SAMI PEOPLE

The Sami people has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the EUROPEAN PEOPLE category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

The international name for the Sami people comes from the finnish sama, probably referring to the ancient originary homeland of the Uralic and Ugro-Finn peoples. The other term tipically used for the Sami people is "Lappons" that can be traced in the swedish and finnish words standing for the "wilderness in the North", while there no evidence in the Vikings tradition, became internationally common. Nowadays the Sami people is settled in the Arctic area entirely living in the states of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.

The Sami have always been living in the north Scandinavian Escude as part of the Paleoarctic peoples standing in the Kola peninsula and in Groenland area and relatives to the Ugric and Uralic peoples coming from the Siberian area. They are considered among the developers of the Corded Ware culture during the Neolithic aga after then moved along the river routes of the Ladoga and Ilmen lakes region up to the Karelia and Kola regions and the finnish lakes area in the late Bronze Age. Probably they were following the reindeers to hunt as narrowed by the ancient nordic tradition in Sami language and kept definitely the distance from the other european peoples met along the history of European integration, appearently until XIX century AD when Sami were submitted by the northern Germans tribes. Part of Sami population today work as fishermen in the Norwegian Sea or as oil exploration and mining personnel in particular in Norway.

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