Lapponia is a book written by Johannes Schefferus ( 1621-1679 ) covering a very comprehensive history of Northern Scandinavia topology, environment and Sami living condition, dwelling-places, clothing, gender roles, hunting, child raising, shamanism and pagan religion.

Sami religion is the ethnic traditional and shamanic religion of the Sami people.

Though the Sami were mostly forcefully Christianised from the 16th and the 17th century thereafter, there are Sami people who have wished to return to their native religion, and a revival has occurred in recent times similar to Neoshamanesque or Neopaganesque movements.

In 2012 the county of Troms, in Norway, officially recognised the Sami religion through the Shamanic Association of Tromsø, part of a wider Shamanic Federation.

The traditional Sami religion is kindred to the religions of other Uralic ethnicities, such as the Finnish religion, and has many influences of Germanic Heathenism, such as the worship of god Thor as Horagalles or Thoragalles.

A revival of traditional Sami religion has also taken root.

A noaidi (,,,,, ) is a shaman of the Sami people in the Nordic countries representing an indigenous nature religion.

In the 2009 film Agora, Cyril is played by Sami Samir as an extremist that opposes Orestes's attempts to harmonize the different communities of Alexandria.

Some Druze and non-Druze scholars like Samy Swayd and Sami Makarem state that this confusion is due to confusion about the role of the early preacher ad-Darazi, whose teachings the Druze rejected as heretical.

A kantele ( pronounced in Finnish or harppu in Sami ) is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family native to Finland and Karelia.

The extreme north of Norway, Sweden and Finland, as well as the most North-Western part of Russia, is home to the region's original inhabitants, the today's minority of Sami, who originally inhabited a much larger area, before the expansion of the Scandinavians northward.

The northern and central part of the peninsula is partially inhabited by the Sami, often referred to as " Lapps " or " Laplanders ".

They speak the Sami language, a non-Indo-European language of the Uralic family which is related to Finnish and Estonian.

Their best-known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding, with which about 10 % of the Sami are connected and 2, 800 actively involved on a full-time basis.

For traditional, environmental, cultural and political reasons, reindeer herding is legally reserved only for Sami people in certain regions of the Nordic countries.

The noun Lapp is an indication that the Sami people and Nordic history are related to a larger ancient history of Europe.

A cultural continuity between these stone-age people and the Sami can be assumed due to evidence such as the similarities in the decoration patterns of archeological bone objects and Sami decoration patterns, and there is no archeological evidence of this population being replaced by another.

Also, another very important topic which somewhat strains ties between Islamabad and Khartoum is the December 2001 transferral of Al-Jazeera photographer Sami al-Hajj at the hands of the Pakistani government to Guantanamo Bay.

The first mention of a Uralic people is in Tacitus's Germania, mentioning the Fenni ( usually interpreted as referring to the Sami ) and two other possibly Uralic tribes living in the farthest reaches of Scandinavia.

* Sami swoi, 1967-a Polish comedy on post-war peasant life, in which an UNRRA-delivered horse is an important action point.

In the Kildin Sami language there is also this < ҋ >.

Languages that contrast three quantities in diphthongs are extremely rare, but not unheard of ; Northern Sami is known to contrast long, short and " finally stressed " diphthongs, the last of which are distinguished by a long second element.

The idea of incentive conservation is a modern one but its practice has clearly defended some of the sub Arctic wildernesses and the wildlife in those regions for thousands of years, especially by indigenous peoples such as the Evenk, Yakut, Sami, Inuit and Cree.

Sami Hyypiä, a football player for the Finnish national team is the main sports pride of Porvoo.

The name is continued in Irish as Tuireann, and is likely connected with those of Germanic ( Norse Thor, Anglo-Saxon Þunor, German Donar ) and Sami ( Horagalles ) gods of thunder.

The " Sami ethnical group " is " den samiske Folkegruppe ", even though the word Sami ( samisk ) was not common until the 1970s.

* 1533-The Pechenga Monastery is founded in the Extreme North of Russia to preach Gospel to the Sami people ; Augustinian order arrives in Mexico ; First Christian missionaries arrive in Tonkin, what is now Vietnam

The culture of Norrbotten County is in many ways different from the rest of Sweden, since so many different cultures can be found there ; the Sami culture, the Finnish culture ( Tornedalians ) and the Swedish settler-culture ( combined with the climate, midnight sun, and mid winter darkness ).

Preaspirated stops also occur in some Sami languages ; for example, in Sami, the unvoiced stop phonemes,,, are pronounced preaspirated (, ) when they occur in medial or final position.

Morsi also retired Sami Anan, the Army ’ s Chief of Staff.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

The Sami people, also spelled Sámi or Saami, are the indigenous people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway.

Archeological research shows that the Sami have lived along the coast and once lived much further south in the past, and they were also involved in work other than just reindeer herding ( e. g., fishing, agriculture, iron work ).

In contemporary times, there are also ongoing consultations between the Government of Norway and the Sami Parliament regarding the right of the coastal Sami to fish in the seas on the basis of historical use and international law.

In 1671, Swedish scholar Georg Stiernhielm commented on the similarities of Sami, Estonian and Finnish, and also on a few similar words between Finnish and Hungarian, while the German scholar Martin Vogel tried to establish a relationship between Finnish, Sami, and Hungarian.

The people of medieval Scandinavia are also referred to as Norse, although this term properly applies only to the Old-Norse-speaking peoples of Scandinavia, and not to the Sami.

Like the Sami people of Finland and Scandinavia, the Tungusic peoples, Mongolians, and Turkic peoples of Southern Siberia, Northern Mongolia, and the Ussuri Region have also taken to raising semi-domesticated herds of Asian Caribou.

" They also want to abolish the Sami parliament which claims special privileges for an " ethnic minority while the society claims equal rights for others.

It was also mentioned that native Sami people were living in the proximity.

Some people are also, due to the proximity to the Finnish border, proficient in Finnish, and a few speak Sami.

Malå Municipality is also one of the southernmost outposts of the native Sami people settlements.

Sami also features dual pronouns, expressing the concept of " we two here " as contrasted to " we ".

A high degree of fusion is also found in many Sami languages, such as Skolt Sami.

The Sami also have their own words for skis and skiing.

Today, also the Sami culture is celebrated with many yoik concerts, Sami theater shows, reindeer races, snowmobile races, ice fishing competitions, parties, and the Sámi Melody Grand Prix ; a Sámi version of the Eurovision Song Contest where in addition to the best song, the best yoik is also selected.