Sami (Lapps)

Sami - refer to their land as Sapmi / Same ,or Lapps - refer to a patch of cloth for mending and was a name imposed then by people who settled on their land)

they dont have their own country , so thought of inhabitants of Lapland.their original inhabitants was in northern Scandinania, most at finland. They live in the location of tundra a place with subarctic treeless plain, taiga which is a subarctic forest. The coastal zones in far north of Europe, norway, sweden, finland and russia's kola peninsula. They live in a community of families called siida, which they cooperated in hunting, trapping and fishing. Their spoken language which is Finno-ugric which related to Finnish, Estonian, livoranian, votic and several other little known languages. they wear traditional clothing in group's brightly colored, bright red and yellow, which will be decoration on men's tunics and women skirts and hats of both sexes. they have different region of hats which is cone shaped and four comers.  in their daily life, the coastal fishing, sheep herding and trapping. but they are best in reindeer herders most at mountain sami of north norway. they use traditional tepee style tents called "lavvu". Reindeer meat and fish were the traditional staple food for sami. they also use reindeer milk made cheese as their food. Reindeer also their main form of transport but with different style of sled. they pack animal with bags slug on either side and also carried babies in special cradles. they made wooden boats for transport on river, lakes and on coast. they have animal's beliefs, they believe that everything in this world have own spirit. Leading to successful it need to be cooperating and living in harmony with natural forces, this what they believe in their religion. Noadi used shaman's drum travel in or out spirit world. but as the many century past some of the sami had convert to Christianity.

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