References

This was the only source I used, it had everything I needed.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people

Religion Of Sami People

The Sami people believe in Shamanism. Shamanism is thought that one can reach an ultimate level of consciousness in a sense. A high level of spirit connection. A shaman is a person is regarded to having access to the spirit world.
There are three important aspects of shamanism, animism, shamanism and polytheism. Animism is the belief that anything significant in value had or has a soul. Polytheistic people believe that there are multiple spirits that are coming into contact with at the same time.

Clothing of Sami People

Gakti, the universal Sami clothing in a sense, is Virtually used for everything even herding reindeer. Traditionally it was made from reindeer, but as the years went on they discovered that wool cotton or silk was stronger, more comfortable, and better material all together so they stuck with that. Its basically a big dress, men and women wear it alike and they wear boots made out of reindeer.  The patterns and colors that go on the dress indicate where the person came from, if they aremarried,  or sometimes what family they come from. The edges such as the sleeves and collars and such have appliqués in the form of geometric shapes.

Reindeer Husbandry of Sami People

Reindeer is one of the biggest aspects of life in the Sami culture. Its what gives them life, its what they eat. around the time of force assimilation, the places where the reindeer survived is where the few Sami people survived. In Norway and Sweden, Reindeer husbandry is protected by the law, one must be of Sami descent and some how associated with them to be able to hunt and make any sort of profit from selling them. If not then by law you can be arrested for essentially stealing.

Music Of Sami People

Sami people sing what they call yoik/joik. They are more like chants instead of songs and is sung a Capella(no instruments or noticeable pattern it is sung to). They sing super slow and try and muster up the music from the depths of their throats making  it as deep as possible. these a Capella songs can be dedicated to anything and anyone there is no set reason or tradition as to why they do this. Whatever they feel like dedicating the song to is what they do. They have strayed away, a bit, sometimes being accompanied by the  Sami instrument the "fadno" which is like a flute and also hand percussion.

Neighbors of the Sami People

The neighboring countries of the Sami people really is just Europe. Norway, Sweden, and Finland are part of a peninsula so there is not much conflict with the sami people.

Birds of the Sami People

Not much is known, from my research, to show that the Sami people have a huge connection with birds and if there is one main one that they really go to for any religious purpose, but in fact they use birds in compassion to humans to somehow match them up with a partner. in their art as well birds seem to be a common link in Sami art 

Cosmos of the Sami People

The Sami peoples cosmos was made up of three different levels, upper, middle and lower. The upper world translates to the south of them where it is warmer and vegetation and such are able to grow in a moderate amount, it represents life. When they visualized the south and with its warmth and feel of life they associated it with the color white. It was where the sun and earth god Mattaraahkka lived, any and all of their gods were always women never men. The middle world was considered the world where all humans needed to exist and was the average place of living, often associated with the color red. All the creatures that dived into the water lived in the underworld which is the north, cold and dark, they associated this with the color black.

Homeland of Sami People

Finland is a Nordic country inside northern Europe. Finland was settled at in 8500 BCE around the stone age which is to be considered very late for a region of the world to be inhabited.

Throughout the Sami peoples existance they've inhabited a lot of different places some of these places being: Sweden, Finland (already mentioned) and the kola peninsula of russia.

To help you better understand these places that the sami people chose to reside I will explain in better detail about the places. Sweden is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe. Sweden borders Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark. 

Kola peninsula is on the northwest side of russia. There is a similar peninsula the north side of kola peninsula, and it had alreadt been in settled on in 7th-5th millennium BCE.

Intro/History of Sami people

My name is Chris Adams, I am a student blogger at ESU (East Stroudsburg University). Through these blogs i will help you have a better understanding of the Sami people. i will go into their history, cosmos Diaspora Cultural survival and much more. i hope that you learn a lot from this and it opens your mind to another world.

Since prehistoric times, the Sami people of arctic Europe have inhabited an area that stretches over the regions Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. they settled down in northern arctic and subarctic regions of Fenno Scandinavia for at least 5000 years. they had 11 languages but the number has dropped, they speak the language depending on the region in which they live for example Swedish if they live in Sweden. This culture or group of people is one of the oldest to be found in northern Norway. Putting into consideration where they live there is little or no vegetation there so they resided to the hunting and gathering lifestyle. Their style of fishing, hunting and trade was preserved till the middle ages, but they branched of once they saw the modern style of the Nordic countries, some of these styles being: Finnish, Norwegian nynorsk and many more. They have made major changes to their lifestyle in the past 200 years, incorporating politics and economics into their way of life.