[blam]

Those were my Saami relatives.

I never got 40 acres and a mule. (or a casino)

[blam]

GGG Ping.

The genetics of the Saami people and their language

"Some Para-Saamis could for instance have been kept as slaves by the Uralo-Saamis. (We note that the word orja (oarje, etc.) means 'slave' in Finnish but 'south' and 'west' in various Saami dialects.) "

"Finally, where did the Para-Saamis come from? Like the Basques (also with exceptionally low frequency of gene B) they seem to be remnants of a pre-Indo-European people. During part of the latest glaciation they may have been living on refuges on the oceanic brim of the Scandinavian Peninsula, such as nowadays exist on the coast of Greenland. In any case, they seem to have been isolated from other human groups for thousands of years.

[Albion Wilde]

Slave trade in Eastern Europe gradually faded, as the control exercised by the emerging structure of European states became stronger. The spreading of Christianity also caused a decline in slave trade during the medieval period. Slave trade within Europe declined already in the early medieval period, but in regions bordering on Islamic countries, slave trade continued up until the pre-modern period.

[Red_Devil 232]

For a long time the Sami were an oppressed people and their culture was in danger of dying out. Today the Sami stand stronger than most other aboriginal people in the world. Could it be because they valued actual WORK and self reliance?

[Tijeras_Slim]

The place to get blondes is Univision. The telaenovela is their natural habitat.

[vladimir998]

Old news - and old research: http://books.google.com/books/about/Slavery_and_Society_in_Medieval_Scandina.html?id=C2JsQgAACAAJ

[BwanaNdege]

Gooolllleeee!

I had no idea my antebellum Georgia ancestors kept slaves and raised cotton that far away! I guess after their blonde slaves had picked the fields clean they loaded up the wagon and hauled it to the cotton gin... er, over there, make that the cotton vodka, right?

After all, no one in the whole wide world ever kept slaves except for every one of them white folks in the Deep South.

/s

[Robwin]

Oh, c'mon. Everyone knows the only people ever, anywhere, or at any time to experience slavery were blacks captured in Africa by white Europeans.

What we have here is just another academic fraud seeking to puff up his curriculum vitae.

[Monkey Face]

Me too, NOT!