The Sami are not an indigenous people
Anyone care to explain that part about the Sami?
Yeah, that’s really :sus-soviet:, cause they totally are. They came to inhabit most of the Scandinavian peninsula first and were later oppressed through campaigns to erase their culture and religion, the latter of which was successful. They are recognized as indigenous by the national governments that control the lands of Sapmi and have been granted certain rights to control their lands. There’s even several groups of Sami with differences in language and customs.
Its a bit incorrect to say they inhabited Scandinavia before. Scandinavia is pretty big, first off, and early Germanic settlers were in the South and the Sami were in the North. Its likely that it was concurrent and with no immediate conflict. But of course, as there was expansion north from the Germanic settlers some bad shit happened, especially during the 1800s and 1900s
They went past Trondheim and had old settlements in southern Norway, and lived in the Jämtland, that’s not just the North, that’s close to Central Scandinavia, so nearly half the peninsula.
Also lmao at “some bad shit happened”. Yeah, the fucking missionaries, boarding schools, witch hunts, massacres, colonialism, habitat destruction and indebtment herd slaughtering is pretty bad, but I guess it could have been worse too!
Is this a leaked DLC boss for Elden Ring?
