Sámi Americans
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Sámi Americans are Americans of Sámi descent, who originate from Sápmi, the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. The term Lapp Americans has been historically used, though lapp is considered derogatory by the Sámi.
Sámi reindeer herder Ellen Sara holding her baby sister Berit. Alaska, circa 1906.
Sámi children photographed at Ellis Island by Augustus Frederick Sherman, c. 1910.
Sámi reindeer herders of the Lapland-Yukon Relief Expedition, 1898, Seattle.
Sámi milking reindeer, Port Clarence, Alaska, 1900
Nordic and Scandinavian Americans
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Nordic and Scandinavian Americans are Americans of Scandinavian and/or Nordic ancestry, including Danish Americans, Faroese Americans, Finnish Americans, Greenlandic Americans, Icelandic Americans, Norwegian Americans, and Swedish Americans. Also included are persons who reported 'Scandinavian' ancestry on their census. According to 2021 census estimates, there are approximately 9,365,489 people of Scandinavian ancestry in the United States.
Group of Sámi reindeer herders, 1898, Seattle.