* 2006 – Sami Hammad, a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv, killing 11 people and injuring 70.

:" Adalvard the Elder ( Adalwardus senior ) was to superintend both lands of the Geats ( uterque praefectus est Gothiae ), Adalvard the Younger Sigtuna ( Sictunam ) and Uppsala ( Ubsalam ), Simeon ( Symon ) the Sami people ( Scritefingos ), John ( Iohannes ) the islands of the Baltic Sea.

The earliest inhabitants of most of the land area that makes up today's Finland and Scandinavia were in all likehood hunter-gatherers whose closest successors in modern terms would probably be the Sami people ( formerly known as the Lapps ).

At that point, only one Greenlander was still a deerherd ; the rest about 20 people were still hired Norwegian Sami.

Starting about that time, people migrated to the area of Finland from the Kunda and-possibly-Swiderian cultures, and they are believed to be ancestors of today's Finnish and Sami people in Finland.

* 1956 – Mari Boine, Norwegian musician who added jazz & rock to the yoiks of the Sami people

In addition to the ethnic Swedish majority, Sweden has historically had smaller minorities of Sami people in the northernmost parts of the country while Finns ( at 5 % of the total population ) are most prominent in the Mälardalen and in the north of Sweden.

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.

Since prehistoric times, long before the concept of national borders existed, the Sami people of Arctic Europe lived and worked in an area that stretches over the regions now known as Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola Peninsula.

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.

Proponents of the Sami interpretations of these finds assume a mixed population of Norse and Sami people in the mountainous areas of Southern Norway in the Middle Ages.

According to old Nordic texts, the Sea Sami and the Mountain Sami are two classes of the same people and not two different ethnic groups as had been erroneously believed.

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.

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.

Sven-Roald Nystø, Aili Keskitalo and Ole Henrik Magga, the three first presidents of the Norway | Norwegian Sami people | Sami Sami Parliament of Norway | Parliament.

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 ).

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.

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

" 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.

A joik, ( also spelled yoik ), luohti, vuolle, leu ' dd, or juoiggus is a traditional Sami form of song.

Kildin Sami ( also spelled Sámi or Saami ; formerly Lappish ) is a Sami language spoken by approximately 600 people on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.

The Sámi are often known in other languages by the exonyms Lap, Lapp, or Laplanders, but many Sami regard these as pejorative terms.

The Sámi name of the island, Romsa, is assumed to be a loan from Norse-but according to the phonetical rules of the Sami language the frontal t has disappeared from the name.

* Sámi giellaossodat ; The department of language at the Norwegian Sami Parliament.

Guovdageaidnu-Kautokeino is perhaps the cultural center of Northern Sámi today, and hosts several of the most well known Sami cultural events.

The Sámi name of the island, Romsa, is assumed to be a loan from Norse-but according to the phonetical rules of the Sami language the frontal t has disappeared from the name.

* Sami, the producer of Sámi programmes situated in Karasjok

File: Sami family-easter. jpg | Sámi people celebrating Easter

Their music incorporated Sámi elements such as yoik singing, Sami lyrics, and shamanic drum.

Inari Sámi ( anarâškielâ ) is a Uralic, Sami language spoken by the Inari Sami of Finland.

Morottaja has also published the first full-length Inari Sámi rap CD in the world on February 6, 2007 ( Sami National Day ).

Along with Finnish, Skolt Sami and Northern Sami, Inari Sámi is one of the four official languages in the municipality of Inari, in particular in the following villages located on the shore of Lake Inari ( the Inari Sámi name for the village is enclosed in parentheses ):

Image: Sámi mythology shaman drum Samisk mytologi schamantrumma 186. png | The Sami drum or Noaidi drum with Svetovid solar symbol.

Sámi shamanic Sami drum | drum in the Arktikum Science Museum | Arctikum museum, in Rovaniemi, Finland.

The Sami flag is the flag of the Sámi people, the indigenous nation of the Nordic countries and the Kola Peninsula of the Russian Federation.