Significant connections have been found between disadvantageous historical factors like discrimination and assimilation pressure and unfavourable public health factors such as high rates of suicide, unemployment, substance abuse, low socio-economic status, and somatic diseases like CVD, diabetes, obesity, cancer and early mortality in indigenous populations . However, compared to other indigenous populations, these public health marker rates are better in the total population of the Sami living in Norway. Where Sami differ to the worse from the majority population in Norway is in their disposition to discrimination, bullying and violence . Nonetheless, social support within a group, in particular a cultural group, constitutes a significant socio-cultural resilience factor, as has been established for example Holocaust survivors. Social support can provide a strong protective factor against the long-term consequences of trauma . Insofar is the hypothesis that belonging to a specific cultural subgroup may have served as e protective factor evident.