Today it will be about the samis, the native of sweden. Today about 20-30 000 samis live in Sweden. Out of this it is just 2000 working full time with reindeers. Before Sweden become christian, the Samis got there own religion. They felt that the sun, the moon and the thunder and the wind was devine. Everything in the nature was having a soul, so you have to be kind to the nature. They also was having a shaman the nojd who was a doctor and a seer.

The shaman got a drum, that was important in the sami Culture. On the drum the reindeer pasture was a given Picture..

During the 1600 the Samis was forced to become cristians, and there Culture was banned.

As late as 1993 the Sami parliament was groundet from the Swedish goverment. from here the Samsi could make proposals to Sweden’s Parliament. he Sami Parliament decides on its own culture, language and its schools. The common people decide on their own sami nation by voting every four years. The Sami Parliament is dependent on the state because it has no own tax base.

The Sami situation in Sweden has improved in recent years. In the past, the Sami were oppressed by the Swedes, but it has improved in recent years. Among other things, the Swedish state apologized in 1998 for the oppression Sweden exercised against the Sami in the past. It still will be conflicts between the local Swedish people and Samis due to diffrent interests and view ofthe ownership of land and the rights. Ithink we should be proud over the Samis in our land,and support them as much as we can. As usual read about them and you will understand more..

See ya tommorrow, and the Winner of the quiz this week was Anders E congrat!