• Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz
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    That’s just crazy to me. Remembers me one time I was in Canada, and we were visiting a museum with First Nation People depicted.

    A woman I was with asked me “So, do you also have First Nations in Europe?”

    Well…

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      We have the Sami in Sweden/Norway/Finland/Russia.

      They where treated like shit here as well… not genocide bad, but forcefull eradication of culture/language/religion during the 20th century bad.

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      Maybe the Basque are sorta culturally first nations. The language they speak is not related to any other language spoken in Europe. It’s the only surviving language that descended from pre-indo-European languages of prehistoric Europe.

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      Yes. I am a sami, what you would call “first nation”. There are many, many other kinds of indigenous peoples here in the Nordics

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        I’m very passionate about the Sami and very interested in their culture. There’s no doubt they are a historically oppressed people and indigenous to Sapmi.

        But let’s be rigorous here. They weren’t in Europe before everyone else like the First Nations in Canada. The Sami arrived in Europe, from the Urals in the 2nd millenium BC. By this time the Indo-Europeans and their languages were already spreading through Europe. The Neolithic farmers who mixed with the Indo-Europeans were there since the 7th millenium BC. The hunter gatherers they mixed with…were there since before the last ice age.

        You could make the case that the Basques are our first nations. That would be true of their language and culture. But the fact is, genetically, they are pretty much the same as their neighbors due to millenia of intermixing and contact.