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Happy Sami Day Posted by Bjørn A. Bojesen on Feb 6, 2013

Gratulerer med dagen! (Congratulations [with the day]!) Today is samefolkets dag – the day of the Sami people. Did you know Norway had an indigenous minority? ”We feel like Native Americans,” two Sami girls told a Norwegian reporter. Like many Native Americans, samene (the Sami) are fully integrated in the mainstream society. They go i barnehage (to kindergarten), på skole (to school) and work…

Samí Religion Posted by kari on Oct 13, 2010

I don´t recall ever learning about Samí Shamanism in any of my Norwegian classes at St. Olaf and it is certainly not a topic of conversation with non-Samí Norwegians. In fact, in my classes in college we learned very little about the Samí people in general. Furthermore, I have observed from personal experience that many…