What is Sami Americans?
{{Infobox ethnic group |group = Sami Americans |image = |caption = |population = '''945'''<ref name=ancestry2000>{{cite web|format=XLS|url=https://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/ancestry/ancestry_q_by_DAC_2000.xls|title= Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000|work=U.S. Census Bureau|date=22 January 2007|access-date=11 February 2016}}</ref> |popplace = [[Alaska]]{{·}}[[Midwestern United States|Midwest]] |langs = [[English language|English]]{{·}}[[Sami languages]]{{·}}[[Norwegian language|Norwegian]]{{·}}[[Swedish language|Swedish]]{{·}}[[Finnish language|Finnish]]{{·}}[[Russian language|Russian]] |rels = [[Christianity]]{{·}}[[Sami shamanism]] }} '''Sami Americans''' are [[Americans]] of [[Sámi]] descent, who originate from [[Sapmi]], the northern regions of [[Norway]], [[Sweden]], [[Finland]], and the [[Kola Peninsula]] of [[Russia]]. ''Lapp Americans'' is sometimes used, but ''lapp'' is considered derogatory by the Sami. It has been estimated that there are 30,000 people who are of Sami ancestry living in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baiki.org/content/about.htm|title=About the Sami|work=Báiki: The International Sami Journal|date=2001|access-date=11 February 2016|archive-date=10 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810025907/http://baiki.org/content/about.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{European Americans}} [[Category:Ethnic groups in the United States]] {{US-stub}}