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They are also indigenous to Lapland
They're literally indigenous people
What would you call them? They were there first before Finns, Scandinavians and Russians showed up to boss them around and had their language, religion and traditional ways of life suppressed for a long time
...i used to work with a sámi; he called himself a black norweigian...
(most folks just assumed he was ethnically mexican)
Mfw they were literally sterilised by the state but because they have pale skin they are not 'indigenous'
Sami look "white" i wonder what could explain that huh?
Sweden spent a lot of time and money to prove that this wasn't the case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Institute_for_Racial_Biology
Supposedly one of the first in the world actually, which one of my swedish coworkers likes pointing out when Sweden makes the news for being "too politically correct".