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The Sami are the indigenous people of an area Scandinavia which today includes parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. Policies over the late 1800s and early 1900s in some of the countries were designed to suppress or eliminate the Sami and their culture and languages. A Finnish Sami Parliament was established in law in 1975 and opened in 1996. A Swedish Sami Parliament opened in 1993. No formal Sami Russian Parliament yet exists.
