Happy Sámi National Day Everyone!
Here at saamisupplies.com we would like to acknowledge and celebrate the Sámi people of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
It’s been on my bucket list to be in Norway for this celebration and to attend the Sámi Jokkmokk market in Sweden where thousands of visitors gather for Sámi markets, concerts and exhibitions. This event has been going on since 1605!
If you are not familiar with this day please check out the description and links below.
The Sámi National Day[a] is an ethnic national day for the Sámi (Saami) people that falls on February 6, the date when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway.[1] The congress was the first time that Norwegian and Swedish Sámi came together across national borders to work on finding solutions to common problems.
In 1992[1] at the 15th Sámi Conference in Helsinki, Finland, a resolution was passed that Sámi National Day should be celebrated on February 6 to commemorate the first Sámi congress in 1917, that Sami National Day is for all Sámi, regardless of where they live, and on that day the Sámi flag should be flown and the Sámi anthem sung in the local Sámi language. The first time Sami National Day was celebrated was in 1993,[1] when the International Year of Indigenous People was proclaimed open in Jokkmokk, Sweden by the United Nations.
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