The sámi are europe’s oldest indigenous people, carrying a living culture shaped by snow, migration, storytelling, and an intimate relationship with nature. Traditional sami occupations are hunting, fishing, farming, and reindeer herding, though only a minority of today's sami make a living from these activities alone, and virtually none live in a natural economy nor have a nomadic lifestyle. Sami makaroun, md medical director, center for advanced fetal diagnostics assistant professor, department of obstetrics, gynecology & reproductive sciences Sweden's indigenous people, the sámi, have their own cultural heritage, language, flag and parliament The indigenous sami in the far north of sweden say intensive industrial projects pose risks to their way of life. The sami have for centuries, even today, been the subject of discrimination and abuse by the dominant cultures claiming possession of their lands
They have never been a single community in a single region of lapland, which until recently was considered only a cultural region.
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