The Sami & The Izhorians // Indigenous People Of Northern Europe

[@Mnnvint]

Lots of odd mistakes right away. No, the vikings did not call the Sami Lap, they called them Finns. And it is the word "Finns" (Fenni) which is mentioned in e.g. Roman sources. "The center of Sámi culture is located in the village of Lovozero". Maybe the center of Sami culture in Russia is located there, but most Sami speakers live in Norway. There are about ~30 times as many Sami in Norway as in Russia, and still 2 and 3 times more than there are in Sweden and Finland, so the geographical center of Sami culture probably has to be somewhere around Karasjok, Norway.

[@napoleonfeanor]

We are all indigenous in Europe though (I mean different European groups). I always enjoy documentaries on arctic peoples.

[@merrick6484]

Back in ancient time, all humans belongs to some sort of tribes. 😆 No matter if you are Caucasians, Negros or Mongoloids.

[@indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145]

We are all indigenous to some place.

[@MattSpaggsDP]

I agree brother

[@vegardaukrust5447]

Sami reindeer herders are nomads in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland.

[@henriettanovember4733]

Not very much nomads today, at least I am not a nomad. Greetings from SWedish Sapmi

[@ainaasara2016]

And russia, kola halvøya😅😊

[@yee3771]

Excellent!

[@allisonj7197]

Fascinating

[@northof-62]

LOL That crosssbow needs more work!

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

😊😊😊😊

[@thePyiott]

The Romani are nomads

[@chlorone]

concidering that every european came over the middle east from africa many moons ago as nomads and then decided to finally settle, no one really is indigenous in europe. what makes me kinda smile is how they celebrate their traditional national dresscode. while in my country, doing so would get you labeled as right winged nationalist

[@Canyouhandleth1s]

But no. The sámi people do not share the same DNA as African people. They don't share DNA with Asians either. Even if they sometimes can look more Asian then European. They have their own DNA and genetics which are completely European. This is European Arctic people all through.

[@Etsfx]

really?

[@jordansmith2244]

so much disinformation here. Sami aren't indigenous to Northern Europe nor Europe. These people are clearly mixed as well. There's clear migration patterns for these people AFTER the indigenous proto Europeans. To use the msm narrative, they stole native land and we demand reparations. Try again to undermine European identity by saying we aren't the indigenous peoples.

[@MattSpaggsDP]

This fella underatands... he sees the truth about the samis

[@MattSpaggsDP]

True

[@reprobatic5485]

You seem to misunderstand some things. The Sami ARE indigenous to the northern part of Scandinavia. That area was not widely inhabited by the early peoples of Scandinavia. Those other groups (like the Ahrensburgians, the Maglemosian and the Fosna-Hensbacka culture) were located in the southern parts of Scandinavia. So there weren't really any people in the northern parts of the Scandinavian countries until the peoples who would be called Sami migrated there. It's true that it happened later than some of the other cultures in the southern area, but that doesn't feel relevant to me. The difference between the the Sami peoples and the other older cultures are that the Sami people today have a more cohesive cultural legacy than those other old Scandinavian cultures. Most likely because they lived in isolation from the rest of the world for much longer, due to their geographical distance from the emerging cultural centers of the rest of Europe. Which is why they fit the (admittedly rather vague) description of "indigenous" more than other modern scandinavians. Also, considering how the Sami have been treated in the last few centuries, I think it's in poor taste to attack them in the way you did. It has an unpleasant odour of white nationalism to it.

[@kukifitte7357]

@@reprobatic5485 Mostly to inland areas. Norwegians inhabited the coastal regions a lot more

[@thePyiott]

That's the paternal side of their lineage, the maternal side of their lineage have been in northern Europe longer than the indo europeans

[@pertpesc7058]

Indigenous ?? How ? Norwegians , Swedes and Finnish people where in this countrys thousands of years before the laps. Coming in to this countrys from south. Where the ice disapeard a Long time before in north.

[@thePyiott]

No there were no Norway, Denmark and Sweden until a thousand years ago. Sami ancestor on the maternal side have been in northern Europe since before the Indo Europeans arrived

[@merrick6484]

Compare Sami with Evens/Evenks tribes in Siberia, we can find the connection, even to tribes in Sakhalin,

[@merrick6484]

The respect to spirits of river, soil, trees and the entire nature is the same, from Sami to tribes in Sakhalin islands.