The Search for a Past: The Prehistory of the Indigenous Saami in Northern Coastal Sweden
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The ancestors of the Saami occupied the north Swedish coast during prehistoric times.

  
 

2


These Saami were displaced from the region in the fourteenth century by Swedish settlers, the Church, the State and Hanseatic fishing and mercantilism.
 

3


They moved inland where they were forced into a greater dependency on reindeer and, through State intervention in the 16th century, nomadism.

 

4


These people were the ancestors of the Ume-Saami speaking people.
Saami reindeer herders with sleds and reindeer in the snow

 

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