🦌 c. 1880 | The Sámi People | Sápmi (the Sámi homeland) What you’re seeing:
 A Sámi herder guiding a reindeer herd across winter tundra during seasonal movement between grazing areas. What is Sápmi vs. Lapland? Sápmi is the Sámi people’s own name for their traditional homeland across parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Lapland is a widely used English geographic name for the far-northern region across those same countries, and it often overlaps with Sápmi, but it is not always used with the same cultural meaning as “Sápmi.” Who are the Sámi people? The Sámi are the Indigenous people of Sápmi (their traditional homeland across northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia’s Kola Peninsula), with distinct languages and cultural traditions across northern Fennoscandia (the northern European region including Norway, Sweden, Finland, and parts of northwest Russia)and northwestern Russia. What are their origins? Sámi origins are complex and debated in scholarship, but research ...