The Sami have long lived in the northern parts of Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula. A question of

The Sami have long lived in the northern parts of Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula. A question often asked is: where does the Sami? The answer that can be given today is that of Sami are among the hunting and trapping people in prehistoric times lived in the Arctic.
Today the Sami live in four countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. The Sami people are an ethnic minority and indigenous peoples in these countries. The Sami core area, today known as Sápmi, ranging from Dalarna in Dalarna in the south to the Kola Peninsula in Russia to the east.
Sami estimated to number from 50,000 to 75,000, of which 15,000 to 20,000 in Sweden, 30,000 to 50,000 aerospace design in Norway, 4000-5000 in Finland and about 2000 in Russia. In recent decades, the exodus from the Sami core area has been extensive, resulting in the fact that today is home to about 20% outside the Sami area. Sweden's northern part of the country has always been a land far away, where settlements are the exception rather than the rule. Covered with forests and intersected by clear cold rivers is not much that disturbs aerospace design the quiet serenity of this country nearly a thousand kilometers from Stockholm - except during the first weekend in February that is. Tens of thousands of people aerospace design from across this vast region then invades the small village Jokmokk, just above the Arctic Circle, the annual winter market - known as the world's "coolest market" with temperatures ranging downward 35 degrees below zero. Trade booths hive of activity over three days of intense trade, where all sorts of skins, furs and other goods are sold, a tradition that spans over four hundred years. While fur is perhaps unfashionable in the rest of the world, this is not a matter of fashion - it's a necessity against the biting aerospace design cold, and the hunt is practically innate right. During aerospace design the market offers traditional Sami tent, or lávvu, cold and weary shoppers a cup of coffee and a wood fire to warm their numb hands over. For those seeking more solid foods, there are reindeer, and even bear meat on the menus of local eateries. This annual event is more than just a market. Jokkmokk is the cultural capital of the Swedish Sami - the only remaining original inhabitants of Europe - and the market is an opportunity to showcase their culture, as the costume aerospace design the vibrant colors and reindeer skin boots make it easy to distinguish the locals from the tourists. Among the attractions you can choose to go dog sledding across the frozen lake behind the village, listen to traditional Sami singing jojk of promising young artists and even exchange a few words with to representatives of the Sami Parliament. It's really easy to forget that you are in Sweden before you notice that the same nationwide liquor and ICA Supermarket has penetrated even these remote places - for Christmas shopping, however, fired the easiest aerospace design to get around with. Sami resurgent pride in their identity and heritage led by youth who are rediscovering and reinterpreting their culture through music, theater and crafts. A Sami University College is located aerospace design in the middle of the village where you can learn traditional Sami handicrafts - duodju - and studying the Sami language, which bears some similarities to Finnish. For many of the university's students - both old and new - the market is what they've been waiting all year; an opportunity to showcase their intricate craftsmanship and design art. Delicious but expensive, with glass cabinets showing their latest work as it would be a Gucci watch. Renkapplöpningen is one of the main items on the market's closing day, and the snorting animals running around a track at breakneck speeds with a sled and driver behind. Participants compete for the fastest time at the risk of being thrown aerospace design off into the safety nets. After three days of frenetic aerospace design activity fitted the sheds down and the natural silence sweeps back into the streets. "We enjoy the market every year," said a local resident, "but we also enjoy the tranquility once it is over." Most Sami reindeer herders are no longer as their ancestors, but the Sami identity has retained its unique features as it has adapted to the future. For the Sami and their culture seems therefore the future look bright, unlike many other of the world aborigines.
Since 1993 ... celebrating the Sami in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, its national day on 6 February. The date has a historical significance. On February 6, 1917, the first Sami congress in Trondheim. It was the first time in the Sami history as North and South Sami from Norway and Sweden gathered at a border meeting to discuss and highlight common issues.
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