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List Of Sami People
{{TOC right This is a list of Sami people who are Sami or who are of established Sami descent. A * Nina Afanasyeva (born 1939), Russian-Sami politician and language activist * Aikia Aikianpoika (1591–1671), Finnish shaman *Matti Aikio (1872–1929) early Norwegian Sami writer *Pekka Aikio (born 1944), Finnish Sami politician, president of the Sami Parliament of Finland *Amoc (born 1984), Finnish rapper *Agneta Andersson (born 1958), Swedish Sami sculptor and educator *Karen Anette Anti (born 1972), Norwegian Sami politician * Aleksandra Andreevna Antonova (1932–2014), Russian, Kildin Sami teacher, writer, poet, translator * Linda Aslaksen (born 1986), Norwegian Sami street artist and educator B *Quiwe Baarsen (died 1627), Norwegian Sami shaman *Astrid Båhl (born 1959), Norwegian Sami artist, designed the Sami flag *Samuel Balto (1861–1921), director, Norwegian Sami * Katarina Barruk (born 1994), Swedish Sami singer who performs in the Ume Sami language *Ellen-Sylvia Blind (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Afanasyeva
Nina Yeliseyevna Afanasyeva (russian: Нина Елисеевна Афанасьева; pseudonym, sjd, Е̄льцэ Нӣна Афанасьева, Jeel'ce Niina Afanas'jeva; born February 1, 1939) is a Russian-Sami politician and language activist. Biography Nina Yeliseyevna Afanasyeva was born on February 29, 1939 in the village of Varsino. Her parents were Sami, and she grew up with the Kildin Sámi language as her mother tongue. In 1963, she completed her studies in pedagogy at the Institute of the Peoples of the North in Leningrad and worked until 1983 as a teacher of Russian language and literature as well as German in adult education in the cities of Apatity and Murmansk. Since 1980, Afanasyeva has been working on the conservation and development of the endangered Sami languages on the Kola Peninsula. She is co-author of the first Kildin Sami-Russian dictionary, which was published in 1985 under the editorship of Rimma Kurutsch. In addition to the dictionary, Afanasy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Arne Brekke
Leif Arne Brekke (born 12 March 1977) is a Norwegian football defender who most recently played for Modum FK. He has played in the Norwegian Premier League for Tromsø IL.Tromsø IL bio After joining IF Skarp in 2001, he played 200 matches in a row in the Second Division (third tier). He grew up in , and is the brother of fellow footballer Jan Egil Brekke. He has played for the Sápmi national football team
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Jon Henrik Fjällgren
Jon Henrik Mario Fjällgren (born 26 April 1987) is a Swedish-Sámi singer and ''jojkare'', an interpreter of Sámi joik. He was the winner of ''Talang Sverige 2014'', the Swedish version of ''Got Talent''. Upon winning the competition he released the music album ''Goeksegh''. He has participated in Melodifestivalen four times, in 2015 he placed second, in 2017 he placed third, and in 2019 and 2023 he placed fourth. Biography Fjällgren was born in Cali, Colombia. At a very young age, he lived in a Native Colombian village and later moved to an orphanage. Fjällgren later was adopted by a Swedish Sami family, and became part of a ''siida'' community in Mittådalen, a reindeer foraging area where he worked as a reindeer herder. Fjällgren has revealed in several interviews that he was bullied as a child because he had darker skin and was a Sami. The bullying stopped as he reached teenaged years. Fjällgren started singing local traditional songs when he was 14. He gained expo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Eskilsson
The Arjeplog blasphemy trial of 1687 took place in Arjeplog in 1687 against two Sami, Erik Eskilsson and Amund Thorsson, who were put on trial accused of blasphemy for being followers of the Sam shamanism during the Swedish Christianization of the Sámi people in the late 17th century. Their case was a notable one and is often referred to in Sami history. During this period, the Sami people generally kept two religions in parallel; they attended church regularly, but still maintained the Sami religion at home. Erik Eskilsson, as well as Thorsson, belonged to the more wealthy of the Sami in Norrbotten and thereby felt secure to maintain their religion due to the taxes they could afford to give to the crown. During a Christian sermon, where the vicar preached against the Sami religion, Eskilsson and Thorsson commented that they found the hostility against the Sami religion strange, and that they would obviously not abandon the faith of their ancestors. Afterward, the vicar visited them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Erke
Elisabeth Erke (born 8 September 1962) is a Norwegian Sami educator and politician. Biography Erke was educated as a teacher at Alta Teacher's College in the 1980s, before continuing her education in special education, mentoring, and coaching. Her master's in pedagogy (on politics and feminism) was at the University of Oslo. She began her political activity when, as a teacher student in Alta, she sat on the national board for Norwegian Teacher Students. From 1997 to 2001, she was a deputy representative at the Sami Parliament, at that time, for the Center Party. She transitioned to the AP in 2003. Afterwards, she was elected to the municipal council in Tana, where, from 2017, she is deputy mayor. From 1998 to 2012 she lived part of her time in Switzerland. She worked in elementary school in Akershus, Oslo, and Tana. She also served as principal at the private New School in Oslo. From 2013, she has worked as museum director in the Tana Museum. From 2017, Erke has been a member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edel Hætta Eriksen
