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suviko · 12-08-2003, 04:03 AM

I am from Finland, so I am sure about this. Lappi aka Lapland is a northern part of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. The natives of lapland (saamelaiset aka sami people) traditionally lived by herding reindeer for meat and milk so they have to move around and live in one spot at winter and one place at summer time cos of the animals so they the wandering people didn't respect official borders of nations. They speak their own language (The language is called "saame" in Finnish, dunno what's that in English, sami probably), actually 9 so distict dialects that they are counted as separate languages and have a flag, they are proud of their ethnicity but are not a politically fueled group to get independent state or anything. They are disappearing, people are blending to the main culture and moving to cities and give up the traditional lifestyle.

BTW: While the people in The States think Santa lives at North Pole (and there are other traditions of his whereabouts around the World), Santa Claus is believed to live in a mountain at the Finnish region of Lapland. Lapland is where the cloudberries come from and Finland's Lapland is full of ski resorts.

http://www.scandinavica.com/sami.htm

12-08-2003, 04:03 AM	#9 (permalink)
suviko Banned	I am from Finland, so I am sure about this. Lappi aka Lapland is a northern part of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. The natives of lapland (saamelaiset aka sami people) traditionally lived by herding reindeer for meat and milk so they have to move around and live in one spot at winter and one place at summer time cos of the animals so they the wandering people didn't respect official borders of nations. They speak their own language (The language is called "saame" in Finnish, dunno what's that in English, sami probably), actually 9 so distict dialects that they are counted as separate languages and have a flag, they are proud of their ethnicity but are not a politically fueled group to get independent state or anything. They are disappearing, people are blending to the main culture and moving to cities and give up the traditional lifestyle. BTW: While the people in The States think Santa lives at North Pole (and there are other traditions of his whereabouts around the World), Santa Claus is believed to live in a mountain at the Finnish region of Lapland. Lapland is where the cloudberries come from and Finland's Lapland is full of ski resorts. http://www.scandinavica.com/sami.htm Last edited by suviko; 12-08-2003 at 04:13 AM..