Saami vs. Norse notes

The Saami tribes have suffered terribly at the hands of the Norse Scandinavians and Finns for centuries because they have no "superior" claim to the land. For the most part, they've been forced off their territory, or Sápmi. If anything, they've been marginalized and forced to adapt to Norse and Finnish culture(s) to the point of losing their own cultural identity.

It's not a question of who arrived first in Scandinavia as it's "pretty slippery" to peg the arrival of the ethnic Saami, aka Sami, Suomi, Lappi (FWIW, Lappi a pejorative Norse term), as they didn't have a written (historic) culture, and were marginalized early on by the Norse Scandinavians. However, they do predate the Scandinavian period. Period.

Like the Euskaldunak (Basque), the Caucasians—the Vainakh/Kavkas and Ossetians (Georgian; also the kingdom of Pern—now that's an isolate group!), the Kvens (Sami-Finns, different than Finnish Finns), even the Samoyeds (sounds like Sami, doesn't it?—but they split off the linguistic family tree very early, like the Ainu—Altaic/Uralic); however, they are/were Uralic speakers, not Indo-European. (Uralic = Urals; generally includes many Siberian cultures.)

The western Uralic branch, Finno-Urgic (toss in the Magyarok—the Hungarians) are different peoples—in many cases, they carry different genetic markers—literally—predominance of RH - factor. And revisionist thinking claiming that it's merely an "ethno-linguistic distinction" is not going to change that bloody fact.

An interesting aside, during the Plague/Black Death, many Norse died, the Sea Saami peoples did not—though they were living side by side.

Note Bene: These are my notes directed at someone on Facebook. Don't remember who, but clearly I bristled at his sweeping statements of grandeur among the Norse. (Notice that I do remember it was a man.)

A lot of times I don't repost these regurgitant bitty-bits because I've lost interest, or don't have an angle by which to frame them (usually due to a virulent attack of dyslexia), or the time/interest/inclination to recheck my facts—as I often use Wiki as it's so damned handy, and © free. 

But Wiki articles, though they are improving, all the time— do require cross-checking with several sources before I'm satisfied. And I like to add back links—which these notes generally lack, as I'm often so hot on the trail of an idea, I leap from webpage to webpage, then can't find the original pages. Not very scholarly of me. So this is very retroactive. If I wait for the perfectly written post to emerge, then I'd have nothing to show for. So I hide them in a folder called info4blogs. TBS at a later date.

But then, when I want to look up my random notes, I can't find them on my computer or hard drive. So I'm attempting to post some of these bits in my blog—on the original date I wrote them, whenever possible. So, these warty fragments may appear in later blogs. Perhaps they'll expand and grow into longer pieces later. It happens.