Edel Hætta Eriksen (born 17 October 1921) is a Norwegian schoolteacher and politician. Biography She was born in Guovdageaidnu Kautokeino to Klemet Klemetsen Hætta and midwife Berit Karen Olsdatter Erke. She worked as schoolteacher from 1949 to 1969, and headmaster from 1969 to 1977. She was appointed as the first director of , from 1977 to 1989. She was a board member of the Norwegian Sami Association 1968–1975, a member of the Saami Council from 1956 to 1963 and from 1974 to 1977, and a member of the Arts Council Norway The Arts Council Norway ( no, Norsk kulturråd, often shortened to ''Kulturrådet'') is the official arts council for Norway. Based in Oslo, it is a Norwegian state institution created in 1965 as a result of a parliamentary decision in 1964. Art .... She was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1988. She turned 100 in October 2021. Selected works *''Låkkangirj'ji sámi-ja dárogillii'' (2 volumes 1965/1970) *''Muitalusat ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Andersen Eira
Sandra Andersen Eira (born 21 June 1986) is a fisher and Norwegian Sámi politician from Russenes, Porsanger, Finnmark, Norway. As of 2022, she is serving as a medic, while an enlistee in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. From 2017 to 2021, she served as a member of the Sámi Parliament of Norway (Sametinget), elected to the Norwegian Sámi Association from the Ávjovárri constituency. Following the end of her term in the Sametinget, she spent a year commuting between the United States and Norway, including expanding her fishing business and being featured in a documentary titled ''Sea Sisters''. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she volunteered for the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine, joining a mixed-British and American ranger squad; she worked as a medic on the squad. As of December 2022, she was still part of the International Legion fighting for Ukraine; she has been back to Norway t leastone time, for a few days.Børre Haugli. https://www.dag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berit Oskal Eira
Berit Oskal Eira (1 March 1951 – 26 January 2021) was a Sami politician for the Labour Party. She was elected to the Sami Parliament of Norway in 2001. From 2005 to 2007, while the second cabinet Stoltenberg Stoltenberg's Second Cabinet was the Government of Norway from 17 October 2005 to 16 October 2013. It was a coalition between the Labour Party, the Socialist Left Party and the Centre Party, known as the Red–Green Coalition. On 9 Septembe ... held office, she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion. References Berit Oskal Eira- regjeringen.no 1951 births 2021 deaths Labour Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Sámi Parliament of Norway Politicians from Tromsø Norwegian Sámi politicians Norwegian state secretaries Norwegian women state secretaries {{Norway-politician-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berit Marie Eira
Berit Marie Eira (born 6 March 1968) is a Norwegian Sami reindeer owner and politician who works in Kautokeino municipality. She represents the "Reindeer herder's list" party. Biography Berit Marie Persdtr Eira was born 6 March 1968. She studied commerce and economics, receiving a 3-year bachelor's degree in reindeer husbandry. In 2014, Eira highlighted her opposition to the Norwegian government's reindeer husbandry policy, as she refused to accept the demand to reduce the herd flock despite the state's threats of coercive fines. In 2017, as the first representative from the Flyttsamelista, she became a member of the Sámi Parliament of Norway. This happened after the Sami election, when the four parties of the Norwegian Sámi Association, the Center Party, Åarjel-Saemiej Gielh, and the Flyttsamelista joined forces to create a 'majority government'. According to the agreement, Eira is in the council for the first two years of the parliamentary term, and Ellinor Jåma El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanne Grete Einarsen
Hanne Grete Einarsen (born 1966) is a Norwegian-Sami artist. Biography Hanne Grete Einarsen was born in 1966. She was raised on Skjervøy in Nord-Troms. She studied at the Western Academy of Fine Arts (1991-95) and the University of Bergen (2001-2003). Einarsen studied to be a graphic designer and worked mainly with woodcuts. After a spinal cord injury in 2013, she hired others to produce her graphic expressions. Since 2006, she has been organizing and running, together with Trond Egil Nilsen, the Snefjord Highland Gathering festival in Snefjord. The main purpose of the festival is to disseminate Scottish and Sami arts and culture. This is done by arranging exhibitions and workshops by and with Sami artists, as well as displaying the Scottish cultural games Highland Games. The festival is held in mid-July each year. In 2010, the Sami Artists' Association awarded her the John Savio Scholarship, which is presented to Sami artists who have excelled. In 2010, she and her husband, Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Edmondson
Monica L. Edmondson (born in Gällivare) is a Sami woman known for glass art. She attended Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an .... One of her works is called 100 Migratory. References External links Monica Edmondson site Australian National University alumni People from Gällivare Municipality Glass artists Women glass artists Swedish Sámi people Sámi artists {{Sweden-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maja Dunfjeld
Maja Hilma Dunfjeld (born 20 March 1947) is a Sami people, South Sami researcher and duodji craftswoman who lives in Harran, Norway, Harran in central Norway. A graduate of the University of Tromsø, since 1980 she has provided consultative services on duodji art and has lectured at the Duodji Institute, part of the Nordic Sámi Institute. Dunfjeld was born and raised in Namdalen in Nord-Trøndelag. Specializing in duodji, she earned a doctorate in history of art from the University of Tromsø. Her thesis, '' Tjaalehtjimmie: form og innhold i sørsamisk ornamentikk'', has been published. She was the first to study duodji as her main subject at the National Teachers College for Arts and Crafts in Oslo. In addition to her lecturing and consultative work, she has offered advice on the decoration of a number of public buildings. Publications * * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunfjeld, Maja 1947 births Norwegian Sámi people Sámi artists People from Grong University of Tromsø alum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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