Sentence examples for the sami act from inspiring English sources

The Sami Act of 1987 sought to enable the Sami people "to safeguard and develop their language, culture, and way of life" and created the Sameting, the Sami Parliament, the business of which, according to the constitution, is "any matter that in the view of the parliament particularly affects the Sami people".

Although Sami is not a national language of Finland like Finnish and Swedish, its status as a regional minority language is guaranteed by the Sami Language Act (2004).

The act recognized in particular that the Sami people, through protracted traditional use of the area, had acquired individual and collective ownership of the area and the right to use its land and water.

Most of the Sami homeland is owned by the state and large areas of it are supposedly protected under the Finnish Reindeer Herding Act.

"It gives hope to the Sami people".

It has also become part of the Sami oral history.

The Sami languages are related to Finnish, with North Sami being the most widely spoken, by almost four-fifths of the Sami population.

In northern Norway the Sami maintain a distinct culture.

The Sami languages contain many Scandinavian and some Russian loanwords.

The Sami people refer to their homeland as Sapmi.

"The Sami are like pastoralists all over the world.