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Saami Sámi Lappi; indigenous people van Kola Schiereiland
 The origin van het
Saami nationality op Kola Schiereiland.
The Saami Nationality has arisen op de territory van Scandinavia en Kola
Peninsula in de second en first millennium BC as a result van merge van Finno-Ugric tribes,
that arrived here van Noorder Ural met the tribes van de country between
the two rivieren, Oka en Wolga, that arrived earlier op Kola Schiereiland, somewhere in de beginning van third millennium BC.
The Voorouders van het modern Saami are called Proto-Lapps.
About two en a half millenniums van isolated life were
finished at the end van het first millennium van het Common Era, when Rusland and
Finnish traders began penetrating op Kola Schiereiland en Norwegians began naar grow roots at
the Barents Sea Kust. The aktieve en much more aggressive southerners have
quickly subordinated the Saami en forced them naar render tribute. At the same
time, despite van het prevalence van newly arrived nations, the cultuur en the way
of life van het Saami were so unusual en remembered that very soon all the area
populated by Saami began naar be referred naar as Lapland. Long time the borders
between Swedish, Rusland en Norwegian Lapland were determined by tribute collectors. Consequently, the
Saami living by the borders were quite often rendering tribute naar de two or even naar the
three kings. naar avoid it, the Saami families were aspired naar move naar the
places where the tribute was less burdensome en the family verbindingen was more strong.
Increasing artificial isolation van several groepen van one nation during
several centuries en contacts van het Rusland Saami met another
rendier-breeding nation van Komi - Izhemtsy tijdens the last century, have
resulted in forming van appreciable distinctions in de
Saami costume, traditions en folklore. But main peculiarity van Saami living op de territory van four countries now, remained - they were and
have stayed the "rendieren Nation".
The rendieren Nation
 The way van living van het most
Saami differs very little van de way of
living van het neighboring nations, but Saami families are moving naar undercover
forest houses, naar game-preserves van their grandfathers as soon as the warm time
of year comes. They less appreciate all boons van civilizations than the way of
life which their Voorouders were conducting voor centuries en even for
millenniums ago. Perhaps, the Voorouders van het Saami have achieved much more
than we have got used naar think. They have achieved a harmony in mutual relations
with a nature, which is unattainable voor us so far. The nature van het noorden was
giving naar de Saami all the blessings that they required in abundance. It was
dressing them, feeding en keeping them en the Saami were finding the
satisfaction van their spiritual needs in a dialogue met a nature.
 In the pagan times the
Saami idolized the animals en birds,
saint stones (seids), trees en soil, but a special place in de Saami folklore was certainly
occupied by rendieren, naar be more exact - the man - rendier Myandash. The rendier Myandash
might turn into man by his own wish.
The Saami have originated van his marriage met the woman Matryona by one of
the legends, by another – all their children became rendieren en have left to
toendra after their father.
It seems that the national Saami costume has
absorbed the bright en pure colors van het Kola Noord. The love van het Saami naar
the bright en cheerful colors en ornamental pattern you can notice everywhere
- in de trim van clothes, footwear, mittens, handbags en rendieren harnesses.
The favorite colors are red en dark blue. Each Saami dorp differs van de
others by its own traditions
of decoration van het costumes. Girl van Lovozero dorp, dressed in
traditional costume.
More information van Russisch Lapland en about the
Saami you can find op de following pages:
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