in an extremely northern part of europe there is a place called lapland. it is not a country, but parts of four countries. the people who lived there are called lapps by outsiders. they call themselves "sami". the lapps of these four countries lived there long before the countries of northway, sweden, finland, and russia were created. there were several kinds of lapp people. some lived by the ocean and lived mostly on fish. another group lived along the warmer rivers. these people did a little farming, hunting, and fishing to live.