweden Norway. Pay attention to the boots. Samiske folk i Norge eller Sverige. Legg merke til støvlene, samiske komager dvs. biekso

A Sami man and child in Finnmark, Norway, circa 1900





A Sami family in Norway around 1900





Sami people, in Norway, 1928





Nordic Sami people, Lavvu circa.1900



Sami Children and puppies in Jämtland Sweden



Sami camp Finnmark early 1900's



Northern Sweden Nomad Sami people about 1880



Sami woman and child Enare Finland



Nomad Sami Finland 1920s



Nomad Saami Children late 1800eds Sweden





Saami Girl from Finnmark Norway, Photo 1930's



Swedish Sami mother and children from Jämtland early 1900





Sami woman from Sweden, 1870 - 1898

The Sami people (also Sámi or Saami), traditionally known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway.The Sami are the only indigenous people of Scandinavia recognized and protected under the international conventions of indigenous peoples, and are hence the northernmost indigenous people of Europe. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages and are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family.Their best-known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding. Currently about 10% of the Sami are connected to reindeer herding, providing them with meat, fur, and transportation. 2,800 Sami people are actively involved in herding 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.Since prehistoric times, the Sami people of Arctic Europe have lived and worked in an area that stretches over the northern parts of the regions now known as Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Russian Kola Peninsula. They have inhabited the northern arctic and sub-arctic regions of Fenno-Scandinavia and Russia for at least 5,000 years. The Sami are counted among the Arctic peoples and are members of circumpolar groups such as the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples' Secretariat.