Sam,+Jessica

=Sami (Lapps) – Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia= =By: Sam and Jess=

Beliefs:
====The Sami people believe that all living things like people and trees had souls. A noaidi (a priest or shaman) is a person who had access to the spiritual and the material world. The tradition that the noaidi would perform to consult the dead was to beat on a magic drum while in a trance and he would say a special chant called juoigan in Sami language.====

Values:
The Sami people strongly value their family, relationships, and their culture. They have not let the outside world influence them too much because they strongly believe in staying true to their people. Each Sami person performs a special song that is called a yoik and there is no recorded yoiks or research on them because they are secret and private to their family and partners. This also shows how important their family and relationships are.

Languages:
The Sami or "Sapmela" have several languages in which they use, basically all the "Finno-Ugric Languages", This would include Hungarian, Finnish, Karelian, and many other "Northern" languages. The main language they use is Hungarian. But that doesn't always mean they can all understand eachother. One Sami can not understand a fellow Sami speaking another dialect.

Behaviors:
They have nuclear family homes. They are close-nit families and pay a great deal of attention paid to the children. They also wear brightly colored traditional clothing with recognizable bands of bright red and yellow patterns against a deep blue wool or felt. The girls and women traditionally wear draped fringe scarfs around their shoulders.

How Globalization Effected Their People:
Globalization has only slightly effected the Sami, they have held on to their culture more than most cultures in Europe and have yet to fully abandon traditional life for a modern way of life. They now have to follow rituals that in we here in America would recognize as our own. Where the Sami live requires surnames and the Lutheran church pressured the Sami to give their children christian names. The Sami resisted for years, keeping the tradition of no surnames and naming their children after recently deceased elders or infants. They are the type of culture to hold onto their way of life.

Citations:
Primary Sources: "Briefing: Sami." //Herald// [Glasgow, Scotland] 9 Jan. 2002: 13. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 28 Aug. 2012. This citation is important because it gave the layout to the Sami culture for us. Also it provided information of their language. "Countries and Their Cultures." //Sami//. Avadameg, 2012. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. . This is important because there is a lot of information on this website that explains the culture of the Sami. It didn't just include the culture, it included everything about them. Secondary sources: "Sami People." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Aug. 2012. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. . This important because it has a great deal of general information if you wanted to learn a little more. This is not site to base all of your information off of. "An Introduction to the Sami People." //An Introduction to the Sami People.// N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. . This is important because it has a little bit of a speech given by an actual Sami person. This is special if we wanted to know how the Sami people think.