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Found in Alaska, These Blue Beads Could Be the Oldest Evidence of European Goods in North America
Gizmodo ^ | 02/07/2021 | George Dvorsky

Posted on 02/08/2021 10:43:13 PM PST by BenLurkin

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To: Red Badger
"They could have come from the Scandinavian peoples, Laps, etc in trade...............

The Sami People don't like being called Laps or Laplanders.

"The Sámi people (/ˈsɑːmi/; also spelled Sami or Saami) are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula within the Murmansk Oblast of Russia. The Sámi have historically been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, but these terms are regarded as offensive by some Sámi people, who prefer the area's name in their own language, "Sápmi".[8] Sámi ancestral lands are in the Volga region, in present-day Russia, like other Uralic peoples.[9] Their traditional languages are the Sámi languages, which are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family.

21 posted on 02/09/2021 7:42:18 AM PST by blam
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My grampa said my gramma was from Lapland. Where Oklahoma lapped over into Arkansas. She didn’t like it either.


22 posted on 02/09/2021 7:45:16 AM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Beware the media industrial complex )
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but these terms are regarded as offensive by some Sámi people,


stop eating the agenda. How many are offended? one or two?


23 posted on 02/09/2021 7:45:41 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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