The Sami people, the natives of the North

The Sami people (also known as Lap, Lapp, or Laplanders) are the Nordic countries' only official indigenous people, inhabiting the North of Scandinavia, Sápmi. Non-Sami and many regional maps have often called this same region Lapland, but this term can be either misleading, offensive, or both. Among the Sami people, Sápmi is strictly used and accepted. Sápmi is located in Northern Europe,...

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