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The Sami population is populated in a broad belt going over north of Norway, Sweden and Finland, there are also some Sami populated in Russia. The largest part of them live in Norway, there are several different estimates but according to the latest numbers in a Norwegian newspaper it is around 25000 Sami living in Norway (the same week the British newspaper Guardian weekly estimated it to be 50000, the double) anyhow there is a lot of confusion concerning the Sami people also in Norway, for instance its often assumed that all Sami are making a living of reindeer up north in Norway. That is not the case; there are mainly three groups forestsami, seasami and the reindeer (tundrasami) in Norway these are separate groups with own languages (there are 9 different languages existing, in fact these are called dialects in the establishment in Scandinavia but the differences are in fact larger than between Norwegian and Swedish whish are regarded as separate languages), furthermore a !larger part is populated in Oslo the capital, (referred to as the largest Sami colony by themselves, jokingly) The Sami was the first ethnic group populating Norway and can be called the native Norwegians similarly to America's Indians or
s. In many cases their ethnic belonging were deleted. Pulled out of your background alone among only Norwegians, you try to survive; claiming respect for your ethnicity is hardly to be expected. It is also today going on. It's because of still living prejudices and jokes about Sami very though to be young and Sami and many take the easiest way; to become a Norwegian. This is the destiny of the majority of Sami today they are converted. This is a result of a long tradition of suppression of the Sami in Norway. ly wiping out their identity, culture and language did not succeed. During a long and hard struggle, they slowly gained some rights gradually during the seventies and up till today. The Sami language is now taught in schools and there are also possibilities for taking grades at universities in the language, also their cultural heritage is being more respected and the music is considered a part of Norwegian folk music, there is also programs in Sami language in the national broadcasting channel: news, children TV and so on. The Sami claim that the changes are mostly cosmetically, and they might be right, the ILO for instance is not sufficiently being followed. This should give them a larger degree of self-governing and also more concrete property rights. But when it comes to important natural resources, profit interested politicians are hard to move. In 1981 there was a big discussion, the government wanted to build a hydroelectric dam in the middle of Sami areas. This would put grassing fields and traditional campsites under water. The construction was going to
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